Caribbean Risk Management Initiative - Tools

These tools provide applications and methodologies involving the use of online technologies for disaster reduction, disaster management and climate-related initiatives.

The Caribbean Risk Management Initiative (CRMI) was launched by the UNDP’s Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) and Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC) in 2004 as an umbrella programme designed to build capacity across the Caribbean region for the management of climate-related risk.  The CRMI is led by the Cuba and Barbados and the OECS UNDP Country Offices, in close collaboration with partners and other UNDP Country Offices in the region.

Specifically, the CRMI aims to respond to the increase in disaster impact in the region through the integration of climate change adaptation in risk management. It facilitates knowledge networking and south-south cooperation in the wider Caribbean region and is implemented in the English, French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Countries engaged in activities are Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

The main objectives of the initiative are:

• Increased capacity for climate change adaptation
• Risk reduction and climate change adaptation integrated into development
• Increased investment in climate risk reduction projects