Last Updated on October 24, 2020, 9:15 AM AST by Anthony Morris
The Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College/National Emergency Management Agency Disaster Risk Reduction Education Programme was launched officially on October 22.
Director of Programme and Institutional Development at the CFBC, Dr Leighton Naraine, said while speaking at the launch, that the programme was conceptualized by CFBC and developed in partnership with NEMA.
Dr Naraine said that the USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance funded the programme.
The Research Triangular Institute, based in Costa Rica, represents the USAID BHA and has oversite of the project with competencies in disaster risk reduction and management and technical expertise within the Caribbean countries and Latin America and under the Regional Disaster Risk Assistance Programme.
He stated that the highlights of the curriculum are the trainees, professional educators, and social milieu.
He said that the purpose of the programme is to build capacity through education and to strengthen the relationships with people and organizations in communities for building adaptive capacities vis-à-vis anthropogenic or natural hazards and human hazards which are ever-present and posing risks to human life, the environment and property.
He said that adaptive capacities would help them to build resilience in the event of a disaster relating to any of the hazards.
The programme, which utilizes the CEDEMA framework consists of six modules, which will be publicized.
Dr Naraine added that the project is expected to develop a cadre of trainees who would become trainers and to further build capacity in the mainstream of the education system and communities.
He said that the trainees would collaborate with the trainers now. They would become trainers and take it far and wide into the depths of the communities.
The launch follows all the preparation required before delivering the sessions that would start on October 26, 2020.
The Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College/National Emergency Management Agency Disaster Risk Reduction Education Programme was launched officially on October 22.
Director of Programme and Institutional Development at the CFBC, Dr Leighton Naraine, said while speaking at the launch, that the programme was conceptualized by CFBC and developed in partnership with NEMA.
Dr Naraine said that the USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance funded the programme.
The Research Triangular Institute, based in Costa Rica, represents the USAID BHA and has oversite of the project with competencies in disaster risk reduction and management and technical expertise within the Caribbean countries and Latin America and under the Regional Disaster Risk Assistance Programme.
He stated that the highlights of the curriculum are the trainees, professional educators, and social milieu.
He said that the purpose of the programme is to build capacity through education and to strengthen the relationships with people and organizations in communities for building adaptive capacities vis-à-vis anthropogenic or natural hazards and human hazards which are ever-present and posing risks to human life, the environment and property.
He said that adaptive capacities would help them to build resilience in the event of a disaster relating to any of the hazards.
The programme, which utilizes the CEDEMA framework consists of six modules, which will be publicized.
Dr Naraine added that the project is expected to develop a cadre of trainees who would become trainers and to further build capacity in the mainstream of the education system and communities.
He said that the trainees would collaborate with the trainers now. They would become trainers and take it far and wide into the depths of the communities.
The launch follows all the preparation required before delivering the sessions that would start on October 26, 2020.
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