UCPM Prevention and Preparedness Programme
The UCPM supports Member and Participating States in disaster prevention and preparedness, providing financing through single-country grants and multi country partnerships.
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Single country grants are direct grants to national civil protection authorities. This offers national civil protection authorities the technical assistance needed for physical investments in disaster prevention and preparedness and for other high impact actions such as development of new policies and legislation. In the first two years of funding, 12 different Member and Participating states have requested these grants. Among the projects financed are the development of a national strategy for disaster risk management in Greece, the design of a new national early warning system in Latvia and the development of a series of disaster prevention and preparedness projects to be funded by EU Structural Funds in Croatia.
All the projects focus on different types of hazards, end users and geographical scope but they all share the objective of supporting cross-border cooperation in disaster risk management.
Multi-country partnerships are grants to consortia of civil protection authorities and their partners, including universities, NGOs, private sector and international organisations. This financing aims to promote cross-border collaborations for disaster risk management both within the UCPM and between UCPM, Enlargement and Neighbourhood countries. Among the 132 projects receiving financing between 2014 and 2020, 67 focused on disaster prevention and 65 on preparedness. 48 of them were ‘follow-up projects’, building on previously funded smaller pilot projects.
Between 2014 and 2020, the average grant provided by DG ECHO to each project consortium was €601 000, with a total funding of €67.4 million.
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