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Mar 30, 2009 News
Oxfam, over the weekend, announced the completion of its Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Programme in Guyana.
The programme saw 18 Local Emergency Committees (LEC) being trained in Region Four, which will enable them to soften the impact of flooding in their communities.
The project, dubbed ‘Strengthening Disaster Preparedness and Reducing Vulnerabilities in Flood Prone Areas,’ was funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), under its Disaster Preparedness ECHO (DIPECHO) VI Action Plan, and was implemented during the last 17 months by Oxfam and Women Across Difference (WAD).
One of the main aims of the project was to increase the awareness and knowledge of community members of both the consequences of their own actions and the importance of personal responsibility in preparing for disasters.
Some 25,000 persons, living in flood-prone areas, are expected to benefit from the venture.
Ideas and strategies, which can be continued to the development of an integrated strategy for disaster management risk in Guyana, were also introduced.
Project coordinator at Oxfam, Paula Brennan said, “Many people have invested heavily in order to establish, train and support a local capacity to mitigate the effects of flooding.” She added that the completion of the project saw a wealth of knowledge, expertise and motivation being endowed to the communities where the project was put into action.
Moreso, Brennan said that these communities were, “put to the test in the flooding earlier this year with good results.”
Apart from the knowledge imparted to the communities, many valuable materials, including training modules to Local Emergency Plans, were left in the communities, to be used to help further strengthen and grow the existing LECs.
The activities, which were implemented in the various communities, included the establishment of Local Emergency Committees, the training of committee members in first aid, the Installation of signposts marking flood evacuation routes, and information boards and school-based public health promotion training, among others.
Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies around the world to bring about lasting change. Oxfam works directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.
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