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South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006. The Program: InWEnt is a German government agency dealing with capacity building worldwide Co-operation between colleagues in South Africa with their counterparts from previous German Host Cities and other involved institutions
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South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006 • The Program: • InWEnt is a German government agency dealing with capacity building worldwide • Co-operation between colleagues in South Africa with their counterparts from previous German Host Cities and other involved institutions • Agreed in Government negotiations of 2006 • Possibilities to cover all aspects of preparations • Co-operation between the German agencies to offer holistic approach in assistance
South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006 • Challenges: • World Cup is national event, covering the whole country • 6 weeks in total with 4 weeks of tournament • 3,2 million tickets representing 600.000 to 800.000 ticket holders plus additional fans – number unpredictable • Ticket holders, FIFA family, teams and fans traveling the entire country during the whole period of tournament • Emergency response capacity in general relatively small • Great diversity in emergency response capacity in different host cities • Large number of different parties involved in preparations – co-operation essential • The world is watching
South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006 • Generic risks of World Cup • Large movement of people on roads and in the air • increased risk of accidents at airports and on roads • mass events at the same time in different venues • huge crowds in cities • increased number of “normal emergencies” (average of 2 ‰ treatments in sport events – 92 per 46.000 or 180 per 90.000) • experience in Germany 2006: number of daily routine emergency responses doubled during tournament without having significant incidents • in case of major incident the number of casualties is expected to be 2 % of participants (920 per 46.000) • attacks
South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006 • German support to Disaster Management RSA • provision of expertise and experiences from previous World Cup • so far: • assessment mission in January 2008 • Disaster Management Workshop Durban 02/08 • assistance to NDMC for National Strategy • co-operation for National Disaster Management Workshop of NDMC in April • participation in meetings of NDMC Working Group and Steering Committee
South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006 • German support cont. • further planning • provision of 300+ expert days until end of 2009 (will be extended in 2010) in co-operation between National Treasury, InWEnt and GTZ, funded by German Government • participation in 5 day action planning conference • participation in risk and vulnerability assessment • support in training and exercise • support in operational planning in Host Cities • further support according to needs
South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006 • Remarks: • lean command and control structure • due to existing capacity, central intervention unit to reinforce units necessary – budget implications • several exercises in each Host City and province necessary as on national level • all activities lead to lasting legacy • CO-OPERATION, CO-OPERATION, CO-OPERATION
South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006 EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED BE PREPARED FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE Thank you Michael Graef Program Coordinator 076-262 9749 michael.graef@inwent.co.za