International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)

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Editorial
	Disaster Risk Reduction as an Essential Part of Sustainable Development By Sálvano Briceño, Director ISDR Secretariat

Global ISDR
	The International Day for Disaster Reduction in 2001
	Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) Receives the 2001 United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction
	THE SECRETARY-GENERAL MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION “Countering Disasters, Targeting Vulnerability”
	Celebrating the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
	Outline for Cooperation with National Platforms INTER-AGENCY SECRETARIAT FOR THE ISDR

Disaster in the Region
	Earthquake in Southern Peru: A Test To Local And National Capacity
	Droughts: Not-So-Minor Disasters
	Damage Assessment – ECLAC Updates Its Manual for Estimating the Socio-Economic Effects of Natural Disasters
	Workshop: Lessons learned from the Earthquakes occurred in El Salvador in 2001

Contributions
	Community-Operated Early Warning Systems In Central America
	Program for Managing the Risk due to Natural and Anthropogenic Threaths in the Municipality of Pilón, Granma Province, Cuba.
	Seismic Prevention and Urban Development
	Public Communication: Small Formats Can Have a Big Impact on Disaster Prevention
	New Approaches for Risk Management

Partners in Action
	Caribbean Region Preparing for Climate Change
	World Forum on the Contribution of Latin America to the Universe of the 21st Century hosts Disaster Symposium: the Benefits of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disaster Reduction
	The International Research Centre for the El Niño Phenomenon (IRCEN)
	Innovative Communication Practices Convey Disaster Reduction Message to Central American Communities
	Programme for Flood Vulnerability Reduction and Development of Early Warning Systems in Minor River Basins in Central America
	Reducing the Vulnerability of the Transport Sector to Natural Hazards
	Humanitarian Logistics Systems Must Improve, Experts Say
	PREANDINO
	EDUCATION

Kids an Youth
	How to prepare Risk Maps

Multimedia
	Information for Vulnerability Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean
	CARDIN
	Improving Access to Health and Disaster Information a Progress Report
	Publications

ISDR Informs – a Magazine for Latin America and the Caribbean,
is produced by the Regional Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean, part of the UN Inter Agency Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Geneva.

The information and opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the policies of the ISDR Secretariat.

Credits:
Editor: Elina Palm
General Production: Margarita Villalobos Mora
Graphic Design: Mario Barrantes
Cover Design: Mario Barrantes
Photographs:EIRD, GFMC, R. Martorel, CRID, INDECI, OPS-OMS, PED/CR, J.C. Villagrán, SUMA.
Translation: Hermann Steffen, Roberto Prado
Printed by MasterLitho

The publication of “ISDR Informs” was made possible thanks to the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA ), as part of the Swedish contribution to the ISDR Secretariat regional work in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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ISDR Secretariat, United Nations
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