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Building on the Introduction to Disaster Management training conducted in November 2011, the Nauru
National Disaster Risk Management Office (NDRMO) recently organised Emergency Operations Centres
training targeting key stakeholder personnel from the Nauru Police Force, Fire and Rescue Service, Department
of Health, the Utilities Corporation, Civil Aviation, Department of Marine and Fisheries, Department of
Commerce, Environment and Industry and the Phosphate Corporation (RonPhos). The Emergency Operations
Centres training, held from the 25
th
of April to the 1
st
of May was requested by the NDRMO and the National
Disaster Risk Management Council as part of the process towards the development of Nauru’s National DRM
Action Plan.
During the opening for the training, Acting Chief Secretary Mr. Bernard Grundler, stressed the importance of
raising the level of disaster preparedness in Nauru and paying due attention to the underlying risk factors that
contribute to the island’s vulnerability to hazards. He added that an increase in natural hazards equates to
increased risk of disasters for Pacific Island countries and Nauru is no exception.
Mr Grundler was one of the twenty-one (21) officials who successfully completed the training, developing a
clearer understanding of their roles in the establishment and management of Emergency Operations Centres
in Nauru. In closing the five-day course, the National Disaster Controller and Commissioner of the Nauru Police
Force, Mr Richard Britten, said that this training was an important element in the national DRM capacity
building process. He added that the National Disaster Risk Management Council of Nauru is confident that the
participants will apply the skills and knowledge gained from the course in their workplaces and when required
will provide support to the NDRMO to manage the National EOC.
The training was facilitated by regional trainers from the Pacific Disaster RiskManagement Training Programme
based in Suva, Fiji assisted by Roy Harris, Nauru’s Deputy National Disaster Controller. Support for this training
course was provided by the AusAID funded National Disaster Facility at SPC/SOPAC and The Asia Foundation
with support from the USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA).
Nauru: Emergency Operations Centres
Training
Participants practice the use of forms and information displays during an exercise
at the EOC training.
Participants and facilitators of the Emergency Operations Centre training that was
conducted in Nauru from 25th April to 1st May, 2012.