Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency delegation to visit Gambia
A five-member delegation from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria led by its director general will be visiting The Gambia from 18th-20th April, 2012 as guests of the Office of the Vice President and the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), the Daily Observer has gathered. NEMA intends to provide technical assistance to NDMA to boost its operational and tactical efficiency and effectiveness in guiding and coordinating disaster risk reduction activities in the Gambia, in line with the South-South cooperation in the implementation of the Hyogo Framework of Action, the Africa Regional Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction and its Plan of Action 2006 to 2015, as well as the Ecowas policy on Disaster Risk Reduction.