Learning on Urban Disaster Risk in the Caribbean: Summary of Findings

Oxfam’s portfolio of urban disaster risk reduction projects in the Caribbean region are at the forefront of current practice. They offer an opportunity to review outputs, practice and lessons learned for Oxfam and the wider DRR community. This report aims to take that opportunity. Specifically it presents a review of DRR work in four urban contexts:

• Inner-city settlements in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic (Intermón Oxfam projects 2007-currrent) with The European Commission
• Peri-urban settlements around Georgetown, Guyana (Oxfam projects 2006-2009) with The European Commission
• The municipality of Cap-Haitien, Haiti (Oxfam projects between 2003 and 2009) with The European Commission
• Metropolitan region of Port au Prince, Haiti (Oxfam projects from 2006-current) with Government of Haiti/World Bank.

This presentation was given at the II Session of the Regional Platform on 15-­17 March 2011 and provides an overview of key findings.