Cooperation between Tunisian ONPC and THW
In Tunis, on 13 December 2011, the Director General of the Tunisian civil protection authority (ONPC), General Fradj Louati, and the President of THW, Mr Albrecht Broemme, signed at the Ministry of the Interior of the Tunisian Republic a cooperation agreement concerning the cooperation of ONPC and THW. The Tunisian Minister of the Interior, Mr Habbib Essib, and the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr Horst-Wolfram Kerll, were present at the ceremony. The agreement is the result and, at the same time, the peak of an intensive cooperation between Tunisian civil protection and THW, which started in 1988 with THW-operations after a flood disaster in Tunisia.
In Tunis, THW-President, Mr Albrecht Broemme (2nd from left) signed with the Director General of the Tunisian civil protection authority (ONPC), General Fradj Louati (r.), the cooperation agreement between THW and ONPC.
Source: ONPC
Since then, the cooperation between ONPC and THW has continuously developed. In the previous years, ONPC and THW focused on the bilateral cooperation in the areas of experience and information exchange, youth exchange programmes, mutual support in the field of training and further training as well as the preparation and execution of exercises.
Additionally, ONPC and THW have cooperated on an international level, for example in EU-projects. They also cooperated in the framework of the United Nations, the INSARAG (International Search and Rescue Advisory Group). Here, ONPC and THW have furthered the development of the regional group Africa/Europe/Middle East. From 1991 until 2004, ONPC and THW jointly chaired this regional group, which now comprises more than 55 member states.
In the first quarter of 2012, a delegation under the direction of the Director General of ONPC will visit THW to profit from the experiences in the field of voluntary work. At the end of February, a 20-strong youth group of THW will travel to Tunisia to give proof of the efficiency of THW-youth on Tunisia’s day of civil protection and to motivate Tunisian youths to commit themselves to voluntary work.
