Guyana Cdema Ddsa Tender

Members of the team from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency CDEMA which will be conducting Guyanas Detailed Disaster Sector Assessment DDSA on the current floods situation arrived in Guyana on Tuesday.The mission will be coordinating with the Civil Defence Commission CDC in the execution of the assessment which is estimated to be completed in approximately one month. The team includes representatives from a number of international agencies including the United Nations Development Programme UNDP United Nations Childrens Fund UNICEF Food and Agriculture Organization FAO Pan American Health Organisation PAHO United Nations Population Fund UNFPA United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination UNDAC and the International Organisation for Migration IOM.A number of Caribbean regional agencies are also represented on the team including the Caribbean Public Health Agency CARPHA and Caribbean Agricultural Research Development Institute CARDI.At a team briefing on Tuesday evening Executive Director of CDEMA Elizabeth Riley commended the quick response from the different agencies which allowed for the team to be constituted in a short time.This is a true representation of the spirit and practice of our regional response mechanism Riley commented.Riley also commended the work that the CDC has been doing thus far in addressing the flooding which has been ongoing since last month due to unusually heavy rainfall.Guyana reached out to the CDEMA for assistance following the declaration of the flooding situation as a national disaster on June 9. The DDSA is the fourth stage in the CDEMA Damage Analysis and Needs Assessment DANA continuum for disasters.At Tuesdays briefing CDC Director General Kester Craig highlighted the importance of the DDSA report to guide short medium and long term intervention.It is very important for us to understand what is happening in each administrative region but we cannot get this done without collaboration and coordination so we are very grateful for the support from the regional and international organisations Craig noted.The DDSA team is scheduled to commence work from Wednesday where they will be covering assessments and analysis across seven sectors namely health water and sanitation infrastructure and housing agriculture social services shelter and mining.The DDSA will see respective teams going into Guyanas most affected regions which are Regions Two Five Six Seven and Ten. The teams will spend a number of days in each region meeting with necessary stakeholders and gathering data for analysis. Each respective team will include specialists for each of the sectors being assessed.The assessment will include analysis of the sectors to determine the extent of the damage that has occurred an analysis of the estimated cost to recover and look at how the recovery estimate can lead to additional support for Guyana in the rebuilding and long term recovery.