On 10 February 2026, the Public–Private Partnerships (PPP) Round Table took place at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn as part of the Caribbean–EU Study Visit on Disaster Risk Management. The event aimed to facilitate structured exchange between high-level Caribbean decision-makers and European public, international and private-sector actors.
The Caribbean delegation included Ministers and senior officials responsible for disaster risk management, civil protection and climate resilience, as well as representatives from regional institutions such as the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), the University of the West Indies (UWI), and government representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
European participants included, among others, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), UN-SPIDER (UNOOSA), DHL Group Disaster Response Teams and Risklayer.
The German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) actively participated in the round table and presented its role as Germany’s national platform for disaster risk reduction. In this context, DKKV also represented the Bonn Network International Civil Protection and Disaster Risk Reduction, which connects international organisations, research institutions and operational actors in the UN city of Bonn.
The round table formed part of the strategic EU–Caribbean cooperation on resilience, early warning systems, climate services and disaster risk management, with a focus on identifying concrete partnership opportunities.
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