Working Group Four: Preparedness, Readiness and Resilience

Purpose: To advise and recommend to the ICG strategies to enhance public awareness, education and resilience capacities and to develop the necessary recommendations, tools and procedures.

Functions:

· Identify the public awareness and education strategies and tools that the Member States can integrate into their risk reduction and emergency management programs.

· Support the development of guidelines for preparedness, response and recovery plans for communities and local governments and organisations, which should include sharing of training and evacuation best practices.

· To closely cooperate with the Caribbean Tsunami Information Centre (CTIC) in carrying out its mandate and in the implementation of its program.

Membership:

1.       Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Puerto Rico, USA (Chair)

2.       Corinne Leysner, Curacao (Vice Chair)

3.       Patrick Tyburn, France  (Vice Chair)

4.       John Kimbrough, USA

5.       Juan José Reyes, COPECO, Honduras

6.       Ronald Jackson, Executive Director, CDEMA

7.       Raul Salazar , UN-EIRD

8.       Claudia Herrera, CEPREDENAC

9.       Stacey Edwards, SRC 

10.    Clevon Ash, SRC

11.    Juan Salado, ONAMET, Dominican Republic

12.    Jasen Penn, British Virgin Islands, UK

13.    Kerry Hinds, DEM, Barbados

14.    Julia Rawlins-Bentham, Government Information Service, Barbados

15.    Susan Hodge, Anguilla, UK

16.    Fabio Rivera, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica

17.    José Antonio Aguilar, FUNVISIS, Venezuela

18.    Marie-Noëlle Raveau, Martinique, France

19.    Suzanne Foucan, Guadeloupe, France

20.    Dominique Cortes, Saint Martin, France

21.    Loïc Dupeux, Martinique, France

22.    Mathieu Péroche, France

23.    Roselly Pepin, EMIZA, Martinique, France

24.    Grégory Jabol, Martinique, France

25.    Alison Brome, CTIC (Ex-Officio)

26.    Bernardo Aliaga, CARIBE EWS Technical Secretary, UNESCO-IOC (Ex-Officio)