Georgetown: Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has commended the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency for their work in Comprehensive Disaster Management. In a message for the launch of the Caribbean Disaster Management (CDM) Strategy 2014-2024, which was held in Jamaica on Tuesday evening, Ambassador LaRocque referred to the organization as a regional champion and broker for comprehensive disaster management. He said since its inception, CDEMA played a sterling role as the Region’s premier organization for disaster risk management.
“Due to the efforts of CDEMA, there is now political awareness and support for disaster management and in particular the CDM Strategy and Framework across the Region, which has to date been through two iterations, corresponding to two implementation periods” Ambassador LaRocque said.
The Secretary General also used the opportunity to encourage support for CDEMA’s call to recognize the critical linkages between investment in the strengthening of the resilience of CARICOM countries and communities and reducing social and economic losses from hazard impacts.
He also encouraged participants to take ownership of the new CDM Strategy and to use the opportunity presented by the CDM Conference to participate in the development of an Implementation Plan that would guide the roll out of the Strategy and the achievement of the regional results to which it spoke.
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