Government Address Poverty

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Government Address Poverty

• the application of an integrated and
• multifaceted approach in specific depressed
• communities islandwide

• targeting certain vulnerable low-income
• populations

• physical and economic infrastructure dev.

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Sustainable Human Development

• The link is achieved through the inclusion of
• Human Capital
• SHD SD HD

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Natural Hazards Affecting Jamaica

• Floods

• Hurricanes

• Storm Surges

• Earthquakes

• Landslides

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Technological (man-made hazards)

• Hazardous Materials release

• Epidemics

• Plant and animal diseases

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Losses due to disasters
Economic losses caused by disasters (1988 - 1998)
Countries Loss
(USbillions) Worldwide
4,006 Caribbean Latin America
546 Jamaica 1
Source International Red Cross Planning
Institute of Jamaica
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Losses due to disasters
Effects of Hurricane Gilbert on Jamaica (1988)
USmillions

• Direct Damage to Island 956
• Sector Contribution To Losses
• Agriculture, Tourism and Indus. 478
• Housing 318
• Infrastructure 160

Source PIOJ
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Natural Hazards
Jamaica has had three (3) broad methods
for dealing with Natural Hazards

• Disaster preparedness and response measures

• Post-disaster recovery reconstruction
• measures

• Pre-disaster Mitigation Measures

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Mitigation Measures
Mitigation Measures are measures designed
to reduce future damage impacts, rather
than simply picking up the pieces

• Structural Mitigation

• Non-Structural Mitigation

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Catalyst for prioritising work on defining
a National Hazard Management Programme for
Jamaica which had a Mitigation Strategy was the
Jamaican experience in the Flood Rains of June,
1979 and Hurricane Allen in August,1980
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Jamaicas Mitigation Programme is comprised of
three (3) phases-
Phase I
Addressed short-term problems
Phase II
Work primarily in hazard-related problems eg.
High risk areas and building of a Hazard
Management Matrix.
Phase III
This phase has six (6) elements and is on-going
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Six (6) Elements of Phase III of the
Mitigation Strategy-
I. Data Collection and Risk Analysis II. Planning
and Regulations III. Private Sector
Support IV. Public Construction Investment
Decisions V. Structural Mitigation VI. Preparednes
s and Recovery
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Legal Authority

• THE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
• AND EMERGENCY
• MANAGEMENT ACT, 1993
• mitigation
• declaration of disaster area

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Impact of Mitigation Programme
1. Close relationship between agencies
and persons established
2. Ability to Sensitize
3. Provision of map of High Risk Area to be used
by specialized publics.
4. Significant work done in Flooding
5. Work done in Warning
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Current Work
i. Development of National Hazard
Mitigation Policy
ii. DIPECHO Project
ii. Other work
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GAPS
1. Database
2. Development Orders
3. Economic recognition of the Impact
of Disasters
4. Cost/benefit Analyses
5. Wider dissemination of work at the Community
level
6. Link to critical sectors
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Conclusions Recommendations

• Further Strengthening

• Greater work between Floods, hurricanes
  earthquakes

• Link to be recognised between SHD Mitigation

• Need to speedily complete and implement
  Mitigation Policy

• Greater training and exposure to other case
  studies

• CDMP Workshop in June could be a Regional one

• Public Education for Mitigation needs to be
  developed