Comprehensive disaster management in the Caribbean: baseline study

This document provides a baseline on which a strategy for Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) within the Caribbean will be designed.  CDM has been defined under the DERMS project as including integrated management of all natural and human-induced hazards and involving management through all phases of the Disaster Management Cycle viz. Prevention and Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Restoration.  CDM engages the public and private sectors, civil society, urban and rural communities, and the general population in hazard prone areas.  CDM is therefore multi-hazard, and multi-sectoral in its application and is concerned primarily with integrating vulnerability assessment and risk reduction into development planning and management.