Date Meeting/Activity Proposed Location Activity Focal Point

JANUARY

13 Webex AAR UNDAC mission PHL Typhoon Haiyan tbc PM/BN

13 - 16 Palestine DRP Pre-Mission Palestine AB/TS

20 FCSS/Swiss meeting Bern TS/WC/PM

23 FCSS Planning Retreat Geneva,

Switzerland

TS/JL/GC

FEBRUARY

11 - 12 UNDAC Advisory Board Meeting Geneva,

Switzerland

PM/MP

13 - 14 INSARAG Steering Group Meeting Geneva,

Switzerland

TS/WC/HK/DW/JL

25-27 Earthquake preparedness workshop -

INSARAG/OSOCC/UNDAC awareness

Havana, Cuba CS/MP

MARCH

7 - 17 March:

Geneva Moto Show

3-7 IHP OOSS course Estonia AB

2-3 Preparatory Meeting with UAE on the INSARAG Global

Meeting 2015

UAE TS/WC/HK

3 - 6 IEC/R Team Leaders and Mentors Training Course UAE TS/WC/HK

1 - 9 INSARAG Training Working Group Meeting UAE WC/HK

26-28 INSARAG Guidelines Review Group (GRG) Meeting Geneva,

Switzerland

WC/HK

21 March - 5 April UNDAC DRP Mission to Palestine Palestine AB/TS/DW

27-28 TRIPLEX Evaluation WS Sweden PM

22 - 30 IEC French UIISC 1 and 7 back-to-back IEC France WC/HK

APRIL

18 - 21 April: Easter

1 - 5 China Mission (accompanying ROAP) China BN

7-9 OSOCC guidelines update & training review workshop Geneva,

Switzerland

PM/BN

7 - 11 IER Poland (USAR Poland) - Heavy Poland YO/HK/NM

08 - 10 IHP FP Meeting Germany BN

28 April - 2 May USAR Capacity Building scoping mission in AP Mongolia BN/MD

MAY

4-16 UNDAC Induction Asia-Pacific Indonesia PM/BN

23-25 INSARAG Americas workshop on national USAR capacity

building- national classification system

Chile CS/MP

26 - 30 IEC Romania (RO-USAR) - Medium Romania WC/HK

19-23 OSOCC Asia/Pacific Course New Zealand BN/MD

JUNE

tbc UNDAC/INSARAG Familiarisation Workshop for Bangladesh Bangladesh BN/MD/ROAP

17-19 INSARAG Preparatory Workshop for the AEME Regional

Earthquake Response Exercise

Turkey WC/GC/YO

11 - 14 IER ICE-SAR (concurrent with EU Ex MODEX) Denmark WC/HK/PM

26 - 30 (tbc) IEC Ukraine (Mobile Rescue Centre) - Heavy Ukraine WC/HK

tbc OSOCC Course - (USAR) Russian speaking countries tbc TS/YO/Reg.Off.

24-26 (tbc) INSARAG Preparatory Workshop for the Americas Regional

Earthquake Response Exercise

Costa Rica CS/MP

tbc- week of 23

June

INSARAG GRG-TWG-MWG Technical Meeting Geneva WC/YO/HK

JULY

28 - 30 July:

Ramadan Eid

12-16 UNDAC Americas consolidation course Colombia CS/MP

tbc INSARAG Teleconference with Regional and Global Chairs conference call WC/YO/HK

tbc UNDAC Asia-Pacific Consolidation Course tbc BN/MD

AUGUST

26 - 28 IER China (CISAR) - Heavy and TBC- AP INSARAG Ex

(back to back)

China BN/YO/MD

18-22 IHP Field Management Course Denmark AB

SEPTEMBER

1 - 4 (tbc) INSARAG Americas Regional Earthquake response exercise Costa Rica CS/MP

11 - 14 IER UK (UK-ISAR) - Heavy UK WC/HK

15-19 IHP Mission Security Adviser Course Starum, Norway AB

15-17 INSARAG Regional A-P meeting Seoul, Korea BN/MD

22-24 INSARAG Team Leaders Meeting Qatar YO/HK

17-24 INSARAG WGs meeting (in the margins of TL meeting) Qatar YO/HK

14-26 UNDAC Africa Induction Course (English) South Africa PM/GC

OCTOBER

4-7 October: Eid

1-2 INSARAG Africa-Europe-Middle-East(AEME) Meeting Poland WC(interim)/GC

tbc UNDAC Preparedness Methodology training Italy PM/CS

06-Oct IHP ICT Refresher Training Kuopio, Finland AB

21-23 Oct INSARAG Americas Regional Group meeting & UNDAC

consultation meeting

Peru CS/MP

tbc OSOCC course North Africa & Middle East (english), with EU

PPRD

tbc PM/GC

27 - 30 IER Switzerland (Swiss Rescue) & IEC Morocco - Heavy Switzerland WC/HK

NOVEMBER

16-28 (tbc) UNDAC Africa Induction Course (French) tbc PM/GC

19-21 Nov INSARAG AEME Regional Earthquake Response Exercise Istanbul, Turkey WC/GC

DECEMBER

tbc UNDAC Americas consolidation course Argentina CS/MP

tbc UNDAC Americas support staff course Argentina CS/MP

8-12 UNDAC Europe/Africa/Middle East Consolidation Course Switzerland PM/GC

To Be Scheduled

tbc UNDAC awareness training with AULO and AU Addis Abeba,

Ethiopia

PM/GC

tbc OSOCC Course Middle East TS/PM/GC

tbc Response mechanism workshop Americas/Caribbean tbc CS/MP

Updated 24 March 2014

FCSS Calendar 2014