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Report on DPRK RCS Acitivities The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Annual Report 2015 2015 Annual Report of DPRK RCS Mission The mission of the DPRK Red Cross Society is to prevent and alleviate human sufferings and misfortunes without any discrimination and to improve their health and welfare, promoting the friendship, solidarity and cooperation among peoples, thus contributing to maintenance of world peace. DPRK RCS activities in 2015 to implement the objectives of its Strategic Plan 2016 1. “Save lives, protect livelihoods and strengthen recovery from different disasters and crises by enhancing disaster preparedness and emergency response capacity focusing on disaster prevention and mitigation.” – Strategic aim 1, strategic plan 2016 1) Disaster preparedness and response DPRK RCS has contributed to saving lives, protecting properties and stabilizing the life of the victims of disasters by improving its capacity on disaster preparedness and response in 2015. Considering the cycle and scale of natural disasters are showing an increasing tendency caused by global climate change, the Society updated the contingency plans of the HQs and nine provincial RC branches and strengthened the disaster preparedness mechanism by improving its emergency response tools and measures in cooperation with the technical support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. On the other hand, in close coordination and collaboration with the relevant stakeholders such as the State Committee for Emergency and Disaster Management (SCEDM), Central Statistics Bureau (CSB), State Hydro-metrological Bureau (SHB) and Ministry of Peoples’ Security (MOPS), the efficiency and promptitude were improved in emergency relief work. DPRK RCS also organized Emergency Response Team at national and four provincial branches and RC Rescue Teams in disaster prone areas and saw to it that 800 RC members, volunteers and DM staff acquire emergency disaster response knowledge and skills with the key components on damage and needs assessment, principles for disaster relief, water sanitation, health care and rescue services through various workshops and practical training. Trainings and simulation exercises of Early Warning and Evacuation system were organized in disaster prone areas in terms of hazard/risk identification, updating risk mapping and monitoring, communication of early warning messages, emergency communication channels and evacuation and rescue services. It contributed to reducing life losses and the damage of properties by responding to early warning and assisting evacuation effectively for the affected people in the emergency events like flood and landslide, and further to strengthening 1 The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Annual Report 2015 the capacity of National Disaster Management work. In particular, it updated the previous early warning system which had been confined to flood, to one involving multi-hazard, multi sectoral forecasting. Last year, a total of 1,200,000 people participated in two times of early warning and evacuation simulation exercises in cooperation with the local authorities at branch level. 6,330 copies of various disaster prevention guidelines including “RC Emergency Relief Staffs Manual”, “Construction of Safe and Convenient Rural Settlement”, “Community-Based Disaster Early Warning and Evacuation (CBEWE)” and the “Law of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Disaster Prevention, Relief and Recovery”, 400 flip charts and 500 CBEWE CDs were published and distributed to targeting NDRT, PDRT members, RC volunteers, relevant local DM staff and community people to increase their knowledge, skills and awareness on disasters. This year, the DPRK RCS had swiftly reacted to the floods in Rason city, South and North Hamgyong and South Hwanghae provinces. It immediately mobilized hundreds of volunteers for early warning and gave the residents, the vulnerable in particular, assistance to evacuate to safe shelters on one hand, and on the other, put great effort to give first aid services and make active health and hygiene promotion in the affected areas so as to reduce the number of the dead and wounded greatly. It distributed non-food items including tarpaulins, cooking sets, quilts, hygiene kits, jerry-cans and water purification tablets to 9,364 flood affected people (2,208 families). DPRK RCS in collaboration with local authority had deployed two water treatment units in Paekhak-dong, Sonbong district, Rason City for one month and provided safe and clean water for drinking and life use to the flood-affected people. With the funding support from Norwegian RCS, German RCS and British RCS, the Society has built up the logistics capacity through renovation of three DP warehouses, procurement of one new truck for the transportation of emergency relief Non Food Items (NFIs) and the warehouse and stock management workshop targeting 60 local warehouse staffs and keepers. The DPRK RCS completed the replenishment of DP items to provide targeting maximum of 10,000 families with the pre-positioned emergency NFIs including tarpaulins, cooking sets, jerry-cans, hygiene kits and water purification tablets in future disasters in close coordination with and financial support of the IFRC, other PNSs and 2015 DREF operation. 2) Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Programme Activities DPRK Red Cross Society has greatly contributed to building the safe and resilient communities through the activities to reduce the disaster risk such as flood, landslide, typhoon, tide wave and mountain fire, and improving the livelihoods of vulnerable people in approximately 50 disaster prone communities. 2 The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Annual Report 2015 (1) In close collaboration with the local authorities, DPRK RC branches at all levels have raised community peopleʼ awareness on disaster and encouraged them to positively take part in disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities by conducting the dissemination and promotion of the natural disaster aftereffects, importance of disaster prevention and technical knowledge of DRR. - DPRK RCS branches at all levels have mobilized the RC volunteers to increase awareness of the community people, youths and children on disaster and to encourage them to take part in the removal of disaster risk factors, road and river bed cleaning, tree planting and environment protection voluntarily during the months of land management, tree planting and accident prevention. - RC Youth Dissemination Teams were organized with RC Youth Volunteers in many communities of Unsan, Pukchang, Sinyang, Yangdok Counties, and Tokchon city under South Phyongan Province, Tongrim County in North Phyongan Province and Hamju and Kumya Counties in South Hamgyong Province to conduct dissemination activities through the art performances targeting the community people and youth and children. As a result, all the community people and youth and children have voluntarily taken part in the DRR activities such as establishment of Early Warning and Evacuation System, tree planting and mitigation structure construction. And experience sharings were conducted for other RC county/city branchesʼ staffs from disaster prone areas whom were encouraged to introduce the successes and experiences in the above-mentioned areas to their communities. - The science and technology dissemination rooms in cooperative farms and forestry stations in South and North Phyongan Provinces and South Hamgyong Province were used to disseminate the knowledge and skills on Agro-forestry combined management, sapling cultivation and manuring and cultivation of planted trees, disaster risk prevention and reduction and environment protection and so on. (2) In close collaboration with the local authorities and scientific institutions, DPRK RCS branches at all levels have conducted various disaster risk reduction activities to prevent possible natural disasters and increase the technical skills of the field staffs. - In close cooperation with MOLEP and Forest Academy, DPRK RCS have supported the modernization of the City and County Mother Tree Nurseries to scientize, industrialize and intensify the tree seedling production and contributed to preventing deforestation, the basic cause of disasters such as flood and landslide, and to protecting soil erosion. With the support of technicians from Forestry Academy, DPRK RCS has organized the technical workshops targeting 180 tree nursery staff and forest rangers to have better knowledge of the theoretical 3 The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Annual Report 2015 and practical matters concerning the construction of tree nursery, seed processing, sprouting, nutrition, blight extermination and storage of tree seedlings and increase production of seedlings. 1,000 copies of tree seedling production guideline have been printed and distributed to tree nursery staff and forestry rangers. These guidelines contributed to improving the technical skills of tree nursery staff and forestry rangers and increasing the tree seedling production to help the reforestation of the mountains. The DPRK RCS supplied with irrigation facilities, sun shades, seedling pots and working tools necessary for construction and maintaining of outdoor gardens, cylindrical cutting bed and seedling greenhouse to the city or county mother nurseries in 12 areas nationawide to ensure great enhancement of the tree seedling production capacity. This resulted in producing
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