The training course on disaster risk management started this Monday, March 18, 2019, at the peace keeping school (EMP) Alioune Blondin Beye.
Financed by Japan, this session is held from 18 to 29 March 2019, under the supervision of Lieutenant-Colonel Tony VITECK, German cooperant and head of management and planning of the training session. It Includes some 30 participants composed of men and women, military or paramilitary civilians, from 8 West African countries, including Mali.
The objectives of the training session : understanding terminologies and different types of disasters, identifying different actors and their roles in disaster management, contributing to the development of a contingency plan, acquiring notions about disaster medicine.
It is also aiming at acquiring tools on communication in crisis situations, studying several scenarios during which aDRM process was conducted, acquiring the practical knowledge to be applied in an RCMP process. For two weeks, participants will familiarize themselves with the concepts and mechanisms of disaster risk management (DRM), namely: participate in the planning and operational management of a disaster.
At the opening of the work, Lieutenant-Colonel ALIOU baby, Director of training of the EMP, made a brief presentation of the school of peacekeeping Alioune Blondin Beye (EMP-ABB). This centre of excellence of the African Union and ECOWAS, established in 1999, was set up in Bamako in 2007.
Its mission, through a multidisciplinary quality education, adapted to African realities, open to the world and based on the concepts of peace and security, to contribute to the strengthening of African States ‘ capacity to support priority of the ECOWAS standby force (FAC).
« This teaching is aimed at the three components of the CAF, military, police and civilian, » he says. According to Lieutenant-Colonel baby, the participation of the Faculty of medicine and Odontostomatology (FMOS) in this training, is explained by the fact that through its Department of education and research in public health (DERSP), it develops a master in The DRM .
Ibrahima DIA/FMOS-COMMUNICATION
