Event Start Date:
October 22, 2019
Event End Date:
October 24, 2019
Event Venue:
Calicut

The U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), Kochi and Kerala State Disaster Management Authority is organising a series of workshops and awareness building events to deliberate on Kerala’s disaster preparedness, management and resilience. The workshops are part of a project entitled “America with Kerala” and was conducted in the Thiruvananthapuram (June 24-26) and Kochi (July 23-25) and focused on sharing the U.S. and the Indian expertise on disaster preparedness, management, and resiliency. Now we are coming to Kozhikode on Oct 22-24.

The workshop will include the following programs:
A two-day workshop on Disaster Management, Preparedness and Resilience that will bring together approximately 40 participants including policy makers, bureaucrats, first responders, security officials, emergency management officials, health officials, and private and non-governmental stake holders.
A one day theme based workshop that will enable to give specific focus on the theme to the target group thereby rendering scope for further works in the specific area. The themes will be curriculum development (Thiruvananthapuram), Policy planning and infrastructure development (Kochi) and Community empowerment (Kozhikode)