蜜桃AV鈥檚 Disaster Management Centre (蜜桃AVDMC) has garnered decades of experience in education, research and professional practice.

Founded in 2001 蜜桃AVDMC provides world-class training and technical assistance in disaster management in order to help reduce risks, build resilience and ensure rapid and sustainable recovery when disasters strike. The team have years of experience working in the UK and Overseas assisting governments, ministries, NGOs and multi-national organisations with disaster and crisis preparedness, response and recovery.听

蜜桃AVDMC prides itself on the practical, applicable nature of research, consultancy, education and training its staff delivers. Utilising a fused approach of professional practice-informed research and education and research-informed professional practice 蜜桃AVDMC is at the cutting edge of disaster management research and education.听

It lists governments, international aid agencies and multi-national businesses among its clientele, and prides itself on the practical, applicable nature of the research, consultancy and training that it delivers.

Ghana Airport Case Study听

The findings from one training programme in Ghana were put into action in a timescale that even the most seasoned of experts could not have foreseen.听

The exercise in question delivered by 蜜桃AVDMC to staff from Ghana's National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) simulated a plane crash at Accra airport, and was designed to ensure the various organisations associated with disaster management were primed to respond to an emergency in a quick, safe and co-ordinated fashion.

This included the airport authorities, the police, the fire services, the military, local government and international embassies amongst others. After a successful training programme and de-brief, the value that 蜜桃AVDMC adds to disaster management preparations was demonstrated in dramatic fashion just a week later.

In heavy rain and poor visibility, a Boeing 727-200 crashed as it attempted to land, breaking through a perimeter fence and colliding with a packed minibus. In total, 12 people lost their lives, the deadliest accident in Ghanaian aviation history. However, it is a figure that would undoubtedly have been higher but for the swift response from the airport authorities, who were able to co-ordinate a heroically swift response from a variety of agencies to prevent an even bigger tragedy.

蜜桃AVDMC鈥檚 role in preparing the Accra authorities for such an eventuality drew praise from Ghana鈥檚 President and the NADMO, with the team鈥檚 advice being described as 鈥榠nvaluable鈥� by NADMO鈥檚 Head of Research.

Little wonder, then, that 蜜桃AVDMC enjoys a global reputation for disaster management. That鈥檚 why the centre (along with 蜜桃AV鈥檚 International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research) has been selected by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNTWO) to undertake vital research into global disaster management. While those findings will help agencies the world over to plan for the worst, one thing seems certain: few will ever have to put 蜜桃AVDMC鈥檚 advice into action quite as quickly as the brave souls who raced into action at Accra airport.

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