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After concluding a year-long engagement with Barbados in which the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) presented the results of the country’s National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment, the Center reunited with its partners at the Barbados Department of Emergency Management (DEM) to participate in the 2024 Tradewinds exercise. Tradewinds is a large-scale, multinational exercise that takes place
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Sending a big mahalo (thank you/terima kasih) to our partners at Indonesia’s national disaster management office, Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB)!
Today’s training included 10 participants from BNPB’s operations department, PUSDALOPS, and was designed to further enhance and build upon skills and knowledge to operationally utilize InAWARE—a custom version of PDC’s global, multi-hazard early warning and decision support application, DisasterAWARE (learn more at pdc.org/DisasterAWARE).
Along with Thursday’s planned Transition and Sustainment Plan Briefing engagement, this marks the final activities under the USAID-funded INVEST DM program to reinstate and update the InAWARE system.
We look forward to our continued partnership and are inspired by your ongoing commitment and dedication toward building a #SaferWorld!
#EarlyWarningforAll #SaferWorld #Indonesia #InAWARE
Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana
USAID Indonesia Mercy Corps Indonesia
Congratulations to the IAEA, Oakland University, and PDC team for our recent win at the 2024 SAS Hackathon! This recognition was awarded for our collective and innovative work exploring the implications of climate change on nuclear facility vulnerabilities to natural hazards.
It was a privilege to work alongside such stellar professionals and a great team. Looking forward to future collaborations!
#SaferWorld #EarlyWarningForAll #SASHackathon
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Oakland University
SAS Software
PDC continues to support our partners in the Philippines as life-threatening winds, floods, and storm surge from Typhoon Man-yi impact communities recovering from the recent multiple cyclones that have impacted the northern part of the country over the past few weeks.
See below the Joint Analysis of Disaster Exposure (JADE) PDC produced in collaboration with our partners at UNOCHA and WFP.
Monitor DisasterAWARE for updates with each new advisory:
>>> Learn more at www.pdc.org/disasteraware/
>>> Download the free Disaster Alert app on Google Play or the iOS App Store and stay alert! (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app store.)
#EarlyWarningforAll #SaferWorld #PepitoPH #Philippines #typhoonmanyi
Civil Defense PH
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United Nations OCHA
World Food Programme #NDRRMC NDRRMC #typhoon
Man-yi (locally named Pepito), continues to strengthen as it approaches the Philippines as an extremely powerful and dangerous typhoon. According to PDC’s latest Event Brief and advanced analytics, an estimated 17.5 Million people may be exposed to damaging winds along Man-yi’s forecast path. Life-threatening floods and storm surge are also anticipated, including the risk of landslides.
Multiple cyclones have impacted the northern Philippines over the past few weeks, damaging homes and triggering destructive floods and landslides. The most recent, Usagi, is now approaching Taiwan as a tropical storm.
Monitor DisasterAWARE for updates with each new advisory:
>>> Learn more at www.pdc.org/disasteraware/
>>> Download the free Disaster Alert app on Google Play or the iOS App Store and stay alert! (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app store.)
#EarlyWarningforAll #SaferWorld #PepitoPH #Philippines #typhoon
Civil Defense PH Dost_pagasa #NDRRMC NDRRMC
Honoring our veterans and giving a special salute to those supporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) efforts around the world. Mahalo (thank you) for your service.
#SaferWorld #EarlyWarningForAll #VeteransDay #happyveteransday
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
U.S. Northern Command
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)
U.S. Central Command
U.S. European Command (EUCOM)
Hawaii Army National Guard
Hawaii Air National Guard
The National Guard
PDC just wrapped up participation in an energizing and effective two-day Montreal Climate Security Summit, co-hosted by our partners at the new NATO Climate Change and Security Center of Excellence.
Excellent speakers include the Canadian and Norwegian Ministers of Foreign Affairs, former DASDs Dr. Sherri Goodman and Caroline Baxter, as well as PDC's Deputy Executive Director, Dr. Erin Hughey. More than 200 in-person participants joined from nations across NATO, including representatives from government, academia, and the private sector.
***Key takeaway: Climate security is integral to national and partner nation defense efforts, with a need to leverage good data and analysis to support timely decision-making, particularly as we approach climate impact tipping points. Making climate security mission decisions "chop, chop" was the call for action, and PDC is engaged!
Watch the full panel at CPAC here (start at 5:05:30): www.cpac.ca/public-record/episode/montreal-climate-security-summit?id=eb41b396-380f-4745-8574-190...
#SaferWorld #MCSS2024 #ClimateAction
@CCASCOE (NATO Climate Change and Security Center of Excellence)
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)
William J. Perry Center For Hemispheric Defense Studies
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Wilson Center
Sending a big Mahalo (thank you) to our partners at Singapore's Changi Regional Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Coordination Centre (Changi RHCC)!
It was great having our partners from the policy and planning office onsite last week as we continue our successful collaboration to advance regional early warning, risk assessments, technological innovations, and operational capacity building for disaster management.
#SaferWorld #EarlyWarningforAll #Singapore Changi RHCC Ministry of Defence, Singapore (MINDEF)
Sending aloha to our partners in Colombia! Our team was excited to return to Bogotá this week to share the preliminary results of the National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment (NDPBA) with the Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres (UNGRD), Colombia’s national disaster management organization and our valued partner in the assessment.
As we look to conclude Colombia’s NDPBA in February, we look forward to continuing to work closely alongside UNGRD and their in-country partners as we finalize the assessment. We also look forward to returning in-country to sign a Memorandum of Understanding, which will serve to guide our continued partnership not only for the NDPBA but also for future projects and capacity building efforts as we work together to build a safer world.
Learn more about PDC’s NDPBA program at www.pdc.org/NDPBA
#SaferWorld #EarlyWarningforAll #Colombia #Bogota #NDPBA
Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres
Embajada de los Estados Unidos Colombia
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
The PDC team was excited to return to the Balkans this week! Year 2 of the Balkans Early Warning Capacity Development program culminated with a Table Top Exercise (TTX) simultaneously conducted from Albania (Tirana) and Kosovo (Pristina) and centered on a winter storm scenario. Participants included national disaster management organization representatives from Albania (NCPA), Kosovo (EMA), and Montenegro (DPR), as well as the Albanian Red Cross, Center for Innovation for Security and Defense, Kosovo Security Council, Kosovo Hydrometeorological Institute, and US Forest Service which sponsored this program.
The engagement included a refresher course on PDC’s global, multi-hazard early warning and decision support platform—DisasterAWARE Pro (www.pdc.org/DisasterAWARE).
#SaferWorld #EarlyWarningforAll #balkans #kosovo #albania #montenegro
Agjencia Kombëtare e Mbrojtjes Civile
Agjencia e Menaxhimit Emergjent
Vlada Crne Gore
Kryqi i Kuq Shqiptar
U.S. Forest Service
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Mahalo (thank you) to the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) for inviting us to support the Assessment & Analysis (A&A) Cell workshop in Geneva this week, October 14-18.
This collaborative effort focused on jointly advancing the A&A Cell’s approach and methodology among UNDAC members and global partners as we work together to enhance the synchronization of products, including the rapid assessment of hazard exposure and needs, to provide critical information to humanitarian responders in the early stages of an emergency.
#SaferWorld #EarlyWarningforAll #Geneva #UNDAC #GDACS World Food Programme International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Swiss Development & Cooperation #UNOSAT MapAction IOM - UN Migration iMMAP Inc.
The PDC team was excited to join an impressive array of talent and experience to deliver the Kickoff Workshop for the Madagascar National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment (NDPBA) in partnership with the Bureau National de Gestion des Risques et des Catastrophes (BNGRC) in Antananarivo. Over 40 participants from 15 ministries, agencies, the UN, World Food Program, IFRC, and non-governmental organizations attended the event. The BNGRC Deputy Director General and the US Embassy Security Cooperation Office Chief joined PDC in providing introductory remarks.
We send a warm aloha and mahalo (thank you) to our Malagasy partners and look forward to continuing our collaboration and partnership as we work together toward a #SaferWorld.
#EarlyWarningforAll #NDPBA #BNGRC #Madagascar
BNGRC
U.S. Embassy Madagascar
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
World Food Programme
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations OCHA
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