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Organizing practical exercises with state institutions for disaster response: Cooperation with the Centre for crisis management, the Direction for protection and rescue, Ministry of Defence, Ministry o Interior and others. Preparing a study for the needs for establishing rescue services in the Republic of Macedonia. Organizing courses with the Bulgarian Red Cross, Slovenian speleological Federation, and Croatian rescue service for securing instructors for mountain rescue, speleological objects and urban rescue; Training exercises for the Emergency Response Unit; Development of software for alarming ERU members in case of disasters and software for running evidence, etc.; Regional training seminars for communication and coordination of the Red Cross branches, the Regional centres and the Direction for protection and rescue and the Centre for crisis management. Raising public awareness and education of the public
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Assistance for the primary schools for development of evacuation plans; Organizing evacuation exercises in case of disasters in the primary schools, in cooperation with the trained human resources from the schools; Campaigns for protection and self-protection in case of disasters; Preparation of educative material. Volunteer management before, during and after the earthquake.
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Establishment of five teams for disaster response in five Red Cross branches; Training for the disaster response teams of the Red Cross branches; Provision of equipment for the RC branch disaster response teams and the national emergency response unit; Additional training for the national emergency response unit; Organizing practical exercises and courses; Organizing training seminars for first aid in disasters; Training for volunteers in the Red Cross branches for development of plans for the functioning of the disaster preparedness and response programme on local level.
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Trained persons from the Red Cross branches for regular updating of the data base. Made assessment on potential disasters in the Republic of Macedonia. Established cooperation and financing of the activities of Macedonian Red Cross with the Direction for protection and rescue, the Centre for crisis management and the local self-government units. Promoted bilateral cooperation with other national societies. Recruited volunteers (experts) from other nongovernmental organizations. Trained instructors for mountain rescue and water safety with international licenses. Established partnership relations with Direction for protection and rescue, the Centre for crisis management and Macedonian Red Cross. Developed system for alarming ERU members. Improved system for evacuation in case of disasters in the schools. Raised awareness among the population for disaster response; Enlarged, better equipped and trained national emergency response unit. Improved safety of the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia that are active in water and mountain sports.