Report on the Expert group meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Education Sector LC/CAR/L.236 December 2009

The purpose of the meeting was to provide a forum in which the ministries of education, regional academic institutions and development partner organizations from the Caribbean would share information on, inter alia, the impact of natural disasters in the Caribbean on the education sector; the workings of emergency plans and programming at the national level for the education sector and recommendations for the strengthening of DRR in the education sector. It was the first time that experts from the subregion drawn from the education sector were meeting to discuss DRR.