What can we learn from existing research on the long-term aspects of disaster risk and recovery? The impacts of COVID-19 have reached across the globe, directly affecting millions of people and...
Executive Summary On the morning of Thursday August 27th, 2015, Dominica was hit by Tropical Storm Erika (TS Erika), which bombarded the island with rainfall for approximately nine hours. Torrential...
DOMINICA’S VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL HAZARDS Dominica is located within the Atlantic hurricane belt and is extremely vulnerable to high-intensity weather events such as high winds, excess rainfall and...
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Executive Summary Over the 2013-2017 period, the Pan American Health Organization, the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, continued to undertake technical cooperation...
The lessons learned below are a result of the analysis of main findings and lessons from the impact and response to Tropical Storm Erika in August 2015 in Dominica, and hurricanes tropical storms...
The Commonwealth of Dominica is a sovereign island country, part of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The island lies - southeast of Guadeloupe and...
Document Overview This document provides practical examples of ongoing or recent activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) related to internal displacement. In line with the...
Date of Issue: 01 March 2017 Glide number: TC-2015-000119-DMA Date of disaster: 27 August 2015 Operation start date: 10 September 2015 Operation end date: 10 April 2016 Host National Society:...
ROSEAU, Dominica, Mar 1 2017 (IPS) - When Tropical Storm Erika hit the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica on Aug. 27, 2015, it killed more than two dozen people, left nearly 600 homeless and wreaked...