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Anguilla Red Cross Leads OSBs at CDEMA Conference
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admin on 31/10/2009 02:45:00
 
(The Valley, Anguilla ) - The Overseas Branches (OSBs) of the British Red Cross,
including Anguilla, has been invited, through the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Federation, to attend the next conference of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency
Management Agency (CDEMA), the regional disaster management body formerly known
as CDERA. The fourth Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management
(CDM), under the theme “Strengthening CDM through Youth and Community
Empowerment,” will be held in Montego Bay, Jamaica from December 7 to 11.
According to British Red Cross Director for the OSBs, Clive Evans, Anguilla was
chosen following consideration of a number of applicants. “We had a number of
people interested in representing the Overseas Branches at this conference and I
am pleased to say the lead representative is…Anguilla,” he said.
Mr. Evans noted that the representative would take steps to represent the
branches fairly and openly, including writing a comprehensive report on the
conference to send to each OSB by the end of January 2010.
Other benefits of the OSB attendance could include information packages for each
of the OSBs based on their specific area of interest, identifying and obtaining
OSB needs and information requirements and ensuring that related questions are
addressed.
The Disaster Management Network Representative as well as Evans from the British
Red Cross will join Anguilla’s OSB delegation leader.
Objectives for attendance at this conference are to build up the presence of the
Overseas Branches (and territories) within CDEMA and to promote the current
proposal of work around DRR and Disaster Preparedness with key stakeholders
(CDEMA/DfID). Other objectives are to evaluate how best to move forward with any
future participation of the Overseas Branches and to feedback the evaluation,
lessons learnt and shared networking opportunities with all the other branches.
The theme of the CDEMA conference this year is "Strengthening CDM through Youth
and Community Empowerment".