THE CAPACITIES FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE AREA OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
THE CAPACITIES FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE AREA OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: Over the last few years, there have been major changes in the comprehensive treatment of natural and other disasters. The global tendency is to develop different methods of disaster risk reduction. One and very useful way is through education and training of different category of population. Also, many responsible institutions in the area of emergency management, as the United Nations and secretariats of the European Union, recommend to countries to develop own capacities for education and training. The point is to direct countries to have own training centres where professionals and other citizens will have opportunity to take different knowledge and skills for reacting in case of natural and other disasters. The main question of paper is the Republic of Serbia has enough capacities for education and training in the area of emergency management. The Sector for Emergency Management of the Ministry of Interior is responsible governmental institution in the Republic of Serbia. The Sector has one organizational unit for the purpose of training and that is National training centre for emergency situations. However, this centre does not work appropriatelydue to many reasons. Main problems are lack of human resources, objects and specialized equipment. Nevertheless, the National training centre for emergency situations made very good results in the last period as evidenced by statistic of educated people which is shown in the paper. Also, the other ministries have to be included in the process of education, especially Ministry of Education. During researching the authors use methods of definition and classification, comparative method and analytical - synthetic method. Results show that the actual capacities for education and training in the Republic of Serbia are in phase of development and are not enough. The authors concluded that in the future period the responsible institutions have to progressively work on new capacities and keeping available actual for education and training in the area of emergency management.

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