Title: 184 Economic Community of West African States Disaster Preparedness Exercise: Building Regional Capacity to Enhance Health Security
Abstract: The West African Disaster Preparedness Initiative (WADPI) held a disaster preparedness exercise with representatives from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on 19 November 2015. The exercise was hosted by the Republic of Ghana's National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and its partners, in Accra. WADPI aimed to strengthen national capacities among 12 West African Partner Nations (PNs) to better implement a whole-of-government, all-hazards approach to disaster preparedness and response management by building upon lessons learned from the international Ebola virus disease (EVD) crisis.