The National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (, CONRED) is a Guatemalan government organization created to prevent disasters or reduce their impact on society, and coordinate disaster relief efforts. Day-to-day management is carried out by the Executive Secretary of CONRED, also known as SE-CONRED. The current Executive Secretary of CONRED is Oscar Estuardo Cossío Cámara, a former Vice Minister of Defense and former general of the Guatemalan Army.

CONRED is responsible for assessing potential hazards, impending or actual disasters based on information provided by the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH), and for declaring states of alert. Once a disaster has been declared, it is responsible for the coordination of cross-sectoral disaster relief efforts.

CONRED 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 ( (CEPREDENAC)). CEPREDENAC was created in the context of the Central American Integration System.

History CONRED was officially established in 1996 by the Guatemalan congress in Decree No. 109-96, Law on the National Coordinator for the Reduction of Natural or Manmade Disasters (). The organization was intended as a civilian successor to CONE, the military-led National Committee on Emergency.

List of Executive Secretaries Executive Secretary of CONREDOfficeholderFromToColonel Homero García19971998Jorge Estuardo Ayala Marroquín19992000Alejandro Maldonado Lutomirsky20002004Hugo René Hernández20042008Alejandro Maldonado Lutomirsky20082016Sergio Garcia Cabañas20162020Colonel Miguel Ángel Escribá Pimentel20202020General Oscar Estuardo Cossío Cámara2020present

References

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))