Vice Ministry of Civil Defense

Mission, Vision, Values and Principles of the Entity

Mission

“To formulate and implement the National Security and Defense Policy, managing the resources of the Armed Forces for the fulfillment of their constitutional mandate, coordinating and promoting risk management and disaster relief, combating smuggling and actions to support integral development for Living Well”

Vision

“By 2025 we will be a resilient entity, with a results-oriented public management model; characterized by its transparency and respect for institutional integrity; recognized for its capacity to design and implement security and defense policies and strategies, risk management and disaster relief, combat smuggling and actions to support comprehensive development in coordination with the Armed Forces and the different levels of the State.”

Goals

Improve the administrative management of the Ministry of Defense to transparently address 100% of the requirements prioritized by dependent units and Armed Forces at the national level during the five-year period 2021-2025.
Strengthen the operational management of the Armed Forces by promoting the improvement of their capabilities in the components of doctrine, organization, means, personnel and infrastructure at the national level during the five-year period 2021 – 2025.
Strengthen the administration, protection and development of maritime, river, lake and merchant marine interests; as well as the national and international maritime awareness and advocacy during the five-year period 2021-2025.
Strengthen disaster risk management in the Local Risk Management Units (UGRs) of vulnerable municipalities, to achieve timely response to disasters and/or emergencies in order to build resilience during the five-year period 2021-2025.
Strengthen inter-institutional coordination mechanisms in the fight against smuggling through the implementation of joint policies and strategies at the national level during the five-year period 2021-2025

Disaster and emergency preparedness in health

The field of disaster and emergency preparedness in health refers to the knowledge and capabilities to anticipate, respond to, and recover effectively from the impacts of probable, imminent, or current risk events or conditions.

Governments, response and recovery organizations, communities, and individuals can take preparedness actions to build the necessary capacities to manage all types of emergencies and achieve an orderly transition from response to sustained recovery.

These actions, based on a thorough analysis of disaster risks and coordination with early warning systems, include contingency plans, provisioning of equipment and supplies, establishment of testing and coordination mechanisms, risk awareness and public dissemination of protective behaviors, and associated training and exercises.Key data

Between 1970 and 2018, the Americas region experienced more than 4,500 disasters that killed 569,184 people and left more than three million injured.
Disasters and emergencies of any kind can cause multimillion-dollar economic losses and reduce the working capacity of health systems.
Today, more than ever, it is necessary for countries to improve their preparedness and response to health emergencies and disasters, a need expressed by PAHO members.

PAHO response

The PAHO Department of Health Emergencies’ Health Emergencies and IHR Preparedness Area works to ensure that PAHO member states have the capacity to manage risks of all kinds in health emergencies and disasters, including the core capacities needed to fulfill their responsibilities under the IHR (2005). The goal is for each member state to build its own permanent capacity to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from humanitarian emergencies and large-scale outbreaks.

Main lines of action:

Institutionalization of a national health emergency management plan.
Development and implementation of the plan for preparedness and response to multiple health threats.
Identification and training of multidisciplinary health response teams.
Regional activities of the IHR secretariat.
Analysis, monitoring and evaluation of the core capacity of the RSI.
Development of guides, teaching materials and standardized work procedures.
Implementation of the Emergency Medical Teams initiative.

Natural Hazards and Public Healt

https://paho-health-emergencies-who.hub.arcgis.com

Natural Hazards and Public Health Emergencies Geo-HUB

Natural Hazards Monitoring

Follow link: https://www.paho.org/en/health-emergencies/natural-disasters-monitoring

LINK to the Natural Disasters Monitoring reports.
Reports are prepared to facilitate awareness, assessment, and response to natural disaster related events in the Americas. Please note that this compilation uses official and unofficial sources and may not include all current events, and information will continue to change as events unfold

Interactive Map – Near real-time natural hazards in the Americas

Follow link for full screen version: https://arcg.is/1qzPOT

https://who.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=bbb6909009994e60a025549b02e8e07c

Hospital exposure to historic natural hazards’ hot-spots: floods, hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes and volcanic activity

Latin America, Caribbean & Atlantic Ocean Islands.

Follow link for full screen version:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/afe0beff737a4a7981b0a3084ebeb742

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/afe0beff737a4a7981b0a3084ebeb742

Dashboards and ad-hocapplications targeting specific natural events and public health emergencies

Hurricanes, volcanic events, major earthquakes…

Display Dashboards or Web Apps by clicking on each thumbnail

Hurricane Season 2025 in the Americas

This Web Application contains an interactive map with near-real-time hydro-meterorological natural hazards in the Americas, population estimates distribution as well as the location of hospital facilities.

Hurricane Season 2024 in the Americas

Hurricane Season 2023 in the Americas

Volcanes de Ecuador: Población y Hospitales Expuestos

This Web Map Application contains geo-referenced active volcanoes in Ecuador, as well as tools to estimate the exposed population groups as well as the hospital units.

Fuego Volcano activity in Guatemala 2023: exposed population & health emergency facilities

This map contains geo-referenced natural hazards in the Guatemala, surrounding Volcan de Fuego, the population geographic distribution & the location of health facilities.

Hurricane Season 2022 in the Americas

WEB_APP_PAHO 2022 Hurricane Season in the Americas

PAHO 2021 Hurricane Season in the Americas

WEB_APP_PAHO 2021 Huricane Season in the Americas

Earthquake M 7.2 – 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, August 14th 2021 at around 8:29 a.m. local time. THis Interactive map helps to asses the expose population and health facilities.

Honduras – Centros de Salud Afectados por los Huracanes ETA & IOTA

HONDURAS- Centros de Salud Afectados por los HUracanes ETA & IOTA

Eruption Volcano La Soufriere 2020-2021- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Map

Eruption Volcano La Soufriere- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Map

WEB_APP_PAHO 2020 Hurricane Season in the Americas

WEB_APP_PAHO 2020 Huricane Season in the Americas

WEB_APP_Earthquakes in Puerto Rico, 2020

This Web Map contains geo-referenced natural data of Puerto Rico, population estimates distribution as well as the location of health facilities.

Erupción del Volcán Sangay – Población y Hospitales expuestos

WEB_APP_Hurricane Season 2019 in the Americas

Hurricane Season 2019 in the Americas

WEB_APP_Population exposed to Natural Hazards in the Caribbean Harvey, Maria & Irma 2017

Population in the Caribbean countries exposed to natural hazards

WEB_APP_Fuego Volcano in Guatemala: exposed population & health emergency facilities

This Web Map App contains geo-referenced natural hazards in the Guatemala, surrounding Volcan de Fuego, the population geographic distribution & the location of health and emergency facilities.

Earthquake M7_1 Ayutla, Puebla, Mexico in 2017

This Web Map App contains geo-referenced earthquake M7.1

Data/Statistics

Epidemiological alerts and updates

Monitoring of natural hazards

PAHO Health Emergencies

Online training

Key documents

Cover page - Healthcare sector multi-hazard response framework

Health sector multi-hazard response framework

The main objective of the health sector’s Multi-Hazard Response Framework (MRM) is to improve countries’ capacity to manage emergency and disaster response more efficiently.

The MRM offers an operational model that allows it to identify response activities, taking into account all existing threats, and carries them out within the framework of the nation and based on the organization of the health sector.

The MRM is designed primarily for health authorities, emergency services managers and disaster risk management, guiding them in the process of updating and developing response plans.

Implementing the MRM will provide countries with adequate response planning from a multi-hazard approach.

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MRM operational model for implementing the functions of responding to a health emergency

From the Risk, Emergency and Disaster Management Unit in coordination with the Vice Ministry of Civil Defense, ministerial programs and the

OPS/OMS BoliviaWe are strengthening emergency and disaster preparedness in the

#Health sector .Through the workshop for the application of the “Strategic Health Risk Assessment Tool (STAR)” and the Health Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Index (IPED), which allows the identification and prioritization of the main threats in the country with a multi-hazard approach.This work allows us to anticipate different

#AdverseEvents , improve health contingency plans and strengthen the response to emergencies and disasters, always with the commitment to protect the health of the population.

From the Risk, Emergency and Disaster Management Unit in coordination with the Vice Ministry of Civil Defense, ministerial programs and the

OPS/OMS BoliviaWe are strengthening emergency and disaster preparedness in the

#AdverseEvents , improve health contingency plans and strengthen the response to emergencies and disasters, always with the commitment to protect the health of the population.

#WeAreBuildingHealth

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Vice Ministry of Civil Defense

Goals:

Plan, coordinate and execute risk reduction actions, proposing risk management policies and strategies.

Functions :

To propose policies and strategies for risk management, for their incorporation into the National Planning System and the Public Investment Program.

Plan and coordinate actions aimed at the prevention and reduction of risks in coordination with departmental, regional, municipal bodies and indigenous peasant communities, as well as with public and private, national and international entities.

Plan and execute actions for preparation, alert, response, rehabilitation and reconstruction in case of emergencies and natural, technological and anthropogenic disasters in coordination with departmental, regional, municipal entities and indigenous peasant peoples, as well as with public and private, national and international entities.

Systematize and manage information on risk reduction and emergency and disaster response.

To serve as and direct the Technical Secretariat of the National Council for the Reduction and Attention to Disasters and Emergencies – CONARADE.

To coordinate with the Ministries of Economy and Public Finance and Development Planning the channeling of technical and financial cooperation, for the development of civil defense programs and projects in emergency and disaster situations.

To fulfill the powers and functions established in Title II Chapter IV, article 15 of Supreme Decree No. 29894.