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2020/12/24 17:53 Hurricane Iota battered Central America in early November. Hurricane Iota battered Central America in early November. (AP photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) said Thursday (Dec. 24) that Taiwan had helped Belize mitigate the damage wrought by Hurricanes Eta and Iota in November with its disaster prevention technology. During a press conference Thursday morning, ICDF Deputy Secretary-General Chen Ai-chen (陳愛貞) said Taiwan and its Central American ally had launched the Belize Urban Resilience and Disaster Prevention (BURDP) project in 2019. She said the three-year cooperation includes integrating Taiwan’s early warning system for floods into Belize s disaster management protocols.