| Agency Name: | Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (CONRED) |
| Seal: | Logo de CONRED.jpg |
| Formed: | November 11, 1996 |
| Preceding1: | Comité Nacional de Emergencia (CONE) |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Guatemala |
| Headquarters: | Avenida Hincapié 21-72, Zona 13, Guatemala City |
| Budget: | Q. 42 million |
| Chief1 Name: | Oscar Estuardo Cossío Cámara |
| Chief1 Position: | Executive Secretary |
| Chief2 Name: | Sergio Antonio Reyes Recinos |
| Chief2 Position: | Undersecretary for Coordination and Administration |
| Chief3 Name: | Walter René Monroy Valenzuela |
| Chief3 Position: | Undersecretary for Risk Reduction Management |
| Website: | www.conred.gob.gt |
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.[1] [2] 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.[3]
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 .[4] The organization was intended as a civilian successor to CONE, the military-led National Committee on Emergency.[5]
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| Officeholder | From | To | |
| Colonel Homero García | 1997 | 1998 | |
| Jorge Estuardo Ayala Marroquín | 1999 | 2000 | |
| Alejandro Maldonado Lutomirsky | 2000 | 2004 | |
| Hugo René Hernández | 2004 | 2008 | |
| Alejandro Maldonado Lutomirsky | 2008 | 2016 | |
| Sergio Garcia Cabañas | 2016 | 2020 | |
| Colonel Miguel Ángel Escribá Pimentel | 2020 | 2020 | |
| General Oscar Estuardo Cossío Cámara | 2020 | present | |