Emergency Response and Crisis Management

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To help candidates learn how to prepare crisis management plans, how to respond to a disaster to restore normalcy at the earliest and how to document the whole process for future guidance.

Topics

  1. Crisis Management – rescue, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction; crisis management plan; case studies.
  2. Emergency Response – Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) for disaster response; information management system; warning dissemination; evacuation; search and rescue operations; relief operations; Emergency Operation Center (EOC); resource management & networking – India Disaster Resource Network; role of disaster response forces and Community Based Organisations (CBO) in emergency response mechanism.
  3. Relief Operations – arranging for temporary shelters, food, safe drinking water, sanitation and medical aids; role of NGOs and healthcare workers in relief operations; maintaining law and order.
  4. Recovery – decisions and actions related to rehabilitation and reconstruction taken after a disaster with a view to restoring or improving the pre-disaster living conditions of the affected community, while encouraging and facilitating necessary adjustments to reduce disaster risk.
    • Rehabilitation – damage assessment; need analysis of disaster affected people; resource mobilization for rehabilitation; restoration of basic amenities – housing, drinking water, sanitation, medical facilities, power supply etc.; creating livelihood options.
    • Reconstruction – repair and reconstruction of roads, bridges, crossways, buildings, structures and establishments damaged or destroyed in the disaster; restoration of operations of the service sector.
    • Documentation – documenting disaster; lessons learned; updating DRM Plan for risk mitigation.

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