{"id":4975,"date":"2018-03-27T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2018-03-27T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T12:20:17","slug":"cdb-to-fund-programme-to-increase-social-resilience-to-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/cdb-to-fund-programme-to-increase-social-resilience-to-natural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"CDB to fund programme to increase social resilience to natural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the high vulnerability of the Caribbean Region to natural disasters and the effect they can have on mental health and psychosocial well-being, social resilience is often overlooked in mitigation and rebuilding efforts. In direct response to this issue, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has announced that it will fund a programme to enhance capacity for mental health and psychosocial support in disaster management in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is critical that a country\u2019s response to any disaster includes a targeted psychosocial support and mental health component to rebuild individual and social resilience,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said\u00a0<strong>Daniel Best, Director of Projects, CDB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We have witnessed first-hand how feelings of anxiety and distress can result from the inability to tolerate and withstand environmental and social threats, and lead to behaviours, including substance abuse, child and spousal abuse and gender-based violence<\/em>.\u00a0<em>This can potentially have a long term debilitating impact on victims, and by extension, the development of Small Island Developing States,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing mental health and psychosocial support has become increasingly relevant for governments and humanitarian actors. The grant from CDB will assist the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) with enhancing regional capacity to provide this kind of support in disaster management, and achieve three primary objectives:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribank.org\/news\/cdb-fund-programme-increase-social-resilience-natural-disasters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0\u00a0skeeze (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixabay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the high vulnerability of the Caribbean Region to natural disasters and the effect they can have on mental health and psychosocial well-being, social resilience is often overlooked in mitigation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[121,182,198],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-caribbean","tag-caribbean-development-bank","tag-disasters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Hurricane-skeeze-Pixabay.jpg?fit=1024%2C679&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-1if","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4568,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/cdb-president-announces-up-to-usd-800-million-for-disaster-recovery-amid-strong-bank-performance-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":4975,"position":0},"title":"CDB President announces up to USD 800 million for disaster recovery, amid strong Bank performance in 2017","author":"Michele Marius","date":"February 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Wm.\u00a0Warren Smith, \u00a0today announced that the institution is making USD700 to 800 million (mn) available to help Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) recover from the impact of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season. 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