Did you know...
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...that Trinidad and Tobago recently hosted a natural disaster training
exercise to practice response to an earthquake of significant magnitude?
Fuerzas Aliadas Humanitarias (FA-HUM) is a mission rehearsal exercise
aimed at testing and improving regional and national disaster response
capabilities within Central America and the Caribbean Basin in order to
assist countries with building sustainable capabilities for executing
humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. The FA-HUM initiative
includes the participation of military and civilian personnel from
Central and South America, the Caribbean, Canada, Great Britain and the
United States, as well as representatives of international
organizations.
Between 1991 and 2010, the occurrence of natural disasters increased by
30% in the Americas with over 1,600 disasters recorded. Disaster-related
losses between 2001 and 2010 exceeded US$ 600 billion and affected
approximately 120 million people.
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Paragraph 60, Fifth Summit of the Americas: “We commit to improving regional cooperation and strengthening our national technical and institutional capacity for disaster reduction, prevention, preparedness and response, rehabilitation, resilience, risk reduction, impact mitigation, and evaluation. We will strengthen our monitoring, surveillance, communications and early warning systems and will encourage the sharing of information and research on disasters…” |
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