In Italia ho sentito dire spesso "la nostra protezione civile è la migliore del mondo". Ho anche sentito il dottor Bertolaso dire davanti ad un pubblico italiano che was tired of listening to this kind of self congratulation. Once, this observation could be true, because other countries were not equipped with a high level of development of the sector. But now?
All in all, in Italy the model organization capable of addressing the major events is basically well thought out and has a solid foundation. It has some very valuable skills, such as:
- the mayor, local civil protection chief, is elected by the people and is a direct link with the people assisted;
- legally protecting fundamental civil service newspaper, equal with other State and municipal services;
- volunteering, preziossisma risorsa basilare, costituisce un altro essenziale legame con i beneficiari, ovvero la popolazione;
- l'organizzazione è capillare in modo ininterrotto da Roma all'ultimo comune;
- l'Italia ha denaro e quando arriva un "grande evento" non ha paura di spenderlo.
Ma tutto questo non è più eccezionale come una volta:
- in questo settore la Svezia è riuscita a fare più progresso in 11 mesi e mezzo che l'Italia abbia fatto in 30 anni (basta ricordare la legge 996 del 1970, non ancora pienamente attiva nel 1984);
- la Gran Bretagna ha un sistema di comando e controllo molto più ben articolato di quello italiano;
- inoltre, tramite una buona e modern law on the basis of national civil protection, the United Kingdom involved the private sector in defense against disasters much better than in Italy;
- Britain requires municipalities, counties and regions have not only plans, but in parallel continuity plans of their activities (hence the Emergency Planning Society UK there are 2,500 members), while in Italy the BCM is not developed even in private companies;
- The Netherlands has a system of communication and more rapid reaction advanced than the Italian: with a culture of involvement of the people in preparation for emergencies that boasts 57 years of the daily, the Dutch are very evolved in this;
- the level of technological excellence and management is higher in South Korea;
- the meticulousness of the prevention of hydrogeological disasters in Hong Kong is to dream in Italy;
... and so on.
In Italy, there is a civil defense spending € 70 million per month on major events in 15 years but has not been able to issue national guidelines for training.
planning guidelines have receded by 12 to 16 years and do not reflect the reality of a country that has changed, especially concerning the role of subsidiarity.
According to the UN website, reliefweb.int, 32 universities in Great Britain offrono corsi in disaster management, tipicamente la laurea superiore di Master of Science: in Italia Reliefweb elenca solo una università, e a dispetto del sistema accademico mondiale, il master non è neanche una laurea.
Il 30 dicembre 2009, il governo Berlusconi emette un decreto in cui, nascosto in mezzo, un articolo dispone la privatizzazione del Servizio di Protezione Civile nazionale. La mia analisi di questo si trova su emergency-planning.blogspot.com, rigorosamente in lingua inglese. Il decreto apriva la porta, già spalancata, a raffiche di corruzione. Buttava dalla finestra idee di trasparenza, controllo democratico, etica e welfare. Alla mia costernazione, Il paese, forse narcotizzato dalla televisione del Premier, per several weeks did not notice either of this act. Then all of a sudden things turn the other way. It turns out that privatization is the top of the iceberg, and below, many other cases of mismanagement are linked to civil protection.
As I wrote in that blog, in this area, the scandals are cyclical. In 1999 there was to send by Professor Franco Barberi and charged offenses, results for the most part non-existent or insignificant, to his flock. Now there is to remake the accounts in the same way. In 1999 The Civil Protection Agency, and died in three months in 2010 created the Civil Defense SpA, and dies in less than three months.
Underneath all this mess is politics. But the basic reason for this is to provide civil protection assistance to the population irrispettivemente political considerations. It 'a sector of government has a moral duty to be apolitical, or at least to exist above politics. And so it must be essentially and always clean. But, judging from what the newspapers, faced with large expenses, there are too many temptations.
One thing in which the Italian civil protection agency, or joint stock company or whatever it is, emphatically, is not excellent is prevention. Progress in this area is tiny. Maybe it is the responsibility of other agencies of the Italian government, but they did not progress.
days ago I saw a city, in front of his house, partly dismantled by a landslide, getting angry at the lack or slow pace of assistance from the government. So, I am fully in favor of welfare, but think of the syllogism:
- the city decided to build their home in a place that is crumbling;
- is a landslide;
- the house is damaged;
- ergo, the blame the government.
Maybe, but in most cases no. The temptation to shift the blame is watered by successive governments, right and left who are seduced by the possibility of gaining votes wasting public resources arbitrarily and suppressing the tendency of citizens to take responsibility for their actions. To my surprise, despite the hostile financial climate (and fiscal), the welfare system is still alive, in fact, is thriving. Consequently there is spent on prevention. In fact, at the dawn of the new era of great global Disaster Risk Reduction, Italy has been on the international stage with so feeble and ill-thought initiatives that may not exist mica.
The portrait that I painted is painted black, but we can see it in two ways. The negative and raise your hands, turn your shoulders and do nothing, living in paralysis characteristic of the politically powerless. The one positive is to renew struggle for civil protection as it should. This can be done, because the sound comes from civil protection initiatives small and humble, but are finally able to show the right path, and spread good practice. More difficult, the circumstances are unacceptable, the more you have to fight for a healthier future, more rational, more prudent, more well designed.
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