The IDRL programme is collaborating with the Federation’s Asia-Pacific and West Africa Zone Offices to organize two trainings and consultative workshops on legal issues in disaster management in the last quarter of 2008.
These events will gather representatives from National Societies as well as humanitarian partners to provide training on the IDRL Guidelines and other key international instruments pertaining to disaster relief, to identify best practices in disaster management law, and to discuss strategies for legislative advocacy.
The first such workshop will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 13th-14th. The date and location of the West African workshop are still to be finalized. Similar workshops in other regions are planned for 2009.