Guyana is that this week internet hosting MECODEX 2025, a significant four-day regional catastrophe response simulation train designed to strengthen flood preparedness and improve cooperation amongst nations throughout the Americas.
The Mechanism for Catastrophe Cooperation Train formally received underway on Monday, bringing collectively catastrophe response consultants, army officers, and humanitarian businesses for a large-scale drill simulating a flood emergency.
Organized in partnership with the Inter-American Defence Board (IADB) and Guyana’s Civil Defence Fee (CDC), MECODEX 2025 goals to carefully check nationwide and worldwide catastrophe response protocols whereas selling larger civil-military coordination.
“To host the management of the Inter-American Defence Board is a superb honour and augurs effectively for our civil-military coordination,” mentioned CDC Director Common Colonel Nazrul Hussain. “We welcome the overseas delegations and sit up for a profitable train right here in Guyana.”
CDC Deputy Director Common, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Thomas, emphasised the strategic significance of the occasion, calling it greater than only a drill. “It’s a strategic alternative to strengthen inter-agency coordination, consider our response mechanisms, and construct the boldness of these entrusted with safeguarding lives throughout disasters,” he famous.
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MECODEX 2025 is being held below the framework of the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Convention of Defence Ministers of the Americas (CDMA), with the IADB serving because the everlasting secretariat for the initiative.
Brazilian Colonel José Carlos Diaz Torres highlighted the technological spine of the simulation, noting the involvement of SICODE—a catastrophe response simulation platform developed by the Navy Institute of Engineering in Brazil. “Platforms like SICODE enable taking part nations to simulate real-world challenges and fine-tune their response protocols. This train is strictly humanitarian in nature and underscores the worth of regional preparedness,” he mentioned.
Now in its fourth iteration, MECODEX has grown in scale and significance since its inception as a digital tabletop train in 2022. It was hosted in Ecuador in 2023 and Peru in 2024 earlier than making its debut within the Caribbean area this 12 months.
The train kinds a part of a broader regional effort to make sure that worldwide catastrophe help is each well timed and efficient, whereas respecting the sovereignty and particular wants of every taking part nation.
