Comisión Permanente de Contingencias
| Agency overview | |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Honduras |
| Headquarters | Edificio COPECO carretera a Mateo Comayagüela, M.D.C |
| Agency executive |
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| Website | copeco.gob.hn |
The Permanent Contingency Commission of Honduras (in Spanish: Comisión Permanente de Contingencias (COPECO)), is an entity created to coordinate public and private disaster relief efforts in the framework of the National Risk Management System of Honduras (in Spanish: Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos).[1]
COPECO 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 (in 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 (SICA). [2]
References
- ^ "Ley del Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos (SINAGER)" (PDF). 2009-08-28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21.
- ^ "Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de Desastres Naturales en America Central (CEPREDENAC)". sica.int.
External links
- Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC)
- SATCA Early warning system for Central America (Sistema de Alerta Temprana para Centroamérica (SATCA))
- Humanitarian Information Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (Red de Información Humanitaria para América Latina y el Caribe (Redhum))