Guatemala
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HFA National Reports
National Report 2008 / HFA Monitor Online Report: National Progress Report 2008 (Spanish only)
National Report 2007: National Report on the Implementation of the HFA (2007) - Guatemala (Spanish)
National Report 2006: no reported
National Report 2005: no reported
National Report 2004: National Report in Preparation for WCDR (2004) – Guatemala
HFA National Platform for DRR
- Formalized in September 2009
In March 2009 Guatemala established the National Roundtable for Dialogue on Disaster Risk Reduction Management (Mesa Nacional de Diálogo en Gestión para la Reducción de Riesgo a Desastres) as a mechanism for strengthening the sectoral efforts surrounding DRR management. The National Roundtable for Dialogue on DRR Management provides the forum for government agencies, NGOs, civil society organizations, the private sector, academia and international cooperation agencies to come together.
The overall objective of the National Roundtable for DRR Management is to provide the arena for dialogue and convergence to support and sustain the achievement of concrete goals for increasing the resilience of Guatemala to disasters.
Specific objectives:
- Mechanism for multisectoral collaboration and coordination in order to achieve the HFA strategic goals and public policies such as, for example, the Policy for Social Development and Population, the 2009-2011 National Programme for Prevention, Mitigation and Response amd the Regional Disaster Reduction Plan.
- Facilitate the integration of DRR within policy, development planning and national programmes of the different sectors.
Through the leadership of the Executive Secretary of the Vice-Presidency of the Republic and the National Disaster Reduction Coordination Agency - CONRED, the National Roundable includes a commission for identifying and monitoring risk, a risk reduction commission, a commission for planning and institutional strengthening, as well as a commission for the financial strategy and working subcommissions.
(Source: Presented at the first meeting in recognition of the NP in Antigua, Guatemala from 22-24 September, 2009)
The Guatemalan Government officially launched the National Platform for DRR in September 2009 as Mesa Nacional de Diálogo (National Roundtable for Dialogue) in the Management for the Reduction of Disaster Risk in the Framework of ISDR”. The launching and first official meeting of the NP was preceded by a preparatory process that was six months long, and started with the establishment of a forum for discussion in March 2009. The National Table for Dialogue was formulated as an institutional entity that acts as:
- a) National Platform for the monitoring and evaluation of progress in the country in relation to the achievement of the HFA;
- b) National Commission as per Constitutive Agreement of CEPREDENAC; and
- c) National Multi – Sector Platform required to continue the National Programme for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation 2009-2011.
With the establishment of the National Roundtable for Dialogue in Guatemala, an opportunity is presented which allows the convergence of the Public Sector and Civil Society, from which consensus building regarding defining the priority initiatives that should be implemented in the country to decrease vulnerability, and increase socioeconomic and ecological resilience. The National Roundtable for Dialogue is presided over by the Vice President of the Republic and the Executive Secretariat of the Coordinating Body for Disaster Reduction (SE – CONRED). There is also a delegation for the political strategic level, where the coordinators and Commissions representatives constitute the Table; and finally, the operative, or development level. The focal point of the Roundtable for Dialogue is the Department for Integrative Risk Management, which belongs to the SE-CONRED.
In January 2009, under the political leadership of the Vice President of the Republic, and the technical leadership of SE-CONRED, the National Programme for disaster prevention and mitigation was designed and approved by the National Council of CONRED, and is planned for implementation from 2009 to 2011. This inter-institutional effort has allowed the country to rely on a programmatic and inter–institutional framework that integrates more than five key public sector institutions: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing, the Secretariat for Planning and Programming, and SEGEPL, amongst others.
To these alliances, were add the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the World Bank and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation – AECI-, as entities that support and strengthen the process.
The general objective in the National Roundtable for Dialogue in Guatemala is to become a venue for dialogue that sustains and supports the achievement of the concrete goals necessary for increasing resilience in Guatemala. The specific objectives are as follows:
- a) Monitor the advancement of HFA priorities; the policies of Social Development and Population; the agenda of the National Programme for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation 2009- 2011; the PPRD (Regional Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction, CEPREDENAC) and other sector policies linked to this area.
- b) Approve and continue executing plans to reach established indicators in the National
Programme for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, 2009- 2011.
- c) Develop two annual reports about advancement in the area of risk reduction management according to the commitments made.
- d) Identify priorities, within DRR management, to revise and include relevant actions in national policies and programmes.
- e) Become an entity for technical coordination for international cooperation programmes in the area of DRR management.
A process that sustains the basis of the NP
The reach of the NP in Guatemala has, in a certain sense, correlated to a series of changes in the vision and structures related to disaster risk management in Guatemala. In 2006, the Guatemalan Government approved the National Programme for Disaster Risk Management in Development Processes 2007–2012, which included inter–institutional activities related to not only disaster reduction but also to emergencies. This National Programme was an effort driven by the General Secretariat for Planning (SEGEPLAN), in coordination with SE–CONRED, and constituted the first national exercise in disaster risk reduction management.
In 2008, taking the national Programme for the Management of Disaster Risk Reduction in Development Processes 2007–2012 as a point of reference, the Guatemalan Government decided to develop the National Programme for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation 2009- 2011 with the objective of outlining medium and long term processes and also measurable and verifiable short term projects. This was approved in March 2009 under the political leadership of the Vice President of the Republic and the technical guidance of SE–CONRED.
National Platform structural and operative consolidation processes
Before the official launch of the Table for Dialogue, developed over a period of six months (March – June 2009), the current National Table for Dialogue for the Management of Disaster Risk Reduction was formed on the basis of three strategic commitments:
- An analysis of opportunities, that allows priority areas for dialogue to be established among key actors interested in the management of disaster risk reduction;
- Broadening of initiatives promoted by the national Programmes for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation 2009-2011, regarding the base of comprehensive identification of national priorities and their correlation to established guidelines in the Hyogo Framework for Action; and
- The elaboration of a protocol for operative functioning.
In addition to this preparatory process, various positive elements about the structures and processes of the national Table for Dialogue in Guatemala can be identified:
- 1. Its establishment clearly identifies roles and responsibilities articulated in an explicit vision and mission for the mechanism, anchored in the specific requirements of the country and integrated in sub-regional and international commitments in the area;
- 2. It includes strategic / political and technical / operative departments in its operation, that guarantee political influence and technical competency, with strong and complementary leaders;
- 3. Generates a protocol for operational functioning and develops a programmatic work structure with indicators, and defined system of monitoring;
- 4. It facilitates strategic alliances between the coordinating entity in the area (SE-CONRED) and with the body with overarching responsibilities (SEGEPLAN).
Another interesting characteristic that the NP for Guatemala illustrates is that from its outset, its work has been concentrated in the areas of prevention and mitigation, understanding that mechanisms and efforts surrounding preparedness and response are already fairly developed in the country.
This strategic approach could be an interesting element to be considered for the development of other NPs in the region. It is understood that once approaches of the challenges in prevention and mitigation are consolidated, they can later be integrated into the existent array of disaster preparedness and response mechanisms and actions.
(Source: National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas: A critical analysis of these processes five years after the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action; Working document - UNISDR Americas, 2010)
HFA National Focal Point:
Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (CONRED)
Address: Av.Hincapié 21-72, Zona 13, Ciudad de Guatemala
Phone:+(502) 2332-1189/3854-1411 / fax: (+502) 3326716
E-mail: informacion@conred.org.gt
Website: http://www.conred.org/
HFA Contact person:
Ing. Alejandro Maldonado, Executive Secretary (as of January 22, 2008)
Tel: (+502) 2385/4144 ext. 1101 / Fax: (+502) 2362/8361
E-mail: amaldonado@conred.org.gt
Assistant to Mr. Maldonado: Ada Paz
Email: apaz@conred.org.gt
Technical Focal Point:
Lic. Angela Leal, Directora de la Dirección de Gestión Integral de Riesgo
Assistant to Ms. Leal:
Evelyn Cabrera Fuegos
Other contacts
Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the United Nations in Geneva
Chief:
His Excellency Mr. Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Permanent Representative
Address: Chemin de Sous-Bois 21, 1202 Geneva
Tel: +(41-22) 734-55 73, Fax: +(41-22) 733-1429
Email: mission.guatemala@ties.itu.int
UN System Coordination
UN Resident Coordinador
Mr. Beat Rohr
UN Resident Coordinador / UNDP Resident Representative
Address: Edificio Europlaza World Business Centre, 5 Avenida 5-55, Zona 14, Torre IV, Nivel 10, 01010 Ciudad de Guatemala - Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 2384-3100, Fax: (+502) 2384-3200/3201
E-mail: beat.rohr@undp.org, registry.gt@undp.org
UNDP
Mr. Juan Pablo Corlazzoli
Address: Edificio Europlaza World Business Centre, 5 Avenida 5-55, Zona 14, Torre IV, Nivel 10, 01010 Ciudad de Guatemala
Tel: 00(502) 2384-3100, Fax: 00(502) 2384-3200/3201
E-mail: registry.gt@undp.org
PAHO/WHO Field Office
Contact person: Dr. Joaquín Molina, PAHO/WHO Representative
Address: Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, Edificio Etisa, Plazuela España,7a. Avenida 12-23, Zona 9, Guatemala, Guatemala / Apartado Postal 383, Guatemala, Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 2332-2032/2334-3803/2331-0583 / Fax: 2334-3804
E-mail: e-mail@gut.ops-oms.org
Website: www.ops.org.gt
Guatemalan Red Cross
Address: 3era. Calle 8-40, Zona 1, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Phone: 502 232-2026 / 253-2027/28 / Fax: 502 232-4649
E-mail: crg@guate.net
Website: http://www.guatemala.cruzroja.org/
European Commission, Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO)
Address: 13 avenida, 13-38, Zona 10, Oakland, Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 366-9050 / Fax (+502) 366-9080
E-mail: echoca@guate.net
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/echo/index_en.htm
Coordination Centre for the prevention of natural disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC)
Address: Avenida Hincapié 21-72 Zona 13, Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 363-1980/1981/1982/1983 / Fax: (+502) 363-1980 Ext. 102
E-mail: secretaria@cepredenac.org
Website: www.cepredenac.org
Secretariat General for Planning (SEGEPLAN)
Address: 9a. calle 10-44, zona 1, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 232-6212/251-3790/223-26212 / Fax: (+502) 253-3127
E-mail: segeplan@segeplan.gob.gt
Website: http://www.segeplan.gob.gt/
Ministry of Education (MINEDUC)
Address: 6a. Calle 1-87 zona 10, 01010, Guatemala, C.A.
Phone: (+502) 2411-9595
E-mail: info@mineduc.gob.gt
Website: http://www.mineduc.gob.gt/
Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing
Address: 8a. Av. 15 c. Zona 13
Phone: (+502) 362-6051/55 / fax: 502/362-6066
E-mail: relpublica@micivi.gob.gt
Website: http://www.civ.gob.gt/
Ministry of Health - Nacional Disaster Coordinator
Address: 9ª Avenida 1465, Zona 1, Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 232-5665/220-7910 / Fax: (+502) 351-8277
E-mail: unides@intelnet.net.gt
Website: www.cepredenac.org
National Environment Commission (CONAMA)
Address: 5a. avenida 8-07, zona 10
Phone/Fax: (+502) 3312723/3341708
E-mail: conama@rds.org.gt
Statistics National Institute (INE)
Address: Edificio América 8a. calle 9-55, zona 1, Ciudad de Gautemala
Phone: (+502) 232-6136/238-2587 / Fax: 232-4790
E-mail: ine@gua.gbm.net
Website: www.ine.gob.gt/
National Institute of Sismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hidrology (INSIVUMEH)
Department of Research and Hidric Services
Address: 7a. Avenida 14-57 Zona 13, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala C.A.
Phone: (+502) 331-4986/4967 / Fax: (+502) 331-5005
E-mail: insivumeh@insivumeh.gob.gt
Website: http://www.insivumeh.gob.gt/
National Geographic Institute Ing. Alfredo Obiols Gomez
Address: Av. Las Américas 5-76, Zona 13 CP 01013, Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 332-2611/0982 / Fax: (+502) 331-3548
E-mail: ign@ign.gob.gt
Website: http://www.ign.gob.gt/
National Association of Local Goverment of Guatemala (ANAM)
Address: 8ª. Calle 0-56 zona 9, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 360-3815/3825/3845 / Fax (+502) 331-6505
E-mail: anam331@yahoo.com.mx
National Forum of NGOs
Address: 2a. calle 16-60, zona 4 de Mixco, Edificio Atansio Tzul, 4to Nivel, Ciudad de Guatemala
Phone: (+502) 591-4624/25 / Fax: (+502) 591-4626
Country Profile
Official name: Republic of Guatemala
Capital: Guatemala City
Population: 12,728,111 (July 2007 est.)
Area: 108,890 sq km
Religion: Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
Language: Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40% (23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca)
Ethnic groups: Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) and European 59.4%, K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%, other Mayan 8.6%, indigenous non-Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001 census)
Government: constitutional democratic republic
Currency: quetzal, US dollar, others allowed
According to the World Bank’s Natural Disaster Hotspot study, Guatemala ranks 5th among countries with the highest economic risk exposure to three or more hazards. Guatemala is ranked as a high risk country due to the vulnerability of its gross domestic product (GDP) to multiple hazards with 83.3% of Guatemala’s GDP located in areas at risk. As one of the most densely populated countries in Latin America, with approximately 12 million inhabitants
in a territory of 108,890 square kilometers, the country is also one of the poorest in the region. Between 1902 and 2005, Guatemala experienced 62 disaster events, which affected approximately 6 million people.
Exposure in Guatemala is to both low frequency and high impact events, such as earthquakes, volcanoes and hurricanes, and to high frequency and low impact events, such as floods and landslides. It is this combination of high population density, poverty, and exposure to natural hazards in Guatemala that constitutes a high risk to adverse natural events.
The Government of Guatemala has placed Disaster Risk Management (DRM) firmly in its development agenda. This is evident with the inclusion of DRM in the National Development Plan (Plan de la Esperanza). The institutional coordinating mechanism that provides a legal framework for disaster prevention in the country and interministerial coordination in cases of emergency is the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) and its Secretariat (SE-CONRED).
Over the last decade, the Government of Guatemala has moved towards a more proactive disaster risk management approach. The Government has passed two laws that demonstrate this commitment: the Social Development Law (Decree 42-2001) and the Law of Housing and Human Settlements (Decree 120-96). Both of these laws include the concept of disaster vulnerability reduction in development planning.
Guatemala has made substantial progress towards addressing vulnerability. The Social Development Law (Decree 42-2001) establishes that there is a reciprocal relationship between the advancement of development planning and reducing disaster risks. In Articles 37 and 38, the Ministry of Planning (SEGEPLAN), in coordination with other government institutions, is charged with the strategy for disaster risk prevention and protection of vulnerable populations. In 2004, Project GUA 04/021 sought to strengthen capacities for reducing risk in development processes. The principal objective was to create an inter-institutional program with a vision to incorporate disaster risk management in development planning.
In addition, the Government of Guatemala has a National Program for Disaster Prevention and Reduction (PNPMD). This program focuses on enhancing risk monitoring and assessment, reducing risk, strengthening institutions, and developing risk financing strategies. This program ensures a comprehensive disaster risk management strategy in the country.
Despite great progress the country has made in addressing disaster risk, Guatemala remains vulnerable to disasters triggered by adverse natural events. Continued and improved attention by the Government of Guatemala is needed. Guatemala’s economic and social development is regularly interrupted by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, floods, and forest fires. Major disasters in Guatemala, such as the 1976 Earthquake, which resulted in more
than 23,000 deaths and damages estimated at 17.9% of GDP and Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which caused estimated damages of 4.7% of GDP, have crippling effects on the country’s sustainable development and long-term growth.
According to GFDRR's Country Program for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation 2009-2011, given Guatemala’s disaster risk profile and its existing framework for disaster risk management, the key priority is to implement the recently approved national program for disaster risk management. Strategic actions are needed in the following areas in Guatemala: (i) strengthen institutional capacity for strategic planning and coordination, (ii) mainstream disaster risk reduction in specific sectors, and (iii) develop a comprehensive risk assessment
and monitoring capacity.
(Source: GFDRR's Country Program for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation 2009-2011 - Summary notes, Colombia)
Geographical Description (about hazards and disasters):
The Republic of Guatemala is the land of "eternal spring". It is located in the heart of the American continent, bounded on the north and west by Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, the Republics of Honduras and El Salvador, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. It is situated between latitudes 13 ° 44 'and 18 ° 30' north and meridian 87 ° 24 'to 92 ° 14' west of Greenwich.
The country has the Cuchumatanes, the highest elevation in Central America, the Sierra Madre, which is how the central highlands of the country, marks the watershed. The central part of the mountain is more or less flat, called highlands, home to the largest cities. Of the system of the Sierra Madre emerge several branches, among the most important are the mountain ranges of Mines and Santa Cruz. Over the Sierra Madre there are over thirty volcanoes, many of them active today. In regard to the lakes, there are five major: Amatitlán, Atitlan, Güija, Izabal and Peten Itza, not to mention the large number of gaps and lagunetas. There are more than thirty-seven volcanoes, all aligned emerge on the ridge that runs parallel to the Pacific coast. Among them Tajumulco, which is the highest peak in Central America, and three active volcanoes: Pacaya, Santiaguito and Fuego.
Guatemala, because of its geographic position and its geological and tectonic features, is threatened with various natural phenomena associated with the vulnerabilities, tend to cause disasters. Because of its weather variables is affected by tropical storms or electric, a typical example is Hurricane Mitch, which struck in late October and early November 1998.
Guatemala belongs to an area of persistent threats and vulnerability exposure is largely the result of an equation in which intervenes poverty as a factor. The valley within which is based in Guatemala City and its environs, is formed mostly by deposits of pumice and a lesser amount for other types of lithology (limestones, granites to the north, south alluvial deposits, and lava tertiary the eastern and western edges). The slopes of the canyons, and because of its outstanding material properties that conforms (mainly its resistance), are susceptible to landslides. In the most common case (material pumice) stability of the slope is also influenced by the water content of the material which comprises: a higher water content, the lower the stability of the slope.
The areas most susceptible to landslides coincide with strong slopes, slopes of material with low resistance to cutting (commonly of pumice and / or rock intemperizada). In these areas are precarious settlements, which are particularly vulnerable to these phenomena.
Institutional Level
In order to establish the institutional strengthening of Guatemala, is in the process of building a strong national system for the response and reduction of natural disasters consolidating institutional efforts of the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) its role as the lead agency, which is constantly looking closer relationship with key governmental and nongovernmental agencies, which are responsible for the response and emergency management and the gradual introduction of an institutional culture through the establishment of procedures for handling disaster of general application.
As part of the process of institutional strengthening, we have the Emergency Operations Centre, which is the first in the Central American and Caribbean region, which ends completely organization, training and equipment. The CONRED, as a coordinating body, establishing a national coordinating mechanism that allows working at the national level. Plans and actions will be undertaken, aimed at strengthening and improving the responsiveness and attention to humanitarian emergencies to recognize the Republic of Guatemala with the National Response Plan, Integrated System of Emergency Management, Enhancing Systems Rescue National Multisectoral Management System for risk reduction.
On the part of the Executive Secretariat of the CONRED, monitoring of natural phenomena is done primarily through eleven early warning systems in the same number of rivers, seven for floods, two volcanoes, one for forest fires and a hurricane in the Atlantic. Moreover, it is necessary to mention other systems based on radio, international cooperation and civil society have important points installed in the country.
Under the objective of improving the levels of information on threats, with a view to reducing vulnerabilities and the impact of disasters, some public sector institutions, NGOs, CONRED, National Institute of Sismology, Vulcanology, Hydrology and Meteorology (INSIVUMEH), Ministry of Agriculture and Food (MAGA), Secretariat Planning and Programming (SEGEPLAN), the Geological Service of the United States (USGS) and others have developed a Geographic Information System (GIS), as an instrument to consolidate information management strategy. Among the aspects of laws and regulations include:
- The Executive Order 109-96 of the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction or Provocados, with the aim to prevent, mitigate, respond and participate in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the damage caused by the impact of disasters.
- The Social Development Act (Decree No. 42-2001).
- The Law Council of Urban and Rural Development (Decree No. 11-2002).
- The General Law on Decentralization (Decree No. 14-2002).
- The New Municipal Code (Decree No. 12-2002).
- The Allotment and Sale Act (Decree No. 84-2002).
- Among the regulations, Governmental Agreement No. 179-2001, declaratory high risk to the watersheds of Amatitlan, Villalobos and Michatoya and Governmental Agreement No. 23-2003, regulation evaluation, control and environmental monitoring.
Urban indicators
Statistical Overview
- Urbanisation:
- Total Population: 12 million
- Urban population: 40%
- Slum to urban population: 62%
- Annual population growth rates:
- Urban: 3%
- Slum: 2%
- Annual population growth rates:
- Slum Indicators - % urban population with access to
- Safe water source: 97%
- Improved sanitation: 70%
- Sufficient living area: 70%
- Durable housing: 79%
(Based on UN-Habitat 2001 estimates)
| Indicator | 2030 |
| Total population (thousands) | 21,690.6 |
| Population in urban (thousands) | 13,152.2 |
| Population in slums (thousands) | N/A |
| Population in urban areas (% of total population) | 60.6 |
| Population in slums (% of urban population) | N/A |
| Annual urban population growth rate (%) | N/A |
| Annual slum population growth rate (%) | N/A |
| Population with access to improved sanitation (% of urban population) | N/A |
| Population with access to improved water (% of urban population) | N/A |
| Population with sufficient living area (% of urban population) | N/A |
| Population with durable structures (% of urban population) | N/A |
| Population in rural (thousands) | 8,538.4 |
- Source: UN-Habitat - The data presented here is extracted from UN-HABITAT's Global Urban Indicators database.
- The data is drawn from different sources and based on 2030 estimates.
Climate change
- Guatemala's First National Communication on Climate Change to the UNFCC (Spanish, February 2002)
Progress towards the implementation of the HFA
(Source: Matrix Final - based on national progress report for the Global Platform)
HFA P1 - Institutional and legal framework:
New legal framework for CONRED that includes:
a)incorporation of DRR into the procedures of the national public pre-investment system (SNIP)
b)participatory process to reformulate the DRR policy is undergoing
c)strengthening of CONRED system
HFA P2 - Risk identification and EWS:
Flood early warning system: during 2006, 250 assessments have been conducted in the communities affected by the tropical storm Stan
HFA P3 - Knowledge and education:
New scientific knowledge program to identify high level risk areas is being formulated and includes conceptual framework
Introduction of the subject disaster reduction in the primary and secondary level schools
Strengthening of disaster documentation centre
Social national campaign “we can act”
Raise awareness with the media community
Consolidating CONRED website
HFA P4 - Risk applications:
“Vulnerability reduction and environmental degradation regional project (PREVDA)”Project ALA/2005/017-550 (started in late 2006)
HFA P5 - Preparedness and response:
CONRED has updated its national plan response Support to strengthen the capacities of the Mozambique emergency center (cooperation South-South)
Other Documents
Plan de contingencia de protección escolar
Informe sobre los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio en Guatemala
Parte II: Estudios nacionales: Caso de Guatemala
Situación de los incendios forestales en Guatemala
Reconocimiento preliminar de riesgos asociados a varias amenazas en poblados de Guatemala
Informe nacional sobre la situación de cuencas en Guatemala
Aportes para la gestión de obras para la prevención de inundaciones
Remarks by Mr. Luis Fernando Andrade Falla (PDF / 44 KB)
Vice-Minister Of Foreign Relations, Guatemala
Presented at the ACS High-Level Conference on Disaster Reduction
Saint-Marc, Haiti; November 2007
Web Links
PreventionWeb Country Profile - Natural Disaster - Guatemala Data and Statistics
Guatemala Coordination Profile; United Nations Development Group (includes Common Country Assessment - CCA, United Nations Development Assistance Framework - UNDAF, MDG Reports, UN Country Team, Resident Coordinator's Office and more)
EM-DAT Country Profile - Natural Disaster - Guatemala
ReliefWeb Countries and Emergencies - Guatemala
UN/ISDR UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Europe, Hazards Profle - Guatemala
Coordination Centre for the prevention of natural disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC)
Federation of Municipalities of the Central American Isthmus(FEMICA)
MDG Profile: Guatemala
