UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) mission

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UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC)
mission

• 12 24 March 2006

11 January 2006 UN Disaster Risk Management
Project (UNDRMP)
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UNDAC

• The United Nations Disaster Assessment and
  Coordination (UNDAC) team is a stand-by team of
  disaster management professionals who are
  nominated and funded by member governments, OCHA,
  UNDP and operational humanitarian United Nations
  Agencies such as WFP, UNICEF and WHO.

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UNDAC cont.

• Mostly assessing response needs, but upon request
  of a disaster prone country, the UNDAC team can
  be deployed to carry out assessment of disaster
  preparedness and priority needs and to provide
  recommendations to national Authorities and the
  United Nations Resident Coordinator on how to
  improve it.

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Mission Goal

• An evaluation of the capacities of the National
  Disaster Management System and its executive
  level in the areas of disaster preparedness and
  response
• Recommendations towards the strengthening of
  relevant areas, including the required follow-up
  for implementation of the recommendations
• Recommendations on how to strengthen the
  implementation of the recently revised policies
  and legislation
• A mission report summarising the analysis and
  conclusions, and including a listing of the
  recommendations.

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Mission report will include

• Evaluation of the disaster response capacity,
  including
• Ministry of Emergency Situations Search and
  Rescue services including the appropriateness of
  equipment with them
• State Emergency Commissions, at central as well
  as at local levels
• Coordination mechanisms
• The system for procurement, warehousing and
  management of relief goods in the event of a
  disaster
• Emergency telecommunications and information
  management during disasters
• Damage assessment and needs analysis capacity
• Adequacy of human resource capacity in disaster
  management systems
• Capacity of mountain SAR units
• Procedures for the arrival and integration of
  international actors
• Whether disaster contingency planning is
  adequate.
• Assessment and monitoring of adverse events and
  early warning systems for
• Mud- and land slides
• Earthquakes
• Floods
• Avalanches.
• Arrangements for public education and awareness
  for suitable response to disasters.
• Legal framework and mandate of the National
  Disaster Management System.
• Recommendation on how to establish the National
  Disaster Preparedness Plan.

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Methodology

• The evaluation will be carried out at three
  levels
• 1) Ministry of Emergency Situations and Civil
  Defence (MoES)
• The mission would include diagnose of the
  functioning of the coordinating entity and its
  various components, including REACT.
• 2) MoES and ministries and agencies involved in
  the permanent components of the national disaster
  management system. The mission will
• determine the level of integration of those
  components in the system at all levels (state,
  province, district)
• clarify the constraints to the functioning of the
  system
• discuss the suitability of the legal framework
  for disaster management
• 3) Analyse effectiveness of the arrangements for
  the National Disaster Risk Management Partnership
  REACT and other actors involved in disaster
  response in the country (i.e. State Emergency
  Commissions), to be integrated into the overall
  response.

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Organizations to meet (GoT)

• Ministry of Emergency Situations (IMAC,
  Tsentrospas, Usoi Department, etc.)
• Training Center of MoES
• Center for Coordination of Projects on
  Liquidation of Consequences of Natural Disasters,
  MoES
• Regional MoES Offices in Garm, Khujand, Kulyab
  and GBAO.
• Committee on the Protection of Environment and
  Forestry
• State Committee on Statistics
• Ministry of Labor and Social Protection
• Ministry of Health
• Republican Epidemiological Center
• Ministry of Melioration and Water Resources
• Ministry of Agriculture
• Ministry of Economy and Trade
• Ministry of Transport
• Department of Ecology and Emergency Situations by
  the Presidential Office
• Agency for Hydrometeorology
• Institute of Seismology
• GlavGeology
• Tojikkoinot

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Organizations to meet (others)

• Donors
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
• ECHO
• USAID
• Asian Development Bank
• International organizations
• Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan
• International Federation of Red Cross
• FOCUS Humanitarian Assistance

• UN
• World Food Program
• World Health Organization
• UNHCR
• UNICEF
• IOM
• UN ISDR
• UNDP

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