Jamaica Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project

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The objective of the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project is to enhance Jamaica’s resilience to disaster and climate risk. There are four components to the project, the first component being technical assistance for improved disaster and climate resilience. This component includes improving the generation and collection of targeted hazard and risk information, its analysis and use in monitoring systems and decision making. The second component is the risk reduction. This includes the retrofitting or construction of key assets given that the infrastructure sector is one of the most severely impacted after a major disaster event. To reduce Jamaica’s physical vulnerability to adverse natural events, this component will finance structural mitigation measures. The sub-components and activities to be financed under this component are: (i) retrofitting, construction and/or rehabilitation of national and sub-national priority infrastructure (bridges and urban drainage); (ii) retrofitting, construction and/or rehabilitation of critical public facilities (schools and fire stations); and (iii) establishing or improving coastal protection measures. The third component is the contingent emergency response. This Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC) will support Jamaica’s emergency preparedness and response capacity to the impact of natural hazards, including financing of post-disaster critical emergency goods or emergency recovery and associated services, as well as targeted provision of post-disaster Social Safety Net (SSN) support to affected households and individuals. Following an adverse natural event, the Government’s declaration of disaster in accordance with national law, and subject to the Bank’s activation policy, the contingent component would be triggered. Finally, the fourth component is the project administration.