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The head of the Disaster Risk Reduction, Recovery and Resilience Building Team at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Crisis Bureau, Ronald Jackson, says a new report is calling for a reimagining of development strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a resilience lens.
The Jamaican-born Jackson, a former executive director of the Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), told the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction that the Regional Human Development Report for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) “essentially presents the development in the region as being under pressure”.
Jackson said that the report goes into a set of arguments that seeks to depressurise or to release this particular pressure.
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