Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres

Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (CONRED)
Agency overview
Formed November 11, 1996
Preceding agency
  • Comité Nacional de Emergencia (CONE)
Jurisdiction Government of Guatemala
Headquarters Avenida Hincapié 21-72, Zona 13, Guatemala City
Annual budget Q. 42 million
Agency executives
  • Alejandro Maldonado, Executive Secretary
  • Fernando Muñiz, Executive Undersecretary
Website www.conred.gob.gt

The National Coordination for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala (in Spanish: Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (CONRED)) is an entity created to prevent disasters or reduce their impact on society, and coordinate disaster relief efforts.[1] [2] Day-to-day management is carried out by the Executive Secretariat of CONRED, also known as SE-CONRED.

CONRED is responsible for asserting potential hazards, impending or actual disasters based on information provided by the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH), and for declaring states of alert. Once a disaster has been declared, it is responsible for the coordination of cross-sectoral disaster relief efforts.[1][2]

CONRED is part of a Central American network of governmental disaster relief agencies known as the Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (in Spanish: Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC)). CEPREDENAC was created in the context of the Central American Integration System (SICA). [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Decreto Legislativo 109-96 Ley de Coordinadora Nacional para la Prevención de Desastres Naturales o Provocados". Diario de Centro América. 1996-11-07.
  2. 1 2 Picard, Mary (e.a.) (April 2007). "Legal Issues from the International Response to Tropical Storm Stan in Guatemala. A case study commissioned by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) Programme" (PDF). IDRL/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
  3. ↑ "Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de Desastres Naturales en America Central (CEPREDENAC)". sica.int.

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