Upcoming Trainings

Strengthening Disaster Preparedness and Response
Emergency Info Training Workshop, Maputo, Mozambique, 10 - 14 Sept 2007
UN RDT SAHIMS in collaboration with UNICEF, UNDP, OCHA ROSA, DevInfo, INGC Mozambique together with several other national disaster management agencies will be hosting the first ever EmergencyInfo Training Workshop in southern Africa in Maputo, Mozambique from 10 - 14 September 2007. The training will introduce DevInfo's latest technology that uses simple hand held computer-PDAs to quickly capture data during an emergency and convert raw numbers into meaningful and ready-to-use information. The PDA will contain ready to use rapid assessments that can be adapted and used even in a specialised sector. The PDA data can simply be imported into a database and then used to access and search for data by indicators, sources, areas and time periods to assess the needs of the affected population.

This EmergencyInfo training workshop aims at addressing one of the key objectives of the UN Regional Director’s Team (RDT): Building and strengthening national capacity for disaster preparedness and response. The motivation for the training is also based on lessons learnt during the response to the floods and cyclone that recently affected the region, and follows requests from humanitarian partners. The workshop will provide training in EmergencyInfo to delegates from national disaster management institutes and related agencies across southern Africa. The focus will be on ensuring that relevant national baseline data is developed and available as part of disaster preparedness; and improving sector/cluster information management capacity, especially for timely acquisition, processing, analysis and dissemination of assessment data in disaster response.
More information at http://www.sahims.net/training/ or www.devinfo.info/emergencyinfo

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Previous Training

DevInfo Administrator Training for CEMAC Countries
Douala, Cameroon, 2-6 July 2007
Following the successful partnership with CEMAC in organising a regional DevInfo workshop in Libreville Gabon in November 2006 in, Cameroon will host the second
edition. The UN Regional Director Team, through the Southern Africa Human-development Information Management Network (SAHIMS), organizes this event with the support of DevInfo Global team: UNICEF, UNDP and UNDGO. The second edition of CEMAC DevInfo Regional Administrator Training, aims at strengthening national capacity in
using DevInfo technology for MDG planning, monitoring and evaluation in central African countries. The training workshop will include facilitators from SAHIMS, CSF India and UNICEF.
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