INSARAG is a global network of more than 90 countries and organisations under the United Nations umbrella. INSARAG deals with urban search and rescue (USAR) related issues, aiming to establish minimum international standards for USAR teams and methodology for international coordination in earthquake response based on the INSARAG Guidelines endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 57/150 of 2002, on “Strengthening the Effectiveness and Coordination of International Urban Search and Rescue Assistance”
INSARAG STATEMENT
A word from our INSARAG Global Chairman
The 2017 INSARAG Steering Group meeting befittingly took part of the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week (HNPW) in Geneva on the 9th of February 2017. The week saw around 1,300 participants with representatives from Member States, UN agencies, NGOs, the private sector, regional organizations and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement...... (read more)
Ambassador Manuel Bessler
INSARAG Chairman
Regional NEWS
- 2nd annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Organization of American Firefighters (OBA in Spanish)
- AEME exercise_Recce Mission, Azerbaijan, 29 April-3 May 2019
- INSARAG AMERICAS REGIONAL GROUP BULLETINS
- INSARAG Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting, Cairns, 15-16 August 2019
- INSARAG Secretariat and OCHA ROAP in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
- Noticias
- Segunda reunión anual del Consejo Directivo de la Organización de Bomberos Americanos (OBAS)
- The USAR Coordination Cell (UCC) training was successfully held in Beijing
- USAR Coordination Train-the-Trainer course in the Asia-Pacific Region, New Zealand
INSARAG UPCOMING EVENTS
Global NEWS
- ECOSOC HAS fair from 24 to 26 June 2019, in Geneva, Switzerland
- INSARAG Training Working Group Workshop in Oman
- Guidelines Review Group Meeting, Singapore 12-14 June 2019
- ICCROM course on First Aid to Cultural Heritage
- INSARAG meetings with Chinese, Malaysian and Turkish delegations
- INSARAG in Portugal
- News from INSARAG Information Management Working Group
- BSAFE - New Security Training
- ICCROM Releases new online, free to download resource on cultural heritage rescue
- Wisdom of (using) the crowds: Enhancing disasters preparedness through public training in Light Search and Rescue
- New checklist version 2019
- National Accreditation Process News
- OSOCC e-learning course
- Completed work of the LTWG
- Global Strategy 2017-2020
IEC/R NEWS
- IER Medium Romania RO-USAR Reclassification
- IER Heavy reclassification of the USAR Poland Team
- IER Heavy 7e French Battalion of Civil Protection (FRA3)
- IER Heavy 1st French Battalion of Civil Protection (FRA 2)
- IER Heavy - United Arab Emirates USAR Team (UAE-1)
- IER-HEAVY The Netherlands (USAR.NL)
- Planned IEC-R 2019