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Friday, February 06, 2004 - As a three-day CEDERA/CDB Hazard Mitigation and Planning workshop closed here on Thursday, February, 5th, 2004 work has commenced in earnest on the development of a more comprehensive approach towards disaster management. The new focus, being spearheaded by CEDERA under its Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) project, takes in account several activities of day to day living that require advance planning for disaster mitigation and reduction.

Information Manager at the Barbados headquartered CEDERA Terry Ally, said there was a dire need to move away from the response and relief culture to a more holistic preparedness culture. That quest he noted would call for getting the entire population of a country on board in order to achieve success. “This in itself is a very mammoth task,” said Ally, quickly pointing out however that it was not impossible.

To date a major initiative is underway aimed at heightening public awareness on this culture of preparedness though multi-media technology. That process is to be led by the various Government Information Services throughout the region. The hope is for the conceptualized of a campaign designed to bring the various publics from all member countries on board in order to foster that culture.

Talks have already taken place with GIS representatives in Barbados, Grenada and St. Lucia with CEDERA due to hold dialogue with media representatives in Belize in the coming weeks.

 

 


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