REACT Bulletin - November 2014
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UNICEF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE WORKSHOP WITH PARTNERS
On 17 October 2014, the UNICEF Country Office in Tajikistan, with support from the UNICEF Regional Office for Central, Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, organized a one-day workshop on Emergency Preparedness and Response for national and international partners at the Lotus Hotel in Dushanbe.
The training was to sensitize partners on UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children (CCC), while providing refresher sessions on the Humanitarian Reform and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Transformative Agenda, SPHERE Standards, Humanitarian Performance Monitoring and humanitarian assessment tools such as the Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment and Post-Disaster Needs Assessment.
The participants of the workshop came from a broad range of governmental agencies, including the Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the State Statistical Agency and Tajik National University. Various UN agencies, international development organizations and civil society organizations also participated in the workshop.
Children are often disproportionally affected by emergencies. The workshop contributed to ensuring that children’s suffering is minimized in emergency situations in Tajikistan. For more information, please contact pmuhamedkhojaeva@unicef.org or visit http://www.unicef.org/tajikistan/