Emergency Operationsin 2005

March 23, 2006

2005 – A Year of Disasters

• High visibility, high impact natural disasters

Asian tsunami

Hurricane Katrina

Pakistan earthquake

2005 – A Year of Disasters

• Low visibility, high impact, chronic political crisis

Darfur, Chad, DRC, Chechnya - war and displacement

Horn of Africa – famine

IMC Approach• IMC programs are needs based

– Rapid, participatory assessment– Affected communities and institutions

determine priorities and modalities– Accountability– IMC uses best practices in emergency

program and listens to project participants– Cross-cutting themes: mental health,

protection, gender

IMC Project Participants• IMC focuses on the most vulnerable• Services, protection, community engagement and advocacy

IMC Integrated programs

Aceh

Mental Health

WatSan

Reconstruction

Vocational training

Income generation

Health

Livelihoods

Needs Assessment

IMC Frontiers• Operating in insecure locations• Access areas few organizations serve• Disaster preparedness – Avian Flu, SEPRI, E.

Africa

IMC Long-Term Engagement• Remain engaged in the long-term to address

underlying vulnerability and ongoing crisis– Enable communities to reach a higher developmental

stage in protracted crisis– Apply lessons learned from emergency stage to

development– Establish relationships with sufficient time for long-term

training and advocacy– Ability to achieve long-term sustainability upon exiting

Sustainability of impact is an early goal

– Afghanistan’s IbnSina is now a strong local NGO serving the needs of thousands of local residents

– Indonesia SEPRI program strengthens national emergency preparedness and response capacity

– Eritrea community credit associations are now a long-lasting source of funding for local livelihoods activities

– Chechnya’s community action groups advocate for and organize to provide vital services to thousands of returning refugees

– In Bosnia SEZAM continues to address the long-term mental health of the local population ten years after the war ended

– Sierra Leone fistula repair is now done by MOH

IMC Response Capacity• Respond quickly and appropriately

– HR surge in capacity• Roster of experienced volunteers• Roving IMC staff• Draw on other field teams in neighboring regions

– Revolving fund for quick response– In 2005 our programs benefited 1 million people in Indonesia and 700,000 in Sri Lanka

IMC Staff Utilization• Cultivate appropriate and flexible organizational resources

– IMC recognizes the skills of its staff and partners across the world and utilizes them in other IMC programs to progressively builds institutional knowledge and capacity

– A high proportion of IMC national staff become expatriates and apply the experiences in their home countries elsewhere

– A high number of former colleagues have started their careers with IMC and gone on to senior positions in other organizations including USAID, UN agencies, universities and other NGOs

IMC and the International Community

• IMC coordinates its work with partners– Member of IASC health cluster, gender task force

and mental health task force– Member of InterAction– Participant in a variety of in-country emergency

consortia, working groups, technical forums– Close working relationships with host governments

• Strives to meet or exceed international standards

Future Challenges• Start-up funding• Technical HR• Advocacy and resources for hidden

emergencies

Emergency Operations in 2005

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