Complex Emergency and Disaster Management Programs of Study

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Complex Emergency and Disaster Management
Programs of Study
Welcome!!
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• Importance of the Problem

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Trend in Global Disaster Events, 1970-99
Number of Events (Nat. Dis.)
Source CRED Conflict Data through 1996
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Disaster Causes and Effects We Know Where They
Will Happen
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Humanitarian Assistance Spending
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Program History

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

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Students to be Prepared for the Following
Professional Roles

• 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

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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

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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

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Key Competencies CE/DM Program (cont)

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

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Research and Practice Themes

• 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

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Strategic Partners
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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

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Disaster Management Initiatives

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

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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

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Additional Resources

• For further information about courses and
  programs in CE/DM (mock_at_tulane.edu)
• Nancy Mocks website
• www.tulane.edu/mock
• Linking Complex Emergency and Transition
  Initiative
• www.certi.org
• Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian
  
• Assistance
• www.cdmha.org