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Ex Ante Cost Benefit Analysis Of Community-Based Drr Interventions In The Caribbean, Meenakshi Jerath, Juan Pablo Sarmiento
Ex Ante Cost Benefit Analysis Of Community-Based Drr Interventions In The Caribbean, Meenakshi Jerath, Juan Pablo Sarmiento
Meenakshi Jerath
This report presents a study on the cost benefit analyses (CBA) and cost effectiveness analysis (CEA) of community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions in the Caribbean. The DRR interventions, implemented by the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC), Port of Spain, in three Caribbean countries, Jamaica, Antigua & Barbuda, and Suriname, comprised the pilot phase of the Red Cross (RC) Project, Improving Climate Change Resilience of Caribbean Communities. This study is part of the endeavor by the DRR Program of Florida International University (FIU) and the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of the U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) …