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persons and organizations involved in the initial response. Expanded rapid assessment
is designated to guide response for the medium term, i.e. roughly three to four months,
depending on how much situation is improved and stabilized 19 .
(1) Primary Purpose of Initial Rapid Assessment
(a) To understand the nature and impact of the disaster.
(b) Initial decision to be made on whether assistance is needed or not.
(c) A decision is to be made on whether local capacity is adequate or
external resources are required.
(d) To establish priorities of intervention and intervention strategy.
(e) Identify necessary resources.
(f) Information to collect for fund raising and advocacy work.
(2) Initial Rapid Assessment - National Level. In the national level emergency
NDMA supports PDMA, DDMA and is responsible to conduct initial rapid
assessment within 48-72 hours of aftermath of the disaster. NDMA can form a
team of 6-8 members from different departments who conduct the initial rapid
assessment. The members and composition of the team can be flexible and it is
according to the situation and availability of the human resources. This team is
supervised and guided by the NDMA. The assessment team will present report
to the concerned PDMA and NDMA. NDMA will be responsible to send repot to
the relevant miniseries/ departments and other stakeholders at federal level.
PDMA will be responsible to send report to the relevant ministry and
departments and relevant stakeholders at provincial levels.
(a) National Disaster Management Authority.
(b) Provincial Disaster Management Authority.
(c) DDMA.
(d) Health Department.
(e) Public Health Engineering Department.
(f) Livestock Department provincial/district level.
(g) Agriculture Department provincial and district level.
(h) Communication and works /Social Welfare Department.
(j) Civil society representatives.
(3) The Federal Government may approach International Organizations (World
Bank, Asian Development Bank, UN Agencies etc) to undertake assessment of
specified disaster affected areas, if deemed necessary.
19 UNICEF Emergency Handbook, UNHCR Emergency Handbook, WHO Health Assessment Guidelines and
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