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TRAINING,

TRAINING,

AND MORE

TRAINING

Interview with

Vladimir Kuvshinov

Secretary-General of the International Civil Defence Organisation (ICDO)

Q: First of all, we would like to courses online. In our organization, trying to ameliorate the course. But
congratulate you on your election. similar to the United Nations, we we can already see that the course
What is your vision of the organi- have six official languages, and we is a success. In three months after
zation? offer different training courses in all e-learning has been introduced in
of them. In general, these courses are Tunis nearly 200 people have used
Since my election, we have intro- carried out in our Member States' it to study. It must be stressed that
duced a lot of changes both to our training centres. However, with the these distance-leaning courses must
internal and international work. development of e-learning and dis- be combined with practical ones,
Concerning our internal work, we tance-learning courses, we plan to organized by the civil defence
revised the existing rules and regula- make all of these courses available on organizations of the Member States.
tions. Some were amended, new ones a special platform -- the Internatio-
were added. This whole exercise has nal Civil Defence Academy. Civil pro- We are working in close collabo-
affected our work in a positive way. I tection specialists can go there, regis- ration with the Jordanian Civil
think that in rather a short time we ter and follow several professional Defence Organisation so that these
have managed to gain greater effi- training courses in the civil defence twelve courses are available online in
ciency and dynamics by streamlining field -- disaster management, pro- Arabic. We expect to finish this work
the organization. tection of civilians, etc. by the end of 2015.

As regards our international coope- The first course was presented to our We have also started to create the first
ration, we have also achieved a lot. Member States during the Executive International Civil Defence Library.
For instance, we have concentrated a Council held in Tunis in April 2015. This is a project that we are doing in
great deal of our efforts on the design The representatives of the Member collaboration with the civil defence
and development of new informa- States could have a thorough discus- specialists in Moscow, in Jordan, and
tion technology tools to protect civil sion of the contents of the course, of also with some other partners. There
populations from disasters. I think its structure. All our Member States exists a lot of useful information in
this is a very important issue for our have agreed that the theoretical basis the field of civil defence and the pro-
development. Today, most of inter- of the training course is excellent. blem is how to make all this infor-
national organizations have devel- The second positive aspect of this mation available on one platform,
oped their own information techno- system underlined by everybody was the Academy's platform, and then to
logy systems/tools and we have also that the student who follows the on- provide access to the libraries of our
embraced this path. line course will be well prepared for Member States.
subsequent practical courses. Now
We have currently set up a pilot pro- we are taking into consideration the
ject with twelve distance-learning remarks that have been made and

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