Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Response Capability Development effort
Abstract
As witnessed in Haiti, during Hurricane Katrina, and with the Asian Tsunami, coordinating the international community’s emergency responses remains an unsolved – yet critical - challenge. Without a shared diagnosis of the problem space and an assessment of the resources available to address that problem space, the unity of effort needed to effectively respond in a crisis environment will remain elusive. While all responding organizations share a common intent, to save lives and alleviate the suffering of those affected by these events, this intent is delivered with different end states, timeframes and capabilities in mind. These perspectives differ markedly between military, government and non-government organizations. In previous humanitarian responses this has led to a lack of unity amongst various responders and the host nation government, resulting in a time gap between quickly available financial, human, and relief resources and their application to problems faced on the ground. This project seeks to determine how unity of effort can be achieved to help close the gap between identifying resources and their rapid utilization. The first phase involved a workshop focused on the development and broad application of technological solutions coupled with sound operational concepts. The workshop sought to ask and answer the fundamental questions: In a fast onset disaster, how do we generate unity of effort amongst all actors when unity of command is neither possible nor desirable and what technologies can contribute to this effort?
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- c8641ffd45a9bb886e0b22d858600752
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