Civil defence international cooperation - ICDO
Activities - International Cooperation
civil defence organisation, fire brigade, training, disaster prevention, assistance, flood, safeguard, volontary service, volunteer, humanity, solidarity, impartiality, evaluation, emergency, storm, natural disaster, earthquake, expertise, coordination, rescue, humanitarian law, civil protection, legislation, mission, organisation, staff, training, equipment, finances, international, world civil defence day, training and information material, documentation, disaster management, search and rescue
Activities
International Cooperation
|
|
In its role as the federating organ of national civil protection structures, the ICDO allows them on the one hand to attain their common objectives and on the other to further and encourage solidarity, the cement of their unity. In this spirit, the ICDO:
- contributes to the design and implementation of means for cooperation between national civil protection structures;
- coordinates mutual assistance operations between national civil protection structures in matters of disasters prevention and, when they occur, intervention (exchange of expertise, coordination of rescue activities, etc.);
- promotes a common culture in civil protection matters, for example through the diffusion of the fundamental principles of civil protection adopted in the course of the 11th World Conference on Civil Protection and of the rules of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) relating to Civil Protection.
International strategies for civil protection and natural disaster mitigation are clearly an important theme, and one that deserves to be further considered, improved and refined.
|
copyright © 1999 - 2008 - ICDO - eMail:
ascl.com
International Civil Defence Organisation
ch. de Surville 10-12
1213 Petit-Lancy
Geneva
SWITZERLAND
|
Tel.: +41 (0)22 879-6969
Fax: +41 (0)22 879-6979
www.icdo.org
|
|
|
