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COURSE OVERVIEW
1. The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre is offering a one week course in Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) to limited number of disaster management practitioners, persons training to enter into a disaster management role, police personnel and military participants. This disaster management course reflects KAIPTC’s initiative in developing disaster management courses in support of West African disaster managers and their professional development in the civilian and security sectors. This is in line with building the capacity of disaster managers in support of the ECOWAS Humanitarian Response Mechanism (EHRM). The focus of the course therefore is to provide disaster management professionals with a basic understanding of the Incident Command System; and the ability to plan response actions and strategies for various disaster scenarios.
COURSE AIM
2. The course is designed to provide disaster management professionals with a basic understanding of the role and functions of the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC); and the ability to plan response actions and strategies for various disaster scenarios.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
3. The course seeks to enable disaster management practitioners to:
a. Demonstrate basic knowledge, and be able to explain the role and functions of a sub-national government EOC in disaster response operations.
b. Understand the structure and functions of the EOC in relation to the Incident Command System ICS.
c. Appreciate how the sub-national government EOC and Incident Command can best collaborate during large/complex disaster response operations.
d. Identify and discuss the major considerations in establishing a sub-national government EOC (to include site selection, interior and exterior design, communications needs, staffing, and organizational design) and preparing it to conduct disaster response operations.
e. Identify responsibility areas of EOC staff elements during a large/complex response, as well as the breakdown of a typical EOC day.
f. Comprehend the four stages of the “EOC Incident Life Cycle”