Latin America & the Caribbean

Nicaragua

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The country is covered by the UNESCO Cluster Office San José, in Costa Rica.

Nicaragua is prone to several types of natural disasters such as landslides, earthquakes and hurricanes.

It takes part in the Regional Action Programme Central America (RAP-CA) for Capacity Building for Natural Disaster Reduction to develop appropriate decision support tools and techniques to implement disaster preventive and mitigation measures, using local knowledge and information modelling tools.

It is also participating in several biodiversity conservation initiatives such as the Local and indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) project in the Mayangna – Bosawas biosphere reserve that seeks to ensure that the local population’s knowledge, as well as their unique ecological and social relationship with the natural environment, is recognised and incorporated in management plans.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) Project: Using Space Technologies to Assist Mesoamerica with the Biological Corridor More

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

Oceans

- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE)

- Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS) 

Earth Sciences

- Hydrogeology, Hydrochemistry and Management of Coastal Aquifers on the Atlantic Coast of South America (IGCP, Project 519)
Coasts and Small Islands

- Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program (CARICOMP): sustaining coastal biodiversity benefits and ecosystem services 

Natural Disasters Reduction

- Regional Action Programme Central America (RAP-CA) for Capacity Building for Natural Disaster Reduction More

Remote Sensing

- UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) Project: Using Space Technologies to Assist Mesoamerica with the Biological Corridor More

Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

- Mayangna – Bosawas Biosphere Reserve project More