Malawi Department of Disaster outlines La Nina preparedness efforts
By Alfred Chauwa
[The Department of Disaster Management Affairs] with support from UNDP organized training in the commercial city of Blantyre for members of the Association of Environmental Journalists (AEJ) in Blantyre to capacitate media practitioners on issues of early warning systems and disaster risk reduction in the wake of reports of La Nina.
During the two-day training, journalists were taken through various topical issues such Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction including the progress on the implementation of national disaster risk management policy and preparedness efforts in view of the anticipated La Nina.
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