NEMA, UN Hold Workshop On Managing Disaster Risk In Nigeria

The National Emergency Management Agency with support of the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction has held a workshop on disaster risk reduction.
The event was to develop a national database for disaster loss and damage.
Sani Datti, Head Media and Public relations, in a media statement noted that the workshop was geared towards promoting and aligning with global initiative of data management.
The Director General of NEMA Engr. Mustapha Maihaja represented by the Director Search and Rescue, Air Commodore Akugbe Iyamu stated in his speech that the training would help focus on building national disaster-loss database, which is a giant stride for the country as a whole and disaster risk management in particular.
He said the DesInventer database would broaden the scope of disaster risk management by registering not only large-scale events but also small-scale yet frequent events in this era.
“In this era of increasing disaster occurrences in our nation it has become pertinent to employ modern tools in keeping records of disaster events. This will enhance for better planning, preparedness, mitigation and response necessary in the management of disaster in communities,” he added.
Programme officer Risk Knowledge, UN office for DRR Nairobi regional office for Africa, Katarina Mouakkid Soltesova, earlier said in her remarks that the objectives of the workshop was to develop a national and Institutional capacities for managing disaster risk information system and disaster loss database using “DesInventer”