EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TRAINING RUNS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT STAFF

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Ministry of Human Development and Social Welfare and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) co-organized a subject training on October 2 for the welfare groups. This took place in frames of the objectives of a newly established Emergency Management Department at the ministry. This department was set in accordance with the Ministerial order of October 15 of 2013 with purposes of organizing the planning and realization of emergency management within the sector. The department should train cadres that will prevent disasters, eliminate a damages, take immediate reconstruction measures, and plan and realize emergency management. Present at the training were the related workers, sub-group for protection of children, sub-group for gender-based abuse prevention, and members of Youth counseling committee. The ministry intends to organize same kind of training in the future, as well as to prepare trainers. The Emergency Management group, one of the 12 emergency cluster adjustment groups in Mongolia, is operating with guidelines from the UNFPA and the Ministry, along with 24 member entities and 35 members, pursuing the emergency management plans. The management group aims at demolishing the violations of human rights, at preventing those situations without discrimination and at appropriate timing, in accordance with the international law on human rights.