The CTIF Women in Fire Fighting Commission 2016

14 Feb 2018

Report from the 11th Meeting of the Women in Fire & Rescue Commission

Women in Fire and Rescue Services

The 11th Meeting of the CTIF Women in Fire & Rescue Services was arranged the 25th - 26th of April 2017, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Here is the Official Report from their meeting.

Conclusions

The member states are in different stages with equality issues in fire and rescue services. The Commission discussed that it is important to get more women in fire and rescue services and keep the women also in work. This is important, because fire and rescue Services can provide better quality in service for citizens when the service providers (fire and rescue services) consist of different genders. The Commission also has a need for information about certain issues from the member countries, so the Commission finalized the survey and it will be sent out. The Commission also discussed fire station facilities, how they should be built or renovated, and found a couple of good examples. This matter needs to be further investigated.

The Commission’s website needs to be improved. The Commission also saw a great potential benefit to working together with iWomen. A mutual meeting is being planned.

Decisions

The Commission decided on an activity plan for the year 2017. The Commission is going to send out the survey, which was finalized in the meeting, to the member countries at the end of May 2017. The member countries are requested to answer the survey by the end of August 2017. The answers will be analyzed by the Commission and the results will be presented in the next meeting in Berlin.

The Commission also decided to collect best practices and share information on different topics via our website. The Commission’s website has to be improved for that, and a new “Documents” archive has to be established for the website. The first step is to collect examples of good practice for recruiting women in fire and rescue services.

The Commission also decided to support member countries to establish their own national networks for women in fire and rescue services.

Next steps

The Commission will send out the survey for member states in May 2017. The member states have until the end of August to answer. The answers will create a basis for our future work.

The Commission members are requested to deliver as soon as possible a photo and a short introduction of themselves to Vice Chair Mona Hjortzberg. These introductions are going to be on the CTIF Women in Fire and Rescue Services website.

The member states are requested to send to the Chair and Vice Chair good examples of PR tools and campaigns on recruiting women in fire and rescue services. Also, other examples of good practice are requested to be sent out.

Agenda

Day 1

The meeting starts (09:00)
Welcome speech
Introduction of participants
Election of chair, secretary and adjudicators for the minutes of the meeting
Approve the minutes of the meeting in Kongsberg 2016
CTIF News
Presentation from each country (5-7 minutes per country)

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Visit the Training Center
Commission Women in Fire and Rescue Services - What we have done in 2016
Examples of good practice from each country

The survey for member states

The meeting ends (16:55)

At 17:00 conclusion of the meeting

Day 2

09:00 Visit to the Fire Brigade of Ljubljana.
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Working in small groups- Family and caring, Statutes, Technical/Physical issues, Career/support
Website-Media
Future -- what are we going to work with?
Next meeting 2017/2018
The meeting ends (17:00)