Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The First meeting of The Civil Protection Network of the Association of Municipalities and Cities of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina was held on June 20 in Sarajevo.
The meeting was attended by representatives of over 50 municipalities and cities of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as representatives of key state and entity stakeholders in DRR (Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Civil Protection Administration of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
UNDP Country Office representatives briefly presented former and current UNDP activities related to climate resilience and disaster risk reduction and introduced the SEE URBAN project. More information on the SEE Urban project details have been provided by project coordinator, Mr. Krunoslav Katic, including very informative statistical analysis and findings of the so far conducted SEE URBAN activities. Mr. Stjepan Behim presented the good practice of Croatian Counties / Cities Disaster Risk Reduction Platform, and shared overall Croatian experience in dealing with disaster risk reduction issues.
The goals and activities as well as Rulebook of Civil Protection Network of the Association of Municipalities and Cities of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina were presented. Meeting was concluded with adoption of the draft of Rulebook of Civil Protection Network of the Association of Municipalities and Cities of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina that will be sent to Presidency of Association of Municipalities and Cities of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina for forma adoption.
The Rulebook establishes Network as an advisory body within the Association of Municipalities and Cities of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina, which adopts views, opinions, suggestions and suggestions in its work, exchanges good practices and experiences, organizes expert meetings and consultations on topics related to the scope of the Network. The aim of the Networks is to apply and adapt the examples of good practice of uniting local self-government units to reduce the risk of elemental disasters and other accidents in local self-government units to reduce the consequences of these events and protect people, the environment and property.
Also, president and vice-president of the Civil Protection Network were nominated and will be as such proposed for formal adoption to Presidency of Association of Municipalities and Cities of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina.
