UNICEFWHOUNESCO /LINKSCEPREDENACCCADCAICCATIECollaborates with others to reduce theobstacles that poverty, violence, disease anddiscrimination place in the way of children.The directing and coordinating authority forhealth within the United Nations system. It isresponsible for playing a leadership role inglobal health matters, set the agendafor health research, setting standards,articulating policy options based onevidence, provide technical supportto countries and monitoring and assessinghealth trendsThe LINKS project is an interdisciplinaryinitiative of UNESCO consisting of expertisein natural science, social and human science,culture, communication andinformation, and education. The followingUNESCO offices are involved in theproject LINKS: Apia (Samoa), Bangkok(Thailand), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Hanoi(Vietnam), Moscow (Russia), Montevideo(Uruguay) and San Jose (Costa Rica).Promote activities, projects and programmesthat lead to disaster risk reduction thatcause human and economic losses causedby socio-natural factors.Contribute to sustainable development inCentral America, strengthening the regime ofcooperation and integration forenvironmental management.Has implemented programmes that seekto exercise the rights andhistorical recognition of the autonomy andself-determination of indigenous peoples inCentral America.Improves human welfare and reduces ruralpoverty through education, research andtechnical cooperation, promoting thesustainable management of agricultureand natural resources.¿? ¿?¿? ¿?Positive Yes LINKS has generated severalgood practices andlessons learned.Positive Yes In its latest Strategic Plan hasincluded the importance ofknowledge and wisdomof indigenous peoples.¿? ¿?¿? ¿?¿? ¿?FLACSO Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences ¿? ¿?CIAT Eco-efficient agriculture for the poor ¿? ¿?INCAEINBIOActively promotes the integral developmentof the countries it serves, developingleaders for key sectors, improving theirpractices, attitudes and values through:Research, teaching and disseminationof modern management concepts andtechniques.Strengthen analytical capabilities andunderstanding of economic, politicaland social phenomena.Facilitating dialogue, understanding andcollaboration between individuals,sectors and countries.Promote greater awareness of thevalue of biodiversity to achieve itsconservation and improve the qualityof human life.¿? ¿?¿? ¿?38
SE-CONREDCivilProtectionSNETCCNISCOPECOSEDINAFROHSINAPREDINETERThe national body of Guatemalaresponsible for disaster reduction, workingbefore, during and after a disaster.Coordination in El Salvador toimplement plans for managing ContingenciesPlans and control of emergency operations.Conduct studies and monitoring of processesand phenomena of nature, environment andsociety, with direct and indirectrelationship with the regional dynamics andthe likelihood of the occurrence of losses andeconomic social and environmental damage.Provide references asto territorial threats, vulnerabilities,capacities and opportunities toimprove regional decisionmakingfor sustainable development andhuman security.The CCNIS is the Salvadorian NationalIndigenous Coordinating Council. Foundedon November 15, 1992, a body whichcurrently brings together twenty-three at theNational Indigenous Organization (LencaIand Nahuatl Indigenous Peoples).The government agency in Honduras thatadopts policies and measures to serve thepopulation, rehabilitation and reconstructionof areas damaged by the impact of naturalphenomena, that affect economic activityand welfare of the population, and planand pursue other activities, toprevent negative consequences in areasof more incidences of these phenomena.The Secretariat of State in the Offices ofIndigenous and Afro-Honduran(SEDINAFROH), established by LegislativeDecree 203-2010 to find the economic,political and social, identity, of IndigenousPeoples and Afro-Honduran CA:Lenca, Miskitu, Tolupanes, Pech, Maya-Chortí, Tawahka and Afro descendantsof English-speaking islanders.In Nicaragua coordinates riskreduction caused by natural andanthropogenic natural phenomena.Generates and makes available to the wholesociety in Nicaragua, basic information(Cartography, cadastral, meteorological,hydrological, geological, etc.) and researchand studies of the physical environment thatcontributes to socio economic developmentand reduces vulnerability to naturaldisasters; and continuously monitors thehazards natural phenomena.39Positive Yes Has a HarmonizationCommission promotingthe harmonizationof knowledge and wisdom ofthe people in DRRprogramming in the country.Positive Maybe It is the focal pointand national platform of theHyogo Framework forAction. Might be interestedin strengthening and complywith the same agreement¿? NoPositive Yes Agrees to the creation of acommission forharmonization of knowledge.PositivePositiveYesYes¿? ¿?Positive Yes INETER a member ofthe NicaraguanAlliance on climate changeANACC, is a platformcompounded bygovernmental and nongovernmental agenciesUniversities, ResearchCenters, which deal with theissue of climate change in anintegrated way this is aneffort that is under
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