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Logistics Cluster Preparedness Platform Training Report, July 2018

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Background / Introduction

The Global Logistics Cluster (GLC) Preparedness Project forms a key pillar of the 2016-2018 strategy and aims to create a common, sustainable approach to supply chain preparedness.Localisation and skills transfer form the foundation for the project, which currently focuses on six disaster-prone countries for 2018. Overall, the initiative aims to enhance logistics coordination, collaboration and foster information sharing amongst the humanitarian community.

A core feature of the project is the Preparedness Platform. With the technical capacity to combine imagery, mapping, early warning figures and crowd-sourced updates, the platform aims to overcome a key constraint in disaster planning: filling the information gapas a common source for rapid, validated, real-time data.

As part of the Preparedness Platform project framework, andthe GLC Preparedness Project overall, a technical training was conducted in Madagascar. Hosted by Madagascar’s National Disaster Management Agency, le Bureau National de Gestion des Risques et Catastrophes (BNGRC), and jointly organised by WFP and GLC, the training aimed to operationalise the platform at country level.

This report aims to provide a summary of the key objectives, discussion points and outcomes from the training.