The capacity of a community for coordinated response is crucial when disasters occur. For the purpose of enhancing the overall response capacities in the PPRD South partner countries, as well as to improve the coordination and cooperation between the Mediterranean Partner Countries and the EU Members States in case of disasters, the PPRD South will organise and implement a full scale exercise and three targeted trainings followed by table-top exercises.

The main objectives of those actions are

• learning to work together
• improving the understanding of the international civil protection context
• familiarising with the best practices and tools for crisis management

The awareness by the PPRD South partner countries of the Community Civil Protection Mechanism will be reinforced, so as to take advantage of assistance by contacting the MIC in the event of disasters.

 Preliminary schedule of training workshops/table top-exercises

The full-scale exercise will be organized during the third year of the Programme. The theme and specific modalities of implementation will be defined in the next future.

During the full-scale exercise, attention will be given to the cooperation, in particular, with the Community Civil Protection Mechanism in view of improving the capacity for mutual assistance, as well as with the UN system and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC.