Is the risk a chance or a choice? A survey for assessing public knowledge on disasters and civil emergencies The General Directorate of Civil Emergencies, with the technical support of REC Albania, in the framework of the Program for Improvement of the Early Warning and Prevention National System for Albania (PRO NEWS), is [...]
PRO NEWS Programme with its first newsletter The PRO NEWS Programme started its journey in January 2017, implemented by the Consortium Partners and all the Albanian stakeholders coordinated by the Ministry of Interior Affairs and the General Directorate for Civil Emergencies, who are working in synergy to set up a plan of activities [...]
Third Steering Committee of PRO NEWS Programme 15 November 2017, Tirana, Albania The Programme for Improving National Early Warning System and flood prevention in Albania (PRO NEWS) will hold its third Steering Committee meeting. The aim of this meeting is to review the PRO NEWS programme progress and main achievements during [...]
Levelling UP on Emergency Planning A two-day national workshop on assessing the existing emergency plans at prefecture level The Programme for Improving National Early Warning System and flood prevention in Albania (PRO NEWS) hosted in Tirana, on October 5-6, 2017, the national workshop “Levelling UP on Emergency Planning”. Representatives of the 12 Albanian prefectures, [...]
13 October - International Day for Disaster Reduction Home Safe Home: Reducing Exposure, Reducing Displacement The International Day for Disaster Reduction was started in 1989, after a call by the United Nations General Assembly for a day to promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction. Held every 13 October, the day [...]
PRO NEWS National Workshop: Levelling UP on Emergency Planning October 5th-6th, 2017, Tirana, Albania The EU-funded Programme for Improving National Early Warning System and Flood Prevention in Albania (PRO NEWS) will host the national workshop Levelling UP on Emergency Planning in Tirana on October 5th-6th, 2017. Representatives of the Albanian prefectures, the General Directorate [...]
Obligatory insurance, a new 'tax' for homes against earthquakes and floods The Financial Supervisory Authority has finalized the draft obligatory housing insurance against earthquakes and floods. Chairman of the Financial Supervisory Authority, Ervin Koci, confirmed at yesterday's press conference that the law, already finalized, is for discussion with the World Bank and market [...]
Training course on the use of myDewetra The aim of this formation course is to provide an intensive training on the use of myDewetra, and particularly of Dewetra 2.0, to the personnel of GDCE. Dewetra 2.0 platform is a real-time integrated system for hydro-meteorological and marine environmental monitoring and forecasting, created [...]
Vacancy Announcement Overview The Programme for Improving National Early Warning System and flood prevention in Albania (PRO NEWS) is an EU funded project started on January 2017 and running until November 2018. PRO NEWS aims to further increase the capacity of the Albanian General Directorate for Civil Emergencies to prevent and [...]
Second Steering Committee of PRO NEWS Programme The Programme enters the implementation phase of its activities The Programme for Improving National Early Warning System and flood prevention in Albania (PRO NEWS) hold its second Steering Committee meeting, on July 14, 2017. This second meeting marks the beginning of the implementation phase of the [...]
