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.