PIROI
PIROI, or the Indian Ocean Regional Intervention Platform, is part of the French Red Cross and reports to its International Relations and Operations department, who have carried out a regional programme of disaster risk management (DRM) in the south-west Indian Ocean since the year 2000.
LATEST NEWS
Innovative phosphorescent shelters ensure safer communities
The PIROI Center advocates using ground-breaking methods and solutions to improve the quality of assistance to local populations. Its work in this field has included supporting the development and testing of Sollune phosphorescent shelters in a given community....
French Red Cross is helping to fight the second wave of COVID-19 in the Comoros
Since mid-December 2020 the Union of the Comoros has been faced with an increasing number of COVID-19 cases. The French Red Cross, through PIROI and its permanent delegation in the Comoros, has been responding to this second wave across the nation’s three islands. ...
New project to strengthen local disaster preparedness and response capacities
PIROI-member National Societies have received assistance with their disaster preparedness and response work for a number of years already. Until now most of this support has been provided at central level, with capacity-building focusing on Red Cross/Red Crescent head...
2020 marks PIROI’s 20th anniversary
On 2 April 2000, at a ceremony attended by the IFRC and ICRC, PIROI was officially created when the Saint-Denis Reunion Island Agreement was signed, bringing together the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies of the south-west Indian Ocean. Fast forward two...
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