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Santo Domingo.- The Emergency Operations Center (COE) presented this Wednesday the results of the Multi-Hazard Early Warning National System (SAT-M) project, an initiative that strengthens the country's capabilities to anticipate, monitor, and respond to emergencies, developed together with the National Council for Climate Change, the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (Mepyd) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), with the financial support of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), through the Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS) program.
During the event, the main technical and governance results achieved by the project were presented, including a Framework for the Multi-Hazard Early Warning System, the Risk and Vulnerability Atlas for Emergencies (ARVE), the Impact Georegistration, and the Neighborhood Emergency Response Index (IRBE), as well as the advances in the Alerta-COE application, which will allow the issuance of more geolocated and standardized alerts.
The ARVE consolidates more than 70 layers of official geospatial information, integrating data on threats, exposure, vulnerability, and response capacity at the national, provincial, and neighborhood levels. Through the Impact Georegistration, the system allows consultation and cross-referencing of information on 1,326 events and 314 georeferenced impacts registered since 1925, strengthening planning and evidence-based decision-making.
One of the most relevant milestones of the project was the collaboration agreement between the COE, the National Statistics Office (ONE), and the National Geographic Institute (IGN), which establishes national standards for geospatial and cartographic information, guaranteeing interoperability between the institutions of the National Risk Management System.
Likewise, the participation of more than 40 national institutions through technical and sectoral roundtables was highlighted, which consolidated a participatory governance model for risk management. In terms of capacity building, the project carried out 12 training sessions on issues related to disaster risk management and early warning, a South-South exchange with the National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred), webinars and training workshops, which reached 307 people.
“The National Multi-Hazard Early Warning System and the Risk and Vulnerability Atlas for Emergencies are tools that transform the way we manage risk in the country. Today we have a robust, interoperable and participatory system with international standards, which puts information at the service of prevention and response,” said Juan Manuel Méndez, director of the COE.
The SAT-M project leaves as a legacy a set of institutional and technological tools that will strengthen the resilience of the Dominican Republic against disasters, reaffirming the COE's leadership in the coordination of the National Risk Management System and its commitment to the protection of the lives and livelihoods of the population.
