The CMO and the Disaster Reduction and Recovery Unit/UNDP regional office in the Caribbean collaborated on another project directly linked to the radar project. This one year project, funded through the regional Disaster Preparedness Program – ECHO, will use the radar images provided by the new network which would then made available, with appropriate training, to natural disaster preparedness organizations and agencies in the Caribbean. The CMO/UNDP collaboration will start with existing radars in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic , both of which will cover these two countries and Haiti . The idea is to extend this dynamic to the rest of the region once the four new radars become operational.
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Caribbean Project, a project funded by the Government of Finland under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), aims to provide tools for better planning for sustainable development in the Caribbean region, by strengthening the National Meteorological Services so that they are able to provide information needed for planning purposes at national and international levels, and to make the respective countries capable of fulfilling international commitments.
There are six components in the project: