Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency

Members of the Regional Security System have also requested military and logistical assistance through the agency after natural disasters.

[citation needed] The Pan-Caribbean Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Project (PCDPPP) was established in July 1984 to minimize the damage caused by severe weather conditions in the Caribbean region and the Gulf of Mexico.

In 1989, after the widespread destruction of Hurricane Hugo, there was a focus on creating more effective natural disaster management and preparedness.

[11] In 2005, CDERA was planning to better coordinate with the tourism industry by preparing a response strategy for natural or man-made disasters.

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) claimed the current system CDERA was using needed to become more integrated to avoid a "Tower of Babel" effect occurring.

[12] Also, later that year, CDERA coordinator Jeremy Collymore started putting pressure on the individual countries of the Caribbean Union to become more self-sustainable in case of an emergency, while aid from Japan was used to help develop the community's early warning systems and hazard management ability.

It has been said that some staff members of CDERA lack backgrounds in disaster management, and those in charge are low in the bureaucracy's chain of command.

[17] In 2010, CDERA underwent a name change to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).