The Emergency Planning College, part of the UK Government has conducted a workshop designed to strategize on effective collaboration between separate institutions and agencies when responding to emergencies, entitled Building Multi-Agency Collaboration in the Maldives.
The workshop is being held in partnership with the President's Office of Maldives, UK Counter Terrorism Policing and the JCLEC, and involves participants from a wide-range of institutions, representing various government ministries, including Maldives Police Service (MPS), Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF), Local Government Authority (LGA), the health sector and civil society organisations.
It is hoped the sessions held throughout the workshop from July 21-25 will shine a light on the best path forward to build better working relationships between different institutions and agencies and help them formulate more effective procedures when responding to any threat confronted by Maldives, thereby strengthening the country's emergency preparedness.