By country: Mexico

Government programmes

• National Financial Education Week, Comisión Nacional para la Protección y Defensa de los Usuarios de Servicios Financieros - Commission for the Protection of Users of Financial Services (CONDUSEF), www.condusef.gob.mx. 
  The Mexican Government, through CONDUSEF, in conjunction with more than a hundred businesses and non-profit organizations have chosen the week of the 19th through the 23rd of October of 2009 to undertake the activities of the Second National Financial Education Week.
  Universidad Panamericana, www.up.edu.mx, an institution of higher education with more than 40 years of experience in the country, is the thematic coordinator for the Family Budget topic, with particular emphasis on the importance of building home expense budgets.

• Civil Protection Agency (National: Public Sector)
  The Civil Protection Agency (Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil) website provides basic and technical reports on several natural and human induced disasters. It also has an up-to-date information bulletin to disseminate information on developing hazards and weather/volcanic watches.
  www.proteccioncivil.gob.mx

• Fondo Nacional de Desastres Naturales (National: Public Sector)
  The Fondo Nacional de Desastres Naturales (FONDEN) is one of the primary mechanisms that the Mexican Civil Protection Agency uses to meet its responsibilities in the event of a disaster. The Natural Disaster Fund has two goals: 1) Prevention of events as part of a development strategy and 2) Insuring that reconstruction contributes to a reduction in vulnerability. It should be noted that the National Disaster Fund is considered complimentary support and not as the sole instrument for disaster prevention.
  http://www.gobernacion.gob.mx
• Mexican Red Cross (National: Public Sector)
  The Mexican Red Cross has developed a 20 second spot for television and radio promoting hurricane preparedness. They have also recently begun to include risk awareness and risk reduction education in their public training programs. Some local chapters of the organization have been trained in vulnerability and capacity assessment, a process that can heighten public awareness and promote risk reduction activities.
  http://www.cruzrojamexicana.org/
• National Disaster Prevention Centre (National: Cross Sectoral)
  The National Disaster Prevention Centre (Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres) provides information on natural and anthropogenic risk developments for the government and the public, as well as actions that can be taken to mitigate the negative consequences of a disaster. The centre also has written training material for civil protection agents.
  http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/es/
• Regional Center for Information on Disasters (International: Public-Civic Partnership)
  The Regional Center for Information on Disasters (Centro Regional de Información sobre Desastres) has disaster education resources for Latin America and the Caribbean, including a virtual library.
  http://www.crid.or.cr/crid/esp/index.html
• Safety Week (National: Public Sector)
  The Comision Nacional de Seguros y Financieros (CNSF) in Mexico seeks to enhance catastrophic risk-exposure awareness through Safety Week organized by an association of insurance agents in primary schools.
  www.cnsf.gob.mx
• Secretary of Public Education for Mexico (National: Public Sector)
  Risk education is taught as part of the Geography of Mexico and World Geography curriculum in the first year of Secondary School in Mexico. Mexican students are taught the processes that transform geography of a region from a sustainable development perspective, population dynamics, economic interdependence, cultural diversity, political organization and the prevention of natural disaster at the national and international level.
  http://www.reformasecundaria.sep.gob.mx/geografia/sitios.html