GI WACAF attends DMISA Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) Webinar 2021 - 17-18 March 2021

DMISA DRR Webinar 2021 replaced the annual DMISA Conference that was planned for 2020, and which had to be postponed due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focused on past and future manifestations of disaster risk in Southern Africa and internationally, and on building consensus towards active disaster risk reduction, resilience and risk governance in both urban and rural settings.

Throughout this 2-day webinar, DMISA wanted to encourage innovate and forward-looking discourse that activates and encourages on a practical level.By enabling participation by a wider audience through the DRR Webinar 2021, DMISA provided opportunity for a diverse range of stakeholders in disaster management from across Africa and the world to gather and share skills, knowledge and experience in order to promote disaster risk reduction in Southern Africa and beyond.

During this webinar, the GI WACAF team presented the Project as well as activities conducted in South Africa on oil spill preparedness and response, notably those relating to the implementation of IMS (Incident Management System):

• National training on IMS, June 2015

• National workshop and training on IMS 300, March 2018

• IMS 300 Training and 2nd Joint industry – government exercise, December 2018

• IMS 300 Training and 3rd Joint industry – government exercise, November 2019

All recordings and resources of DRR Webinar 2021 are available on the DMISA website.