“Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction” National Sub Program has been implemented successfully

Thursday, December 17, 2015

National Authority for Emergency Management (NEMA) together with World Vision International Mongolia (WVIM) have implemented national sub program on“Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction”successfully for the last 3 years.

Within the framework of this sub program, nationwide totally 507 national trainers are prepared on themes such as Community participatory Vulnerability and Capacity assessment, Earthquake preparedness and First aid, Household disaster preparedness. These national trainers conducted training and 139922 people are involved in these training. Moreover, various behavior change communication (BCC) activities on disaster prevention are conducted nationwide including distribution of posters, handbooks, brochures and videos.

WVIM together with provincial and district emergency management departments have organized training on “Disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness of schools” nationwide and 604 (85%) social workers of the schools in 18 provinces and 9 districts participated in the training. Trained social workers have prepared 131472 children, 14879 parents, 14276 teachers and school staff on disaster risk reduction.

Furthermore, 110 schools developed their disaster preparedness plan in line with the risk assessment and got approval from the respective provincial or district emergency management department. Also some schools started impactful activities such as conducting activities on disaster prevention and preparedness, activities to reduce disaster risk and established school committee of disaster preparedness and prevention.

The closing ceremony of the sub program had been launched last week and Chief, Brigadier General of NEMA, Badral Tuvshin and country director of WVIM, Vincent Edwards, operational director, Dorona Javier, and national coordinator for HEA, Vanchindorj Baasaikhuu participated in this event.

The most significant activity on the closing ceremony of the sub program was signing of MOU between WVIM and NEMA during 2016-2018 and country director of WVIM, Vincent Edwards and Chief, Brigadier General of NEMA, Badral Tuvshin have signed the agreement.