DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND PREVENTION INITIATIVE

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• DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND PREVENTION INITIATIVE
• DPPI
• SEESIM-04, CAX
• Istanbul, Turkey, 03-12 Nov 2004

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• The Stability Pact for SEE
• A political initiative to encourage and
  strengthen cooperation
• An instrument to coordinate and facilitate the
  implementation of the projects of all its
  partners

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• Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Initiative
• Initiated in early 2000
• DPPI -First Operational Step was an assessment of
  the needs and capacities of 12 countries
• Regional Report

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• The Declaration on Cooperation in Disaster
  Preparedness and Prevention in South Eastern
  Europe, Bucharest on 5 June 2002
• Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
  Croatia, FR Yugoslavia, Greece, Hungary, FYR
  Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey
• DPPI Action Plan 2002 2006, Sofia,16-18 Sep
  2002

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• The DPPI attempts
• Strengthen good neighborly relations and
  stability through the exchange of information,
  lessons learnt and best practices in the field of
  disaster management
• Enhance cooperation between DPPI partners in view
  of EU enlargement and the process of Euro -
  Atlantic integration for SEE countries
• Support and encourage countries in the region to
  develop, adopt and/or enforce state-of-art
  disaster emergency legislation, environmental
  regulations and codes designed to prevent and
  mitigate disasters in line with guidelines and
  common practices accepted in the international
  community

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• The DPPI Strategy
• To establish a regional DPP / SEE hub for
  information exchange, including but not limited
  to planed and in implementation phase projects
  from different organizations and networks in the
  region
• To support the development of certain Regional
  Standards" accepted in the international
  community, through project facilitation.
• To develop guidelines for regional project
  proposals

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• Activities of the DPPI
• Regional DPPI Meetings
• Permanent Information Exchange
• Semi-annual meetings of the Advisory Board
• Cooperation and Coordination with all
  Organisations and Initiatives involved in
  Disaster Preparedness and Prevention
• DPPI participation in Meetings/Seminars/Workshops
  and other relevant events related to disaster
  preparedness prevention for SEE
• Permanent up-dating of the DPPI web page with all
  relevant information

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• Project Facilitation
• Project on Disaster Management Training for SEE
  (Slovenia/Croatia)
• Project Seismological Network for SEE (Moldova,
  Bulgaria and Romania)
• Hydro-meteorological Network for SEE(Croatia)
• Earthquake Monitoring in SEE
• Project PREMIAN (Romania, in context of EC SEVESO
  II Dir),
• Joint Fire-fighting Unit (BIH/Croatia/Serbia
  Montenegro)

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• DPPI Partners or (Work hand-in-hand with)
• International Organizations, (UNDP, UN-OCHA,
  NATO, IFRC, SRSA Sweden, OSCE etc)
• Non-Governmental Organizations East West
  Institute, HELP etc.)
• Other Initiatives and Networks is SEE CMEPC,
  RACVIAC, SEESIM-04, etc.)

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• The DPPI Goal and Objectives
• (Interest of the DPPI in SEESIM-04)
• Foster good regional co-operation and
  co-ordination
• Enhance cooperation between countries of SEE
  (DPPI partners)
• Supports and encourages countries in the region

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• The Strengthening of the Network of SEE
• Countries and International Organizations/
  Initiatives,Non-Governmental Organizations and
• Cooperation in the Disaster Management Field

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• www.dppi.info
• Thank you

Miroslav Vujanic DPPI Project Assistant Stability
Pact SEE miro.vujanic_at_stabilitypact.org