Regional Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction in the School Environment: Caribbean stakeholders gather on November 22 and 23 in Guadeloupe.

22 Nov 2023 | Actualités, Let’s Be Prepared

PIRAC is organizing its Regional Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Educational sector on November 22 and 23 in Guadeloupe. This workshop brings together a number of technical representatives from the education and risk prevention sectors, with the aim of...

Seawater desalination in emergencies: several actors trained from November 13th to 16th 2023 in Saint-Vincent and the Grenadines

10 Nov 2023 | Actualités, Ready 360°

PIRAC is organizing a four-day training course about seawater desalination in emergencies for the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Red Cross and several of its local partners. This event will also be an opportunity to create a protocol of rapid deployment and...

From November 7th to 8th, 2023, the second Caribbean Workshop on International Disaster Response Law (IDRL) was held

8 Nov 2023 | Actualités, Ready 360°

PIRAC, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) have been working for several years to strengthen disaster management legislative frameworks to facilitate international...

International day for disaster risk reduction 2023

13 Oct 2023 | Actualités

In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed October 13 “International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction” to promote a global culture of disaster risk reduction. This date is an opportunity to recognize the worldwide progress made  in terms of...

Sharing experiences in the Caribbean: the Paré pa Paré team in Dominican Republic

10 Aug 2023 | Actualités, Paré pa Paré

Sharing Guadeloupe’s expertise in the Caribbean From July 31 to August 4, PIRAC was welcomed in Santo Domingo by the Dominican Republic Red Cross (CRRD) to meet its members and technical partners. The trip was part of the Let’s Be Prepared program, which...

Raising awareness of seismic risk: over 1,700 students in Guadeloupe to be sensitized over the 2022 – 2023 school year

4 Jul 2023 | Actualités

Through its seismic risk awareness operations, PIRAC is helping to further increase risk awareness in Guadeloupe, particularly among young people, through the experience of real tremors. The deployment of the seismic simulator at the Collège Front de mer in...