In the first two years after the formal launch of the EMT Initiative, global meetings were held in 2015 and 2016 to gather the community of EMT providers, member states and partners as a whole and create the momentum for the development of a global strategy. These meetings proved vital in steering the direction of the initiative, and gaining buy in from the various member states and partners involved.
This global meeting aims to ensure global coherence and knowledge sharing—updating the progress across the regions and globally. It will allow discussion of the use of EMTs in conflict and protracted situations and a meeting on the new “red book” will likely occur in the margins. It will also provide a key opportunity to reinforce the message that EMTs (particularly national teams) will be needed in outbreak response. And finally, the global meeting is also expected to be the ideal platform to launch the new version of the EMT minimum standards and principles, known as the “Blue Book”, along with the EMT Toolkit.
Goals and Objectives
- EMT capacity strengthening at local, national and regional level
- Updates on development of minimum standards in clinical and operational areas as well as identification of gap areas for further development
- Recent developments and good practice sharing in deployment of EMTs from the technical, clinical, legal and operational perspectives
- Coherence and collaboration with other initiatives and networks
- Strategic governance and future direction of the EMT initiative, including global and regional priority setting and work planning