BaltPrevResilience
BaltPrevResilience
Baltic Everyday Accidents,
Disaster Prevention and Resilience
www.msb.se/baltprevresilience
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
www.msb.se/baltprevresilience
BaltPrevResilience
The Baltic Everyday Accidents,
Disaster Prevention and Resilience
Project
Towards a joint macro regional approach in the
Baltic Sea Region (BSR):
• Prevention and Preparedness
• Minimizing consequences of Everyday Accidents
Contributing to:
• Priority area Secure of the EU BSRS Action Plan
• It’s Flagship Everyday Accidents
Duration: 1 February 2014 - 31 January 2016
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
www.msb.se/baltprevresilience
Objectives and Expected Results
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• Prevent and reduce
consequences of accidents and
crises
• Improved collection and analysis
of impact and response data from
everyday accidents
• Create a common understanding
• Common understanding of
accident statistics and evaluation
of experiences
• Establish a platform for sharing
- statistics
- experiences
- best practices
- methodology for lessons
learned
• Decision support at local,
national and EU level with
common knowledge, accident
profiles and identified best
practices
• Better community awareness and
resilience in BSR
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
www.msb.se/baltprevresilience
Tasks
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1. Knowledge Base and Data
Kick-off Meeting/Seminar in Finland
2. Assessment: Evidence meets Societal Needs
Mid-term meeting/Seminar in Latvia
3. Awareness Raising, Bridging and Building
Community Resilience
Concluding Meeting/Seminar in Poland
4. Coordination
Management, evaluation and reporting
5. Dissemination
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Activities
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• Three thematic
seminars:
1. Collection of evidence based
knowledge
2. Assessment of information and
data and learning
3. Awareness raising and building
resilience
• Supplementary studies:
– Procedures for gathering,
learning, dissemination and use
of evidence based accident data
– Implementation of evidence
based accident data in BSR
– Available data sources covering
also escalating accidents
• Seminars
(UNEP APELL type)
Facilitating dialogue between relevant
BSR civil protection actors and
stakeholders .
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European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
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Task 1:
Knowledge Base and Data
A learning system, built on basic data:
– Minimum Data Set, i.e. general statistics, and in-depth data
– Enhanced Data Set, i.e. data and experiences from evaluation of more significant incidents
Objectives:
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Common understanding of statistics and experiences from everyday and escalating accidents
Sharing and learning from evidence based knowledge and best practices
Enhance accident prevention, create resilience and address climate change
Actions:
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Scientific overview of implementation of evidence based accident data
Presentation of available data sources covering escalating accidents
Procedures for gathering, dissemination and use of evidence based accident data in BSR
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
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Task 2:
Assessment Evidence Meets
Societal Needs
Objectives
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A platform for collaboration to reach trans-operability results, i.e. across sectors and
administrative and jurisdictional boundaries
Develop shared understanding and prevention policies in support of long-term
methodology improvement efforts.
Actions:
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Establish a network/forum for joint analysis of statistic data within the field of fire prevention
through expansion of the existing Nordstat cooperation
Establish best practices in capturing evidence based data and dissemination of resulting
accident profiles
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
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Task 3:
Awareness Raising, Bridging and Building
Community Resilience
Objectives:
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Foster and promote raised awareness and knowledge
Build bridges between sectors and levels
Establish communication between relevant civil protection actors
Enhance protection from accidents and crises and create better BSR resilience
Actions:
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Concluding Meeting/Seminar and for this to prepare:
- A document on partnership cooperation in floods
- A simulation model of escalating flooding in the city
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
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Project Meetings/Seminars
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Work in tasks
Task 1: February 2014-September 2014
Task 2: August 2014-August 2015
Task 3: December 2014-November 2015
Six Steering Group Meetings
3 back-to-back with the Project
Meetings and:
- Denmark, June 2014
- Estonia, June 2015
- Sweden, January 2016.
Supplementary:
Project Meetings/Seminars:
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Two tentative small Focus Group
Meetings for each Task (1, 2 and
3, respectively).
Kick-Off (Finland): February 2014
Seminar case study: new protection strategy
Mid-term (Latvia): February 2015
Seminar case study: local level safety and risk management
Concluding (Poland): October 2015
Seminar case study: flooding scenario
Cross-border coordination, provide/receive assistance - EU guidelines
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
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Project Management
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Objectives:
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Coordinate and monitor the project’s progress through a Steering Group
Conduct a dialogue with a wider group of BSR civil protection actors on the basis of studies
and three APELL type seminars
Disseminate continuously throughout the project duration in various ways.
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
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Project Partners and
Steering Group
Coordinator:
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, Sweden (MSB)
Beneficiaries:
National Institute for Health and Welfare, Injury Prevention Unit, Finland (THL)
Estonian Rescue Board, Estonia (ERB)
Frederikssund-Halsnæs Fire & Rescue Service, Denmark (FHFRS)
Main School of Fire Service Warsaw, Poland (SGSP)
Jelgava City Municipality, Latvia (JCM)
Karlstad University, Sweden (KaU)
Responsible for implementation of the Action:
Rainar All, [email protected]
With the support of the Civil Protection Financial Instrument
European Commission – Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection - ECHO
www.msb.se/baltprevresilience