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to assist the development of national civil
Beneficiaries since 2002
defence organizations, to facilitate the ex-
change of experience and to strengthen
YEAR COUNTRY CONTAINERS
the coordination of efforts in the area of

disaster prevention, preparedness and in- 2002 Burkina Faso 1
tervention. ICDO considers that it has a

special responsibility to prepare civil pop- 2004 3
Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mauritania
ulations to fight against disasters and to
train civil protection personnel, as well as 2005
Senegal, Mongolia, Mali, Jordan, Ga- 8
introducing modern information systems bon (x2), Sudan (x2)

on disaster prevention.
2006 Côte d'Ivoire 1

Switzerland joined ICDO as an observer 2007 2
Burkina Faso, Mongolia
state in January 1997 and has participat-

ed in its work ever since. With its high 2008 Nigeria, Guinea (x2) 3
level of organization, its well-developed

infrastructure for the protection of civil 2009 Palestine, Benin (x2), Congo, Côte 8
populations and the impressive tech- d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Pakistan, Lebanon
nological equipment at its disposal, the

Swiss civil protection system is a model 2010 Guinea, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal
4
to ICDO Member States of how a civil

protection structure should function. 2011 Bosnia & Herzegovia, Senegal
2

ICDO has established good relations with 2012 Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Burundi, Niger, Ga- 6
the Swiss Agency for Development and bon, Guinea

Cooperation (SDC) (La Direction du dével- 2013 Tunisia (x2), Guinea-Bissau, Côte 9
oppement et de la cooperation - DDC) and d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection Congo(x2), Guinea
(FOCP) (Office federal de la protection de la 2014 Cameroon, Togo, Georgia, Côte d'Ivoire, 16
population - OFPP). The main spheres of Senegal, Lebanon, Yemen, Serbia, Be-
cooperation between ICDO and the Swiss nin, Guinea, Mongolia, Kazakhstan,
federal offices are technical assistance and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Uzbekistan, Paki-
training programmes. stan, Comoros

Technical assistance
ICDO provides technical assistance and new dynamics with the appointment of made possible thanks to the financing of
consulting or auditing support to national Dr Vladimir Kuvshinov as Secretary- transportation costs and the donation of
civil defence and civil protection services. General of the organization in 2014, since materials and equipment by Swiss civil
In partnership with the Swiss Government, when ICDO has immensely increased its protection organizations!
ICDO has developed a technical assistance aid. If in 2013 seven countries received
programme that enables the organization nine containers of fire-fighting and res- Technical equipment enables ICDO
to provide specialized equipment and oth- cue equipment, in 2014 sixteen contain- also to render urgent assistance to the
er vital material to civil defence and civil ers of aid were sent to as many countries! countries faced with catastrophes. Sani-
protection structures in ICDO Member 2015 was a record year for technical as- tary materials, motor pumps and other
States and some other countries. For this sistance. ICDO sent twenty containers equipment to combat floods were sent
purpose, ICDO has invited Swiss cantons of fire-fighting and rescue equipment to to Serbia (2014), Bosnia (2014), Georgia
and municipalities with surplus equipment fifteen countries: Belarus, Burkina Faso, (2015) and Ghana (2015).
to give it to ICDO for technical assistance Côte d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Democratic Re-
programmes. This cooperation began in public of Congo, Ghana, Georgia (two Warehouses
2002 and the first country to benefit from containers), Haiti, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan ICDO is setting up regional warehouses
it was Burkina Faso. The table shows what (four), Mali (two), Mauritania, Niger, that stock equipment received so as to be
has been achieved up to December 2015. Tajikistan and Tunisia. To sum up, since able to use it in case of disasters in particu-
2002 a total of eighty-three containers lar areas of the world. The first warehouse
The technical assistance programme of equipment and materials have been is being created in the Kyrgyz Republic
grows each year. ICDO's work gained sent to thirty-seven countries! This was with equipment and materials provided by

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