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EXPECTED NEEDS ASSESSMENT |
CHALLENGES |
GOVT. SUGGESTIONS |
LARGER AGENCY SUGGESTIONS |
LOCAL NGO
SUGGESTIONS |
EXPATRIAT COMMUNITY SUGGESTIONS |
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Search and Rescue |
1.Access
2. Lack of appropriate machinery
3. EMS systems weakness and access.
4.
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1. Primary agency managing this.
2. Seek help from where-ever and whatever source needed
3. Seek Country level assistance
4. Activate all disaster plans perviously planned and outlined
5. Move human resources and expertise moved
6. Command and control center
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1. Provide help
2. Use expertise
3. Coordinate care with govt.
4. Update international donors
5. Help with expertise to local agencies
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1) Increase delivery mechanisms
2) Recruit trained volunteers
3) Trained recruited volunteers
4) Coordinate with government and NGOs
5) Understand changing needs
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1. Assess level of damage
2. Understand your physical distance limitations
3. Assess your strengths
4. DO NOT create your own NGO at this time.
5. Empower existing organizations who are reliable
6. Start focusing on FUND RAISING
7. Start planning for long term rebuilding.
8. Change lifestyles to accommodate the new found responsibilities.
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1) Food
2) Shelter (Tents)
3) Warm coverings/Blankets
4) Clean water
5) Vaccines
6) Basic Medical needs with public health perspective
7) Some specialized care i.e.
O rthopedic surgery.
Pediatric surgery
Pediatrics
Psychiatry services
etc.
8) Migration needs as refugees or permanent residents
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1.Health care support to survivors
2. Appropriate and timely disposal of the bodies
3.Logistcial nightmare
4. Too many discoordinated helpers (on their own)
5. The magnitude
6. Access
7. Cold weather + on-ging rainfall
8. Possible looting
9. Weak hosts at high risks
10. Leaving disaster areas.
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1. Coordinate needs with supplies
2. Save the most vulnerable and savable people
3. DO NOT SHY from asking for help
4. Develop communication mechanisms
5. Use media appropriately to reach-out to all people
6. Preserve law and order at all costs
7. Triage with the appropriate local, international groups.
8. Help in the migration and providing newer housing/shelter
in new areas
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1. Empower the governments efforts
to provide the needs.
2. Coordinate with specialists in management i.e. Doctors
without borders, Americare, Save the children etc. based on
their specific expertise.
3. Raise funds to help.
4. Assess needs and communicate through the chain
5. Tents/shelter/Food water etc.
6. Vaccines
7. Medications
8. Specialty medical services
9. Use international networks for fund raising
10. Help channel more funds for fulfilling needs
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1) Understand the magnitude of disaster
2) Help maximize outreach
3) Coordinate local volunteers
4) Keep pace with the needs and develop shift work
5) Setup communication systems.
6) Work with larger NGOs and Government component of work
7) Identify and provide shelters to refugees
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1) Understand the magnitude of disaster
2) Work as a team
3 ) Use all efforts to raise funds
4) Get US politicians etc to help with the coordinated long
term fund raising
5) Try and fulfill specialty needs
6) The magnitude of this disaster would require you to reach
out to larger community, therefore set up targets to reach out
your neighborhoods, schools, corporations etc.
7) Develop and implement
local fund raising strategy
8) Involve local and US based media
9) Change lifestyles to accommodate the new found responsibilities. |
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1)Winter (next 4-5 months)
2) Mass migration
3) Congested living environment
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1) Public health crisis
2) Cold related complications
3) Infectious disease complications
4) Emotional challenges
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1) Public health infrastructure in refugee
towns
2) Vaccines/mass immunization
3) law and order
4) Clean water
5) Sanitation
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1) Nutritional support
2) Help with vaccination
3) Medication supplementations
4) Rehab planning |
1) Vaccination volunteers
2) Emotional support
3) Community health workers
4) Education
5) Identify high risk children and adults
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1) Resources for NGOs performing the
work
2) Plan regarding long term rehabilitation
3) Economy building projects
4) Health care projects |
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1.Family reunion
2. Family rebuilding
3. Protection from human trafficking
4. Psychological support
5. Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
6. Nutritional Deficiencies
7. Developing sense of normalcy
8. Return to jobs/schools and development of self reliance.
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1. Pressure to rebuild again without
focus and plan
2. Lack of coordination in rebuilding
3. Resources may get dry as a lot would get used and donor fatigue
may be on the horizon.
4. Creating newer economy.
5. Doing the rebuilding part right both physically and functionally.
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1) Strong controls over human trafficking
2) Coordinating with the agencies to fulfill needs
3) Focus on development of a rehabilitation and rebuilding
program
4) Re-uniting families: Using all forms of media
5) Develop and a primary health care system in the areas that
are being rebuilt.
6) Inculcate self help.
7) Identify ways and means to increase livelihood of the people
locally and ways of developing newer, better local economies.
8) Re-evaluate plans to make sure there is no further room
for improvements
9) Social workers network in the area.
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1) Provide expertise to local NGO to
help the rebuilding process
2) Reversal of roles. Now the larger NGO/agencies to provide
local smaller ones with resources to implement a smarter locally
acceptable, but modern rebuilding plan, with physician and intellectual
infra structure opportunities.
3) Remain committed to the region as this would be at least
a 10 year return to some level of normalcy
4) Continue to reach out for international funds
5) Identify ways and means to increase livelihood of the people
locally and ways of developing newer, better local economies.
6) Re-evaluate plans to make sure there is no further room for
improvements |
1. Local specialized NGOs increase plans
to make model villages with other NGOs joining in with their
expertise e.g. Schools and education part.
Water and sanitation part,
Human development part and identify sources for sponsorship.
2. Understand that this would be a unique opportunity for doing
it right. Rebuild environmentally appropriate villages and systems
to rebuild the part of the wounded nation.
3. Continue to help re-uniting families
4. Inculcate self reliance and self help in all projects
5. Re-evaluate plans to make sure there is no further room for
improvements |
1. Identify homes in the US for adoption
for good families.
2. Plan to adopt a child if you have enough commitment and love
in your heart.
3. Continue to raise funds.
4. Create a Foundation for long term rehabilitation
5. Idenitfy local community intellectual resources for rebuilding
and rehabilitation
6. Communities develop plans to adopt: villages
7. Empower good long term plans and remain committed.
8. Protect against donor fatigue. Identify smarter ways to raise
funds.
9. Help create foundations
10. Change lifestyles to accommodate the new found responsibilities.
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Restructure/ Rethink and re-plan disaster
management for the entire Country |
Undoing the previous set up
2. Development of state of the art system
3. Institutionalize systems
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1. Prioritize
2. Focus and empower
3. Frequent drills for different scenarios
4. Disaster mitigation and management strategies with frequent
reevaluations |
1. Provide resources
2. Training of trainers
3. Regular conferences and partnership plans. |
1. Recruit volunteers
2. Identify special NGO with this focus
3. Need masters for specific types of disasters.
4. All NGOs should identify their niche and stick with those
only.
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1. Support this initiative
2. Provide intellectual support
3. Use US based
personnel for helping evaluate and train Pakistan based individuals
4. Empower with technological advances.
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