Early Warning System and Emergency Planning: Liguria takes stock of procedures

Within the framework of RES-MAR Project - Action E: “Model for Prevention and Management of Territorial Dynamics facing Hydrogeological Risk ”, CIMA Research Foundation in partnership with Sociolab - a multidisciplinary group of experts on participatory approaches - and the communication agency Punta a Capo Coo’ee drew, under the supervision of Liguria Region, a participatory process within the Liguria local administrators. Such process aimed at highlighting the difficulties faced by municipalities in the implementation of Early Warning Systems of Civil Protection as well as the drafting and management of Emergency Municipal Plans.

Goal: to identify, through discussion and comparison, key issues and recommendations for the improvement of regional policies concerning Civil Protection.

During the month of October were held four Focus Groups (one per province: Imperia, Savona, Genoa and La Spezia) each divided by groups of municipalities with territorially homogeneous characteristics. Focus groups were an opportunity for discussion and analysis of the recent floods events as well as the right and wrong procedures and lessons learned.The second step of this participatory process was an Experimental Lab held on November 13 at the headquarters of Liguria Region (Regional Administration), aimed at the municipal administrators which had already participated in the Focus Group sessions held on October. The event was characterized by moments of plenary gathering and moments of facilitated discussion in working groups of a smaller size. Participants have chosen to participate in one of the three thematic groups:

Knowledge - training content and tools;

Share - proposals for improving cooperation between actors;

Act - proposals to improve the design and implementation of the Municipal Emergency Plans;

Between the morning working session and the afternoon working session, participants had the opportunity to ask some technical questions to a panel of experts carefully selected in order to have the right tools to develop better operational proposals. The meeting was opened in plenary gathering by the Liguria Region Environmental Councilor Renata Briano, which has again participated at the end of the workshop to hear the return of the working groups and close the session.

Reports of the five Focus Groups are available on this webpage offering an opportunity of meeting "virtually" with neighbouring municipalities sharing similar issues and to exchange experiences and solutions aimed at identifying synergies and joint actions towards a more effective alert and emergency prevention and management. 

Focus Group Imperia	Focus Group Savona	Focus Group Genova	Focus Group Spezia
Experimental Lab Genova