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Footprints - Newsletter of the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network

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Bula Vinaka and Welcome to Footprints – the official newsletter of the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network. Since reintroducing the newsletter in the last quarter of 2007, we have ‘reinvented’ the publication in an effort to be more reader-friendly in 2010. The changes include a new layout. The title reflects the collective ‘steps’ taken by the partners, working with Pacific island country representatives, toward achieving the desired outcomes of the Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Framework for Action 2005-2015.In taking each step we leave behind ‘footprints’ as a record of where we have been, what we have done and what we have accomplished. I invite all partners to contribute regularly to Footprints.
Mosese Sikivou
Programme Manager - Community Risk

IN THIS ISSUE

  • Next Round of Progress Reporting against the Hyogo Framework for Action
  • Launch of the biennial progress review of the Pacific DRR & DM Framework for Action and the HFA
  • Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific
  • Update on Tsunami Capacity Assessments and follow on projects for Pacific island countries
  • Building Back Better
  • The Pacific Humanitarian Team and the Regional Cluster approach
  • Pacific-Caribbean? dialogue on disaster risk management for small islands
  • Scientists gather information for disaster preparedness
  • Review of the Palau National Disaster Risk Management Framework 2010
  • Domestic Legal Preparedness for Foreign Disaster Assistance in the Pacific
  • UNDP delivers Early Recovery Training for UNDP staff and Government counterparts
  • Seeking Post-Disaster? Indirect and Intangible Loss Indicators
  • Standardisation of the Samoa fire fighting fleet

Read Full Issue Here

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 June 2010 12:09  

Newsflash

Participants from Palau Government departments, Palau Red Cross and the media attended training last week on establishing and managing Emergency Operations Centers.

In 2012, Typhoon Bopha impacted Palau and affected hundreds of people and destroyed 70 homes, displacing 131 people, while in 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the whole northern-most state of Kayangel, destroying 39 homes and severely damaging dwellings from Babeldaob to Koror.

These two events highlighted a need for Palau to increase the number of personnel trained to manage the response to emergencies and to work in the National Emergency Operations Center. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), through support from the European Union project, Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific, is working with Palau to address this need by providing training in Emergency Operations Centers for 17 representatives of government, civil society and the media.

Ms Priscilla Subris, Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Office, opened the week-long training by stressing the importance of all agencies working together and thanking participants for taking the time ‘to learn how to be part of Palau’s response to future emergencies’.