A community-oriented climate change adaptation plan is being created for Sea Cow’s Bay. The draft plan is the primary outcome of a Climate Smart Community Disaster Management Workshop that was hosted here by the Department of Disaster Management in collaboration with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA). The workshop is one of the outputs included under the Mainstreaming climate Change in Disaster Management Project Phase II (CCDM-II) through which the DDM has obtained funding for the piloting of the SMART School initiative at the three schools located in Sea Cow’s Bay. The workshop sought to help participants understand the cause and likely impacts of climate change and its linkage to disaster risk reduction as well as identify the specific vulnerabilities within the community and the strategies to enhance resilience. The workshop fits directly within the realm of actions to be undertaken as part of the Virgin Islands Comprehensive Disaster management strategy and Programming Framework. These strategic actions speak specifically to reducing vulnerability and enhancing community-based disaster risk reduction and establishing improved linkages between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The objectives of the workshop also dovetails with the DDM’s concept of a SMART community which uses Sustained Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilient techniques to resist, absorb and/or accommodate the impact of hazards and climate change. To read more about this, visit the DDM website via the following link. bviddm/index.php?action=article&id=1487
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:54:17 +0000
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