UN chooses GESP

April 10th, 2011

GESP, at the head of a joint venture with the prestigious Disaster Risk Reduction Centre of the University of the West Indies, has won the tender launched by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) for the construction of a geographic system in the Caribbean aimed at coordinating all operations of assessment of risks from catastrophic events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc..) and to identify measures for its mitigation.

In all there are concerned 11 former British and Dutch colonies (Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles, British Virgin Islands, Turks & Caycos) scattered throughout the whole Caribbean.

The project, which is an essential part of the 3Ri Framework Programme (Regional Risk Reduction Initiative) funded by the European Commission, has a duration of two years and provides, inter alia, the mapping and analysis of the vulnerability of sensitive sites such as towns, ports and airports, power lines and technological networks, power plants, etc..

Having already worked in Eastern Europe (Russia, Romania, Kosovo) and in the Arab countries (Turkey, Syria, UAE), GESP is now in his second spell in the Caribbean region, having just completed a GIS project for the management of the land register in Saint Vincent & the Grenadines.