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The Project to Support Disaster
Prevention in the Andean Community -
PREDECAN is the result of Financing
Agreement No. ASR/B7-3100/99/313
signed in 2003 by the European
Commission (EU) and the Andean
Community General Secretariat (SGCAN),
representing the five member
countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru and Venezuela.
PREDECAN has a financing line
amounting to €12,400,000, of which the
EU has committed itself to finance a
maximum of €9,450,000 and the
beneficiary countries, to contribute
€2,950,000. Of this latter sum,
€900,000 will be transferred in cash
to the SGCAN and the remaining
€2,050,000 will consist of national
counterpart payments in kind.
According to the Financing Agreement,
the execution phase of PREDECAN will
last until December 31, 2007.
Objectives
The Project’s general objective is to
“Help reduce the vulnerability of
people and goods exposed to natural
dangers and risks and to promote the
sustainable development of the CAN
countries.” It is in line with the
regional disaster prevention and
relief policies reflected in the
“Andean Strategy for Disaster
Prevention and Relief” and in the
“Strategic Plan for 2005 – 2010.”
As a specific objective, the Project
proposes to “improve services in
the risk management area by
strengthening national and
institutional policies and
coordinating activities in those
areas.”
Lines of Action
1. Strengthening of Andean national
and subregional systems and policies
PREDECAN gives the Andean countries
support on organization, policy,
strategic planning, legal framework
and the search for funding relating to
the National Disaster Prevention and
Relief and/or Defense/Civil Protection
Systems.
The Project will assist CAPRADE in
moving toward its consolidation as a
space for coordinating joint actions
and mutual support for Disaster
Prevention and Relief. Technical and
juridical assistance is foreseen for
its institutional strengthening, the
establishment of common policies among
the countries, the exchange of
experiences and the creation of
thematic and institutional networks.
2. Risk information, assessment and
monitoring systems
The Project seeks to strengthen in the
countries mechanisms for generating,
systematically organizing, conserving
and disseminating appropriate, timely
and systematic information for
application to development planning,
disaster prevention/relief and, in
general, decision-making.
3. Incorporation of risk management
into territorial, sector and
development planning
PREDECAN supports the preparation of
instruments, methodologies and
standards for considering risk a
determinant in decision-making on
territorial ordering, development
planning, promotion of soil use
regulation, and the formulation by
sector institutions of programs and
projects to incorporate the
consideration of risk assessment and
alleviation in investment plans.
4. Education and consciousness-raising
on risk management
Socialization and education is a basic
activity for ensuring that the
different social actors and sectors
have timely access to the necessary
information for participating in the
varied risk management decisions and
activities.
PREDECAN fosters the formulation of an
Integral Strategy on Education,
Training and Consciousness-Raising,
and the performance of some priority
dissemination activities, the
preparation of teaching material, and
training at the Andean subregional and
national levels. In addition, the
Project will also support higher
education programs and will expedite
curriculum adjustment in the different
countries.
5. Pilot projects to strengthen
participation in local risk management
The Project will support NGOs and
other forms of citizen organization
and participation, as well as
institutions, academic organizations
and communications media, to get free
society to lead and appropriate
endogenous risk management processes
at the local level by financing pilot
projects to promote participation in
decision-making and the execution of
risk management actions.
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