Emergency
Management Training in Kyrgyzstan
In May 2006, InterWorks conducted an Emergency Management
Training Workshop in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The workshop,
organized as a joint effort of United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and United Nations High Commission for
Refugees (UNHCR) was built from a standard Situational
Emergency Training workshop (SET). The SET workshop is
one of several workshops, developed by InterWorks for
UNHCR.
The Kyrgyzstan Workshop:
The Emergency Management Training workshop in Kyrgyzstan,
based on the SET workshop, was customized to meet the
training needs of the requesting UNDP and UNHCR in Kyrgyzstan.
The workshop was conducted in English with simultaneous
translation in Russian. In this workshop, participants
from government and UN agencies jointly considered three
possible disaster/emergency scenarios (refugee crisis,
earthquake, and environmental disaster) and developed
draft contingency plans for each.
About SET workshops:
The Situational Emergency Training workshops (SET) began
in 2002, replacing the UNHCR’s Emergency Management
Training Programme (EMTP). For UNHCR’s EMTP, InterWorks
has designed training programs, served as field coordinators
and workshop facilitators. As part of this project, InterWorks
delivered workshops in over 50 countries on five continents.
The overall objective of SET workshops is to provide staff
from UNHCR and its partners with comprehensive training
in emergency management in order to improve their preparedness
to respond to emergency situations. SETs are offered to
mid-level career managers and support staff preferably
with some emergency and field experience. The training
focuses on the local emergency refugee situation and places
a high priority on team planning for a specific emergency
operation. The workshops also introduce participants to
key emergency planning and management skills in priority
areas such as contingency planning, coordination, protection,
security and operations.
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