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Title: CEPREDENAC Coordination Centre for Natural Disasters Prevention in Central America


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CEPREDENACCoordination Centre for Natural
Disasters Prevention in Central America
  • CEPREDENACS AOR TOWARDS
  • DISASTER REDUCTION
  • Interoperable Regional Humanitarian Assistance
    and
  • Natural Disaster Seminar
  • June 16 20 2003
  • Geronimo J. Giusto-Robelo
  • Executive Secretary

2
Council of Representatives
Belice
Dominican Republic
3
Milestones
Armed Conflict
4
Cepredenacs Log
5
CEPREDENACNational Agencies -- Commissions
  • SINAPRED
  • CNE
  • COPECO
  • SINAPROC
  • MIREX
  • COEN
  • SNET
  • CONRED

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CEPREDENAC National Agencies -- Commissions
  • National System for the Prevention, Mitigation
    and Disaster Attention
  • (SINAPRED)
  • http//www.sosnicaragua.gob.ni
  • Emergency National Committee of Costa Rica
  • (CNE)
  • http//www.cne.go.cr
  • Permanent Commission for Contingency
  • (COPECO) Honduras
  • http//www.copeco.hn
  • National System for the Civil Protection of
    Panama
  • (SINAPROC)
  • http//www.c-com.net.pa/snpce

Foreign Relations Ministry, Rep. of El Salvador
http//www.rree.gob.sv National Emergency
Committee of El Salvador (COEN) El
Salvador http//www.coen.gob.sv National Service
of Territorial Studies SNET - http//www.snet.gob.
sv National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction
of Guatemala (CONRED) Guatemala http//www.conred.
org
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CEPREDENACS OBJECTIVES
  • Art. 3 Constitutive Agreement of CEPREDENACs,
    establish the followings objectives
  • Promote and coordinate international cooperation
  • Promote the exchange of information and
    experience among member states and other regions,
  • technical advisory regarding prevention in order
    to reduce natural disasters, and
  • improve decision making process for planning and
    management in the Central American region.

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CEPREDENACS RESPONSABLITIES
  • Article 4 establishes the following
    responsibilities
  • Among Member States, CEPREDENAC will keep a
    constant ongoing exchange of information,
    technical support, training, advisory in
    prevention and preparation in order to reduce
    natural disasters. throughout activities such as
    courses, seminars, specialization programs,
    scholarships, professional interchange,
    instruments donations, observation stations,
    etc., and equitably channel and or distribute
    financial and technical support according to each
    country needs.

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FUNCTIONS
  • Constantly exchange of information , technical
    assistance, training and advice of prevention and
    mitigation
  • equitably channel and or distribute financial and
    technical support according to each country
    needs.

10
REGULAR PROGRAM
  • Program addressed to accomplish the mandate of
    the Members States
  • Actions toward to
  • Promote Prevention.
  • Coordination of common activities in this area.
  • Know-how exchange between the countries.
  • Merge actions that need integrative approach.

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Mandates
Coordination
Exchange
Integration
Promotion
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Regional Promotion National Coordination
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Support Regional Initiatives
  • Within the Strategic Framework and the
    Quinquennium Activities
  • SE-CEPREDENAC carries out the PRRD, through out a
    series of projects that focus 5 main areas of the
    Strategic Framework, such as
  1. Institutional strengthening
  2. Information and Investigation Early Warning
    Systems.
  1. Sector Approach Strategies
  2. Strengthening Local Capacities in Risk
    Management
  3. Mutual Assistance in Disaster Situations

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Necessary Mechanisms
  • Support mutual assistance between countries of
    the Region
  • Share equipment, resources, knowledge to respond
    to disasters
  • International Cooperation Agreements (Chancery)
    Manual of Ministries of Foreign Affairs all
    Central American Countries
  • Technical support of Natural Disaster Managers
    in various countries (emergency offices)
    Technical Handbooks (Manuals)

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Mechanism of Mutual Cooperation on Disasters
  • Defines protocols of assistance
  • Between the members
  • Between the members and the international
    cooperation
  • Defines procedures for regional coordination
    (notifications, alerts)
  • Defines Scenarios and protocol activation
    Conditions
  • Describes strengthening points

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Manuals of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs
  • CEPREDENAC works with all Foreign Affairs Offices
  • Developed a Regional Foreign Ministry Manual
    (defines Chancery actions as both being an
    assisting or assisted country)
  • Updating or concluding of National Manuals
  • Concept of an Assisted or Assisting Country

18
Regional Mutual Aid Mechanisms in Response to
Disasters
  • Prepared by CEPREDENACs National Commissions
  • Represents the first Regional Disaster
    Cooperation Tool
  • Includes sharing resources among countries

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Mutual Aid Assistance Mechanism in Disaster
Coordinated Cooperation Mechanisms for Disaster
Response
  • Requested by the Security Commission
  • Includes the General Framework
  • Introduction of the concepts of Assisted and
    Assisting Country

Regional Mechanism for Mutual Assistance in
Disaster Management
Foreign Affairs Manual
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General Consistency
  • Strategic Framework

Coordination Cooperation Mechanism for Disaster
Response
Regional Mechanism for Mutual Assistance in
Disaster
Disaster Reduction Regional Plan
Foreign Affairs Regional Manual
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Civil Military Coordination
  1. The Superior Council of the Central American
    Armed Forces Conference CFAC. Integrated by
    Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
    Costa Rica Panama has civilian observers.
  2. CFAC III Ordinary Meeting, Act No. 005/99, the
    Humanitarian and Rescue Unit, UHR was created and
    on officially presented on May 24, 2000.

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Working with International Cooperation
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More about CEPREDENAC.
www.cepredenac.org
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