Antonio Triglia - Formez

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Formez for Civil Protection
Activity, Experiences, Programmes
The importance of training and information
for Mayors and Municipal Administrators

• Antonio Triglia - Formez
• Bologna, May 25th and 26th, 2006

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Formez started its activity in the field of civil
protection in 1981 after the earthquake in the
Basilicata and Campania regions in November 1980.
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Since the '80s, in collaboration with the
Department of Civil Protection, Formez has
realized

• Short seminars and courses on topics related to
  civil protection aimed at
• civil protection administrators and technicians
  in local administrations
• volunteers

Basic courses for civil protection operators in
local authorities
Training on forest fire-fighting and
environmental protection
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In this framework, Formez actions give support
to the activities of local authorities in the
governance of civil protection,
THROUGH TRAINING ON
SPECIFIC SKILLS
FOR
DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES REGARDING TERRITORY
AND CIVIL PROTECTION
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Training aims to help the response to needs
arising during a disaster, as well as
and
FORECASTING
PREVENTION
As preliminary steps before the MANAGEMENT of a
CRISIS or the necessity to COPE WITH and RECOVER
FROM DISASTERS
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Among the several activities that Formez has
realized, particular attention must go to
the
INTEGRATED TRAINING PROJECT 2001-2003
in favour of local authorities and volunteer
organizations, realized in accordance with the
Italian Department of Civil Protection and
addressed to
Managers and civil servants from local
administrations
Volunteers from Civil Protection ONGs
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The main training activities realized over three
years 2001-2003, were
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Base Courses for Civil Protection Operators
40 days - 280 hours
The total duration was
organized in 8 one-week modules
which were held one week every month
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11 courses on hydraulic and landslide risks were
held in order to develop the skills for dealing
with a risk that could involve all the Italian
territory
10 courses were realized in order to develop the
abilities of assessing seismic vulnerability and
issues concerning the feasibility of buildings in
the case of earthquakes
Every course was organized in a one-week class
and a three-week workshops either on the spot
or through simulated practice on a computer
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• Realization of
• Courses in order to provide methods to improve
  the organizational, logistic and managerial
  aspects of volunteer associations
• Courses on forest fire-fighting
• Courses for training the trainers

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Since 2004, with regard to civil protection
topics, Formez has realised
Masters Courses for Civil Protection Operators
(Disaster Management )
International activities
A project aimed at Mayors and Municipal
Administrators
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International Activities
PROJECT ALBA 2 - Actions and Learning to
establish cooperation projects in Albania
PILOT PROJECT Cross-cut effects of the Model of
Management of Industrial Accidents, in the main
and lower basin of the Danube
BALKAN PROJECT Regional cooperation initiative
strengthening and qualification of public
administrations in Six Balkan countries
China Europe Public Administration (CEPA)
Programme
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Actions and Learning to establish cooperation
projects in Albania

• The ALBA Project was mainly aimed at
  strengthening the local institutions of the
  Shkoder region (North of Albania) in view of
  implementing the decentralization process.
• The actions to support the development of civil
  protection have been realized along two lines
• a course for the Prefecture, the Municipality
  and the Region of Shkoder on planning and
  managing emergencies. The prefecture has also
  been supplied with a radio room and radio links
  of medium dimensions
• the project Sure School" for the schools in
  Shkoder aimed at teachers, through whom the
  project would reach the pupils by using books
  and games

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PILOT PROJECT Cross-cut effects of the Model of
Management of Industrial Accidents, in the main
and lower basin of the Danube (TEIAMM)

• The TEIAMM Project was developed to provide a
  research and training programme by elaborating
  and implementing a quick methodological
  operational model. The main goals of the project
  were
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• to arrange and organize external Emergency Plans,
  with the necessary technical, procedural and
  organizational measures, in order to prevent and
  minimize the effects of industrial accidents
• to follow and manage, in real time and in a
  proper way, the emergencies affecting the areas
  near the industrial areas, with special attention
  to possible effects along country borders
• to provide support to the Capacity Building
  initiatives and aid to the national authorities
  through technical assistance, information and
  training.

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PILOT PROJECT Cross-cut effects of the Model of
Management of Industrial Accidents, in the main
and lower basin of the Danube (TEIAMM 2)
Formez, in collaboration with IBM-Sistemi
Informativi, ICARO and the Italian Ministry for
the Environment, has currently implemented a
management system to cope with environ-mental
damage caused by industrial accidents, through a
web-network based on inter-connectivity and
geographical distribution.
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BALKAN PROJECT Regional cooperation initiative
strengthening and qualification of public
administrations in Six Balkan countries
The Initiative aims at educating and qualifying
managers and executives from the Balkan Countries
at various levels in order to create a
non-military oriented administration for civil
protection.

• The medium-term objectives in the area of Civil
  Protection are
• To provide knowledge and tools to people
  operating in civil protection in the Balkan
  Countries to enable them to act in a more
  effective way
• To increase their planning and crisis management
  capabilities
• To enhance the exchange of experiences and
  information with other countries and facilitate
  interaction

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China Europe Public Administration (CEPA)
Programme

• The CEPA Project aims
• to supply technical assistance to the Chinese
  Public Administration from 2003 to 2007,
• to assist the process of Chinese economic and
  social reform by increasing the exchange of
  knowledge about Public Administration Management
  between China and the European Union
• Formez has been invited to carry out cycles of
  lessons on "Crisis Management and Civil
  Protection" and to organize study trips and
  internships for Chinese delegations in Europe in
  order to study this theme

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The Mayors (and Municipal Administrators) Project
In the ambit of the strategies for governing the
territory and the new institutional order of
Civil Protection, the project refers to the
Mayor as a key actor who plays a primary role as
an authority for civil protection. However Mayors
face no little problems because of their
difficulties in correctly interpreting their role
and related tasks
On one hand, such difficulties can be
ascribed to the lack of training and information
for local administrators, on the other, to the
number of commitments among which civil
protection is low in the scale of priority
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The training objectives
The Mayors Project

• To make the mayors aware of the role that the
  civil protection system assigns to them as well
  as the legal and penal consequences if they do
  not accomplish their tasks
• To equip the mayors with cognitive instruments in
  order to allow them to manage the complex system
  of civil protection prevision and prevention,
  emergency planning and management, recovery to
  normality
• To facilitate and increase the exchange of
  experiences and information among all those who
  deal with civil protection
• To encourage the creation of a "network" of
  administrators for civil protection. (i.e. a
  professional community) able to support the
  choices and the responsibilities of each single
  administrator

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The Mayors Project
The Thematic Areas

• The Technical-Scientific Committee, in synergy
  with the Regional representatives, has defined
  the macro-areas for the development of training
  and information methods
• emergency planning and management
• legislation and jurisprudence
• administration and finance
• the system of civil protection.

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The Mayors Project
Constraints and Solutions
The teaching planning will have the purpose to
optimize the limited time available to the mayors
as well as to cover the gap of training and
information on civil protection topics.

• Web solutions
• the training/information path foresees the
  organization of brief seminars and the use of web
  and e-learning IT
• the transfer and dissemination of know-how with
  flexible web-based methods
• the creation of a professional on line
  community for the exchange of opinions and
  experiences among mayors and administrators

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The on-line community

• Objectives
• to consolidate their know-how
• to respond to the needs of users for training and
  information  
• Channel focus mayors
• on-line community mayors

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The on-line community
Content

• Information/training path a slide-show of 12
  hours
• news
• library
• glossary
• norms and jurisprudence
• Forum let us talk of civil protection
• regional pages
• experiences
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) topics on
  civil protection and technical assistance

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The on-line community
www. formez.it
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The on-line community

• Tools for information and communication
• Points of reference for the professional
  communities
• Doors of access to communities

www. protezionecivile.formez.it
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The on-line community

• Key points
• general information on the "Mayors" project
• news about the project
• login to enter the community

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The on-line community
Forum let us talk of civil protection
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The on-line community
Library
Glossary
Norms and Jurisprudence
Regional Pages
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The on-line community
Library
Glossary
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The on-line community
Regional Pages
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The on-line community
News
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The on-line community
Information/training path slide-show of 12
hours
Index
4. Management of Emergencies 4,1
Legislation 4,2 Procedures 4,3 Augustus method
4,4 Command and control 4,5 C.O.C. and C.O.M

• 1. What is civil protection?
• 1,1 Historical and rule-making evolution
• 1,2 Collection of standards
• 1,3 The organization of civil protection
• 1,4 Risks

2. The Department of Civil Protection
5. Mayors and civil protection 5,1 Rule-making
evolution 5,2 Small and medium municipalities
5,3 Tasks and functions 5,4 Prescriptive,
economic and administrative tools 5,5 Communal
plan of civil protection 5,6 Programming and
prevention 5,7 Communication
3. Planning 3,1 Planning methods 3,2 Different
planning methods according to different
institutions 3,3 Different planning methods
according to different risks
6. Emergency in pills