The U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) in Kochi and the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority will jointly organise a series of workshops and awareness building events in Thiruvananthapuram to deliberate on Kerala’s disaster preparedness, management and resilience. The event will take place from June 24-26.
Dr. K. T. Jaleel, Minister of Higher Education, will inaugurate the workshop on June 24. Chief Secretary Tom Jose, IAS, Lauren Lovelace, Consul for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy, U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, and Sekhar Kuriakose, Member Secretary, Kerala State Disaster Management Authority, will be present.
There will be a curriculum development workshop that will help ideate the development of a curriculum using Kerala’s emergency management landscape with inputs from American pedagogy vis-à-vis communications, critical thinking, and technical skills. Another one is a two-day workshop on disaster management, preparedness and resilience that will bring together approximately 40 participants including policy makers, bureaucrats, first responders, security officials, emergency management officials, health officials, and private and non-governmental stake holders. Dr Himanshu Grover, well-known U.S. scholar and co-director of the Institute for Hazard Mitigation and Planning at Washington University’s College of Built Environments, will talk. The event is part of a larger initiative called ‘America with Kerala’ by the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai and CPPR, which aims to organise a series of workshops and awareness building programmes across the state.
The project will be conducted in the three major cities of Kerala namely Thiruvananthapuram (June 24-26), Kochi (July 23-25), and Kozhikode (August 26-28).
