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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Captain Stephen M. Russell, Director of The Bahamas’ National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, on Wednesday, November 26. Captain Russell was in Washington participating in a two-day event on Disaster Risk Management at the Organization of American States (OAS). Pictured from left to right: Miss Krissy Hanna, Second Secretary, Embassy of The Bahamas; Captain Russell; Ambassador Newry; Mr. Chet Neymour, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of The Bahamas; and Mr. Mikhail Bullard, Third Secretary, Embassy of The Bahamas.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Captain Stephen M. Russell, Director of The Bahamas’ National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), is among the participants in a two-day event on Disaster Risk Management being held at the Organization of American States (OAS) headquarters here in Washington, D.C., November 25-26, 2014.
Captain Russell, who arrived in Washington on Monday and is scheduled to return to Nassau on Thursday morning, took time out from his busy schedule on Wednesday to pay a courtesy call on His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, at The Bahamas Embassy, 2220 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Also participating in his meeting with the Ambassador were Mr. Chet Neymour, Deputy Chief of Mission, Bahamas Embassy; Miss Krissy Hanna, Second Secretary, Bahamas Embassy; and Mr. Mikhail Bullard, Third Secretary, Bahamas Embassy.
According to the two-day event’s program, the Inter-American Network for Disaster Mitigation (INDM) “has sponsored two Hemispheric Encounters” since its creation in 2007.
“True to the mission of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI/DSD) and consistent with its approach to Disaster Risk Management, these Hemispheric Encounters seek to foster policies and actions on vulnerable reduction, disaster prevention and mitigation, and disaster preparedness, while also making the case for mainstreaming disaster risk management into sustainable development processes, strategies, policies and institutions,” the program notes.
It states that the first Encounter, held in December 2007, focused on cost-benefit Analysis, under the theme, “Making a case to invest in Vulnerability Reduction in the Americas,” and the second event in Santa Marta, Colombia, focused on national mechanisms and networks for risk reduction, under the theme, “From Theory to Practice.”
“This third Hemispheric Encounter, which is being organized and presented with the financial support of the US Department of State through its Permanent Mission to the OAS, will explore practical experiences in Disaster Management in key sectors, based on case studies and exchanges of good practices in three selected subregions in Americas: (1) the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican
Republic; (2) the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); and (3) the Andean States members of the Andean Committee for Disaster Prevention and Relief (CAPRADE),” according to the program.
Sessions during the two days were held in the Hall of the Americas.
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