Dundar Sahin is participated in this Team Leader’s level meeting on behalf of AKUT Turkish Search and Rescue Association. The agenda and the purpose of the meeting as follows;

Purpose:
At the end of this meeting, it is expected to have an outcome document with the recommendations unanimously agreed by all the participating countries. This document will be taken to the INSARAG Regional Group Meetings as well as the INSARAG Global Meeting of 2010 in Kobe, Japan. The main objectives of the meeting are:

• To share the professional experience of urban search and rescue teams that participated in search and rescue operations during the Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010;

• To discuss how to further develop the cooperation with different partners and organisations responded to the earthquake;

• To draw lessons learned from the international urban search and rescue efforts in Haiti;

• To initiate greater awareness on the importance of urban search and rescue capacity building in developing countries;

• To identify those areas to be added to the INSARAG methodology with a view to improving the operations in the future;

Target audience:
Primary participants in this meeting are expected to be the INSARAG National Focal Points at the National Governments who are responsible for urban search and rescue teams and the Team Leaders of the urban search and rescue teams that responded to the earthquake in Haiti. However, we would like to suggest that the delegations from each country to be the INSARAG National Focal Point and only one Team Leader for each urban search and rescue team responded.