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Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres

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Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (CONRED)
Seal of CONRED

Logo used by the government
Agency overview
FormedNovember 11, 1996
Preceding agency
  • Comité Nacional de Emergencia (CONE)
JurisdictionGovernment of Guatemala
HeadquartersAvenida Hincapié 21-72, Zona 13, Guatemala City
Annual budgetQ. 42 million
Agency executives
  • Oscar Estuardo Cossío Cámara, Executive Secretary
  • Sergio Antonio Reyes Recinos, Undersecretary for Coordination and Administration
  • Walter René Monroy Valenzuela, Undersecretary for Risk Reduction Management
Websitewww.conred.gob.gt

The National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (Spanish: Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres, CONRED) is a Guatemalan government organization created to prevent disasters or reduce their impact on society, and coordinate disaster relief efforts.[1] [2] Day-to-day management is carried out by the Executive Secretary of CONRED, also known as SE-CONRED. The current Executive Secretary of CONRED is Oscar Estuardo Cossío Cámara, a former Vice Minister of Defense and former general of the Guatemalan Army.

CONRED is responsible for assessing potential hazards, impending or actual disasters based on information provided by the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH), and for declaring states of alert. Once a disaster has been declared, it is responsible for the coordination of cross-sectoral disaster relief efforts.[1][2]

CONRED is part of a Central American network of governmental disaster relief agencies known as the Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (Spanish: Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC)). CEPREDENAC was created in the context of the Central American Integration System. [3]

History

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CONRED was officially established in 1996 by the Guatemalan congress in Decree No. 109-96, Law on the National Coordinator for the Reduction of Natural or Manmade Disasters (Spanish: Decreto No. 109-96, Ley de la Coordinadora Nacional para la Reduccion de Desastres de Origen Natural o Provocado).[4] The organization was intended as a civilian successor to CONE, the military-led National Committee on Emergency.[5]

List of Executive Secretaries

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Executive Secretary of CONRED
Officeholder From To
Colonel Homero García 1997 1998
Jorge Estuardo Ayala Marroquín 1999 2000
Alejandro Maldonado Lutomirsky 2000 2004
Hugo René Hernández 2004 2008
Alejandro Maldonado Lutomirsky 2008 2016
Sergio Garcia Cabañas 2016 2020
Colonel Miguel Ángel Escribá Pimentel 2020 2020
General Oscar Estuardo Cossío Cámara 2020 present

References

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  1. ^ a b "Decreto Legislativo 109-96 Ley de Coordinadora Nacional para la Prevención de Desastres Naturales o Provocados". Diario de Centro América. 1996-11-07. Archived from the original on 2019-12-11.
  2. ^ a b Picard, Mary (e.a.) (April 2007). "Legal Issues from the International Response to Tropical Storm Stan in Guatemala. A case study commissioned by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) Programme" (PDF). IDRL/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
  3. ^ "Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de Desastres Naturales en America Central (CEPREDENAC)". sica.int.
  4. ^ "Decree No. 109-96, Law on the National Coordinator for the Reduction of Natural or Manmade Disasters, Decreto No. 109-96, Ley de la Coordinadora Nacional para la Reduccion de Desastres de Origen Natural o Provocado), Guatemala, 1996 | IFRC". disasterlaw.ifrc.org. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  5. ^ "Informe de labores del Comite nacional de emergencia (CONE) 1992". www.preventionweb.net. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
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