Caption: “…Disaster Risk Reduction features heavily across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in acknowledgement that natural disasters have the potential to significantly erode development gains, particularly for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and more importantly as we seek to recover and build back better, we must examine and implement long term strategies and systematic fixes to prepare for and respond to disasters…”- Sen. the Hon Kamina Johnson Smith delivering Opening Statement Jamaica’s side event of the current High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, United Nations, New York (July 13).
The event showcased what the Minister considers the “successful collaboration between Jamaica and its international development partners” on the Catastrophe Bond, designed and implemented to “increase the resilience (to natural disasters) and the speed of recovery. #Partnership for Development.
