Regional Program to Strengthen Disaster Risk Management in Metropolitan Areas of the SICA Region. Raise awareness of development processes based on knowledge of risks at all levels —both individual decision makers and experts in administrations, ministries and regional organizations as well as at the level of organizations as a whole—and improve implementation and adaptation capacity, especially at the urban level, to respond to the increasing number of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, through planning prospective, capacity development, interconnection and support models.