Dominica to benefit from Community Alert Project

A view of the Portsmouth Harbour
A view of the Portsmouth Harbour

Dominica has been named a beneficiary to a Community Alerts Project, together with Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

In Dominica, Portsmouth has been identified as the Pilot community and residents, beneficiaries and agencies are already involved and are encouraged to continue to support the project and process which began in January of 2014 and ends at the December 2014.

While Portsmouth has been identified as the pilot community, other communities will also be recipient of an alert if activated.

This initiative will support the development of a DOMINICA WARNING SYSTEM (DWS) which is a combination of several technologies with a Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) backbone which disseminate warning and hazard information to the public.

The Community Alert Project (CAP) is designed to enhance community resilience and demonstrate a coherent approach to emergency alerting by (a) improving awareness to natural hazards and the associated preparation and response to these hazards (b) demonstrating the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) as a process to improve community alerting.

All residents of Portsmouth as well as visitors stand to benefit from this project, particularly to understand the mediums for alert and for early response to warning.

The European Commission has committed project funding until December 2014 through its Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Directorate General (DIPECHO).

The CAP Project is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Barbados and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and is coordinated with the work of the National Disaster Offices (ODM) in Dominica, CDEMA, the Red Cross, and the DIPECHO-funded Volcanic Risk Reduction Project implemented by the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC).

The Establishment and testing of the system as well as an education outreach programme will get on the way during the months of September through to December 2014.

 

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12 Comments

  1. September 3, 2014

    STOP MOANING AND WELCOME THE TEACHING

  2. The Facts
    September 2, 2014

    Consider how many people listen to the Radio and view TV. Radio and TV Stations should also have such a system to alert nationals. From time to time a short test should be conducted by Radio/TV. Prior to this nationals should be informed that it is only a test. In this way they could familiarize themselves with the sound.

  3. #SMH
    September 2, 2014

    Boy all we need is a padna on a donkey running up and down the street shouting “Sooo Kooo”!!! The rest of the money we should use to improve our tourism and build better schools..

  4. Belle Boeuf
    September 2, 2014

    With all the sleeping volcanoes around Roseau and environs, I thought this area would be the first and prime concern for projects such as CAP.??

    • icepop
      September 2, 2014

      So you seem not to understand English man! Portsmouth is the pilot community and once completed it will be replicated to other parts of Dominica, including Roseau.

      • Belle Boeuf
        September 3, 2014

        That’s what I mean: start where the real problem is then move on.

  5. dissident
    September 2, 2014

    De program started 8 months ago…
    …I remember.
    Now 4 months to the end we getting official word……. talking of several initiatives already in place wit no report on progress and what has been achieved.
    Is this a labor ka twavay infomercial

    • The Truth
      September 2, 2014

      Well… dats good. By de time we get de warnin’ the event will have passed months before!

    • icepop
      September 2, 2014

      Now alone you hearing of it emmmh – so many times that on radio and how many workshop those people hold already I go to one in Possie with a White lady and a Darroux guy a Dominican guy based in Monsterrat but as usual people spend more time listening and interested in talk show and rooroo so that maybe pass you boy!

      • The Truth
        September 3, 2014

        Then put de warnings on talk shows ! Sacway tonneh!

      • Belle Boeuf
        September 3, 2014

        If they were serious about this project, not only now it would be headline news. It would have been all over the country with much more people participating.

      • Belle Boeuf
        September 3, 2014

        This project would reach everybody, especially where needed most and not for the money for a selected few where there is no immediate danger, but where there is “prospective immediate danger”

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