Technical Team On Early Warning For Risk Management And Preparedness Formed In NBG A technical team for early warning, risk management and timely response in disaster management has been formed in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. 27 July 2015
By Agoth Abraham *AWEIL, July 24, 2015 [Gurtong] –*Under the theme ‘early warning, quick action leads to reduction of high risks and protection’ a seven-man committee comprising of experts from the National Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, UN for Development Program [UNDP], UN Office of Coordination and Humanitarian affairs [UNOCHA] and UN for World Food Programme [UNWFP] met in Aweil last week to train the technical team. The trainees were drawn from various government institutions, international humanitarian organizations civil societies, youth representatives and community leaders. While addressing the press in Aweil the head of WFP sub office in Aweil Mac Anyang said the newly formed technical team will be an eye to the humanitarian organizations especially in responding to any humanitarian needs reported by the team. He also highlighted the importance of how all the partnering international organizations will use the team for analyzing and processing of data collected for better planning. “This is a technically guided team from international organizations like WFP offering primary support on this and the major implementation role is being handled by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management. This is a very important move for all partnering humanitarian agencies to work closely together based on data this team will be collecting which can help in timely response in case of any risk and action for humanitarian needs.” Mac said. The Technical Advisor for the training, Mr. Pios Chris said the idea will help gather factual information from the grassroots level through the newly formed members for timely response to the community needs. He also noted that the team will involve almost all stakeholders in every State they will be operating in for the better circulation of who to do what when and how. The Relief and Rehabilitation commission was tasked to facilitate in daily activities of the project. It is expected that the team shall involve other stakeholders for wider representation before they move to the remote areas for the mobilization of communities for their involvement too. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14ooyp9RPq_Dps4NqnRLEkzid3D-N2BxMiO-m8kpJJy%3DmGQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
