# Presentation: 216423

## Complex Emergency and Disaster Management Programs of Study

- Welcome!!

## Importance of the Problem

## Trend in Global Disaster Events, 1970-99 

- Source: CRED: Conflict Data through 1996

**Trend in Global Disaster Events, 1970-99 **

- Number of Events (Nat. Dis.)

## Disaster Causes and Effects: We Know Where They Will Happen

**Disaster Causes and Effects: We Know Where They Will Happen**

## Humanitarian Assistance Spending

**Humanitarian Assistance Spending**

## Program History

- Increasing student involvement in CE/DM areas
- Strategic planning exercise
- Self study
- Advisory Board of IO/NGO executives

## Information management specialists
Senior and mid-level emergency program managers
HPN sector program coordinators
Food and nutrition project managers
Reproductive health project managers
Mental health/trauma/management of psychosocial aspects of disasters/CEs
Policy analysts and academic career track

**Senior and mid-level emergency program managers**
**HPN sector program coordinators**
**Food and nutrition project managers**
**Reproductive health project managers**
**Mental health/trauma/management of psychosocial aspects of disasters/CEs**
**Policy analysts and academic career track**

**Students to be Prepared for the Following Professional Roles**

## Key Competencies: CE/DM Program

- Identify the key information requirements for vulnerability and risk assessment, initial disaster assessments and monitoring and evaluation systems for CE/DM
- Utilize internet technology to access necessary technical expertise for CE/DM in real time settings
- Coordinate effectively with the international CE/DM system

## Key Competencies: CE/DM Program (cont)

- Prioritize key interventions according to disaster type, population context, and stage of disaster life cycle
- Design interventions programs in compliance with SPHERE minimum standards
- Perform a do-no-harm analysis
- Identify linkages between relief and development programming
- Develop a project or program proposal, consistent with key donor agency guidelines

## Key Competencies: CE/DM Program (cont)

- Manage personal risks such as landmines, combat situations, kidnap and hostage situations, psychological stress

## Early warning/Vulnerability/Risk assessment research
Evaluation methodologies
Nutritional assessment techniques
Behavioral research on post conflict and post disaster recovery transition
Development of information management and IT-assisted learning tools

- Evaluation methodologies
- Nutritional assessment techniques
- Behavioral research on post conflict and post disaster recovery transition
- Development of information management and IT-assisted learning tools

**Research and Practice Themes**

## Strategic Partners

**Strategic Partners**

## Disaster Management Initiatives

**Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA)**
- A program focusing on disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery in the Americas through:
- Training,
- Research, and
- Facilitating civil-military cooperation (major partner is USSOUTHCOM).
- CDMHA also facilitates public-private sector partnerships

## Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative (CERTI)
Addresses unstable conflict/hazard context of Sub-Saharan Africa
Provides analytical support to USAID’s Africa Bureau for Crisis Mitigation and Recovery (CMR)
Undertakes policy analysis and applied research towards more effective linkages between emergency and development programming

- Addresses unstable conflict/hazard context of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Provides analytical support to USAID’s Africa Bureau for Crisis Mitigation and Recovery (CMR)
- Undertakes policy analysis and applied research towards more effective linkages between emergency and development programming

**Disaster Management Initiatives**

## A few points of interest for FEMA EMI conference participants

- Africa Collection for Transition (ACT) Library: full-text search digital library for disaster/CE management in international settings (esp. Africa)
- Global higher education assessment and inventory project

## Additional Resources

-   Nancy Mock’s website
- _[www.tulane.edu/~mock](http://www.tulane.edu/~mock)_
-   Linking Complex Emergency and Transition Initiative
- _[www.certi.org](http://www.certi.org/)_
-   Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian
-       Assistance
- _[www.cdmha.org](http://www.cdmha.org/)_

**Additional Resources**