Dis­as­ter re­sponse ex­perts, mil­i­tary of­fi­cials, and hu­man­i­tar­i­an agen­cies from across the Amer­i­c­as will par­tic­i­pate in the four-day Mech­a­nism for Dis­as­ter Co­op­er­a­tion Ex­er­cise (MECODEX 2025) which gets un­der­way in Guyana on Mon­day.

The ma­jor re­gion­al dis­as­ter re­sponse sim­u­la­tion ex­er­cise is aimed at strength­en­ing in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion and im­prov­ing na­tion­al pre­pared­ness for flood-re­lat­ed emer­gen­cies and is be­ing or­gan­ised in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­fence Board (IADB) and the Civ­il De­fence Com­mis­sion (CDC) of Guyana.

The ex­er­cise brings to­geth­er dis­as­ter re­sponse ex­perts, mil­i­tary of­fi­cials, and hu­man­i­tar­i­an agen­cies from across the Amer­i­c­as to test and re­fine co­or­di­nat­ed strate­gies in a sim­u­lat­ed flood sce­nario. It is de­signed to rig­or­ous­ly eval­u­ate the op­er­a­tional readi­ness of lo­cal agen­cies while fos­ter­ing re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty in dis­as­ter risk man­age­ment.