Acronyms
From HFA-PEDIA
List of acronyms commonly used in the Americas
ACS - Association of Caribbean States
AEC - Spanish acronym for ACS
BCPR - Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recover (of the UNDP)
BID - Spanish acronym for IADB
CADRI - Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative
CAF - Andean Development Community
CAN - Andean Community
CAPRA - Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment
CAPRADE - Andean Committee for Disaster Prevention and Relief
CARICOM - Caribbean Community
CCA - Common Country Assessment
CDERA - Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response
CDM - Clean Development Mechanism
CEPAL - Spanish acronym for ECLAC
CEPREDENAC - Center of Coordination for the Prevention of the Natural Disasters in Central America
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
COTED - Council for Trade and Economic Development
CPP - Caribbean Platforms Programme
CRED - Centre for Epidemiology of Disasters
DIPECHO - Disaster Preparedness European Community Host Organization
DRI - Disaster Risk Index
DRR - Disaster Risk Reduction
ECLAC - Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean
EIA - Environmental impact assessment
EIRD - Spanish acronym for ISDR
EM-DAT - OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
EWS - Early warning system
FLACSO - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences
FICR - Spanish acronym for IFRC
GDP - Gross domestic product
GFDRR - Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery
GIS - Geographic Information System
GRIP - Global Risk Identification Programme (UNDP)
HDI - Human Development Index
HFA - Hyogo Framework for Action
IACNDR - Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction (of the OAS)
IADB - Inter-American Development Bank
IANDM - Inter-American Network for Disaster Mitigation
IASP - Inter-American Strategic Plan for Policy on Vulnerability Reduction, Risk Management and Disaster Response
IATF/DR - Inter-agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction
IDH - Spanish acronym for HDI
IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
INDM - Inter-American Network for Disaster Mitigation
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ISDR - International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
MDGs - Millennium Development Goals
NGO - Non-governmental organization
OAS - Organization of American States
OCHA - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
OEA - Spanish acronym for OAS
OECS - Secretariat of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
OMS - Spanish acronym for WHO
ONG - Spanish acronym for NGO
OPS - Spanish acronym for PAHO
PAHO - Pan American Health Organization
PMA - Spanish acronym for WFP
PNUMA - Spanish acronym for UNEP
PREDECAN - Prevention and Mitigation in the Andean Community
PRRD - Regional Disaster Reduction Plan
PRSP - Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
REDLAC - Risk, Emergency and Disasters Task Force
SAT - Spanish acronym for EWS
SIG - Spanish acronym for GIS
UNDAF - United Nations Development Assistance Framework
UNDP - United Nations Development Program
UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFCC - United Nations Convention on Climate Change
UN/ISDR - United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
VCA - Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment
WCDR - World Conference for Disaster Reduction
WFP - World Food Programme
WHO - World Health Organization
WSSD - World Summit on Sustainable Development
