Tsunami Evacuation Maps, Plans, and Procedures (TEMPP) Training in the Indian Ocean

An IOC-UNESCO Training-of-Trainers course on Tsunami Evacuation Maps, Plans, and Procedures (TEMPP) was organised by the IOTIC, BMKG and the ICG/IOTWMS Secretariat in Citeko, Indonesia on 13-23 November 2017. Twenty-two participants from six Indian Ocean countries, mainly India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Oman, and Seychelles, participated in the training. The trainers for this course included experts from IOC-UNESCO ITIC and IOTIC, ICG/IOTWMS Secretariat, NOAA-USA, Indonesian agencies BMKG, ITB, BNPB, and BPPT and INCOIS-India. IOC-UNESCO is grateful to the BMKG, Government of Indonesia for their support in hosting this important training course.

This training enhanced capacities of participating Member States to produce reliable and practical, science-based, community-driven tsunami evacuation maps, and is expected to serve as an important step towards piloting the Indian Ocean Tsunami Ready Programme in the Indian Ocean. The training was successful in creating a pool of trainers who would be able to guide coastal communities in their respective countries to establish tsunami evacuation maps, plans and procedures.  These products will be utilised to pilot the Indian Ocean Tsunami Ready Programme during the IOWave18 tsunami drill on 4-5 September 2018. 

A second TEMPP training course for Indian Ocean Member States will be held during the first half of 2018 and will be aimed at countries who did not participate in the 2017 TEMPP training course.