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PIROI Partners’ Meeting
PIROI recently invited all of its programme members to review the past two years and define the goals for its upcoming programme. PIROI organised a meeting of all its partners on 29 and 30 October 2019 in Reunion Island. The Presidents and Secretaries-General of the...
‘Behaviour to adopt in a flooded environment’ training course: participants take the plunge!
As part of the ‘Inondation, Nout kartié lé paré’ flood awareness project, PIROI organised – ahead of the upcoming cyclone season – training on how to act in a flooded environment. Six one-day sessions were held from 16 to 22 October 2019. These 6 days of training...
Supporting the Rodrigues community of Port-Sud-Est in strengthening its resilience
From 14 to 19 September, Mauritius Red Cross and its Rodrigues branch worked with the local community of Port-Sud-Est to increase its resilience to natural disasters. PIROI supports the Indian Ocean National Societies in implementing Vulnerability...
Regional training course in Madagascar on core cash transfer skills
Distributing money in the form of cash or vouchers is now recognised as an effective tool to help affected populations recover from the aftermath of a natural disaster or in certain emergency situations. Local shops and markets often re-open...
Very positive results for the Dengue nout’ fami Lé Paré* project
As Reunion has been experiencing a dengue epidemic since early 2018, the island’s Prefecture asked PIROI to help raise awareness of the disease amongst the local population, hoping to avoid an acceleration of the outbreak. The Paré pas Paré project team thus decided...
Comoros emergency: Comoros Red Crescent volunteer Younoussa shares his story
Ngazidja is a volcanic island in the Comoros, an archipelago located in the Mozambique Canal. On the night of 24 April, this little-known island of the Indian Ocean was hit by Intense Tropical Cyclone Kenneth: the cyclone’s eye passed only 50 km off the...
Strengthen community resilience by training national Vulnerability Capacity Assessment (VCA) coordinators
This week PIROI’s training centre organised its first regional training course on Vulnerability Capacity Assessment (VCA) methodology. The course was held Monday to Friday in Mauritius, and was attended by 19 participants from eight Red Cross and Red...
Two months after Cyclone Kenneth: focus on disaster response operations
On the night of Wednesday 24 to Thursday 25 April 2019, tropical cyclone Kenneth swept past the Comoros archipelago, mainly affecting the island of Grande Comore and to a lesser extent the neighbouring islands of Anjouan and Mohéli. Given the large number...
Training Paré pas Paré volunteers to facilitate the story telling of ‘Island of a thousand dangers’
The Paré pas Paré project and its mascot Timoun the turtle have been raising awareness in Reunion about reducing vulnerability to natural disaster risks since 2011. PIROI aims to develop the educational resource ‘Island of a thousand dangers’ (known...
Water Treatment in Emergencies training course in Mayotte
During emergency operations PIROI mainly responds by providing water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH), and emergency shelters. WASH covers the issue of access to water during emergencies, whether it be the production and distribution of safe drinking water, or...
Project cycle management training in Reunion Island
As part of the regional Disaster Risk Management programme, the PIROI Center – in partnership with the Bioforce Institute – organised technical training on project cycle management in order to build Programme Managers’ capacities. The five-day course was held 3 to 7...
Launch of the second phase of Reunion’s local flood preparedness programme
Starting in June 2019, PIROI will launch the second phase of the project Inondation, nout kartié lé paré (‘Our district is ready in the event of flooding’) which aims to strengthen the resilience of flood-prone neighbourhoods on the island of Reunion. This year-long...