Comisión Permanente de Contingencias

Comisión Permanente de Contingencias (COPECO)
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Honduras
Headquarters	Edificio COPECO carretera a Mateo Comayagüela, M.D.C
Agency executive	Lisandro Rosales, President
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

1. ^ "Ley del Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos (SINAGER)". 2009-08-28. http://www.elheraldo.hn/var/elheraldo_site/storage/original/application/afbccbc75b4506b12d92ff0d020c5f9f.pdf. 
2. ^ "Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de Desastres Naturales en America Central (CEPREDENAC)". sica.int. http://www.sica.int/busqueda/Informaci%C3%B3n%20Entidades.aspx?IDItem=466&IDCat=29&IdEnt=401. 

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))