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Exercise Management, Suva, Fiji
Recognising the need to increase the number of personnel available to design and conduct Exercises, the
National Disaster Management Office in
Fiji requested support for the delivery of Exercise Management
training. The course, held in May, provided 19 participants from across government, Fiji Red Cross and NGOs
with an understanding of the steps involved in the design, development and conduct of emergency exercises.
Participants developed their own exercises during the training and set timelines for their learning to be put
into action with an 'Exercise' tentatively scheduled for November 2013.
Evacuation Centre Management, Suva, Fiji; Honiara, Solomon Islands; and
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
The revised Evacuation Centre Management course has
been delivered in
Fiji, Solomon Islands and the Cook
Islands. The review of the course materials was conducted
following requests from countries to provide them with
support to strengthen the quality of management of
evacuation centres. The course provides
participants
with an introduction to the basic principles of evacuation
centre management, encompassing appropriate building
requirements, facilities and equipment and the functions
or services that should be provided to evacuees.
The
course can also be used as a basis to develop national
guidelines and /or standard operating procedures (SOPs)
for evacuation centre management. In Fiji the course was followed with a one day workshop
to kick -start the drafting of national guidelines for evacuation centre management. In total 70
attended this training [Fiji (23), Solomon Islands (22) and Cook Islands (25)].
led by RedR
people have
Disaster Risk Reduction, Rarotonga, Cook Islands and Pohnpei, Federated
States of Micronesia
The Cook Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia have become the fifth and sixth countries to participate
in the new Disaster Risk Reduction training. The course provides participants from across government, national
Red Cross societies and civil society organizations with an introduction to disaster risk reduction terminology,
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