Country Coverage: Costa Rica
Regional Coverage: Central America
Field of Expertise: Environmental Studies, Risk Management
Language: Spanish and English
Email: lorova@gmail.com
Ms. Romero Vargas has 25 years of professional experience in disaster risk management in Costa Rica at the national level within the Office for Disaster Risk Management in San Jose. She has managed various projects with broad range of stakeholders at local, national and international level. As a professor, she teaches Environmental Protection and Risk Reduction within several public and private university programs.
Campaign Activities-
Promoted the campaign within local governments, municipality associations, academia and events organized at the national events.
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Coordinated12 campaign focal points and monitored self-assessment process.
- Community risk management program and managing resilience in vulnerable urban areas.
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Helped UNDRR efforts in involving private sector in local actions in Ecuador.
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Participated in the launch of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign in Latin America, in Peru: IV regional strategy for disaster risk reduction – Ecuador 2014; Global Conference on Disaster risk Reduction in Sendai – Japan, 2015.
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Organized Campaign relaunch with new local authorities.