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Madrid City Council, General Directorate of Emergencies and Civil Protection
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The General Directorate of Emergencies and Civil Protection of Madrid City Council is in charge of exercising the attributions conferred to the municipality on civil protection. It has to manage and organize fire department, emergency and rescues service and the civil protection volunteers corps.
Integrate risk reduction into planning and strategies of different areas of the City Council
Madrid City Council has developed an innovative model supported by three pillars: integration of safety and emergency services, strengthening prevention and improvement of professional and technical excellence of the emergency services
-ISDR ( Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction)
-International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2012
-Mass gathering
-Critical facilities disruption
-Hot wave
-Cold wave
-Terrorism attacks
www.preparatemadrid.es
The General Directorate of Emergencies and Civil protection is involved in a project to create a local platform for risk reduction as an interdepartamental advisory body to facilitate advise, coordination and control of risk.
-Record and analyse of statistical information on contingencies.
-Integrated Centre of Security and Emergencies of Madrid: brings together in one single place the control points for municipal Policy, Fire Brigade, Urgency and Rescue Service and Mobility Service, increasing the efficiency of actions and guaranteeing better coordination.
-Public campaigns of dissemination and information targeted to citizens
-Citizens training based on two programs: one aimed at alerting in case of an emergency and the other at providing first aid to people affected
Improve psychosocial preparedness of the community
-Disaster preparedness exercises
-Citizens training
-Plans to prepare for and ensure rapid response
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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