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GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY SIMULATION
ANNEX A.04.02: GES IRA (INITIAL RAPID ASSESSMENT) REPORT FORM | Pg 55
GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY SIMULATION
ANNEX A.04.02: GES IRA (INITIAL RAPID ASSESSMENT) REPORT FORM | Pg 56
ANNEX A.04.02
GES IRA (INITIAL RAPID ASSESSMENT) REPORT FORM
The GES IRA Report is used to provide enough basic data for participants to begin preparing the response.
Amount of Adaptation
Needed
Adaptation Planning
Schedule
Significant review and revision for each GES event to ensure
report details correspond to hazard type and country-specific
affected areas and population groups.
Initial draft should be prepared at least one month in advance
to enable input and feedback from the Technical Focal Point
who may wish to insert additional details in the IRA Report.
The IRA report is a critical document for your exercise; plan to spend a good deal of time and effort
preparing it. In essence, the IRA report can be considered the “trigger” for the participants’ response
planning work. It provides them with early damage and needs assessment data, enabling them to begin
preparing their response plans.
The fictional premise behind the IRA report is that the government has already, at the time of the Opening
Meeting, received some initial findings from regional government or from emergency service personnel
who are attending the scene and that information on the disaster should soon be forthcoming.
In reality, the GES IRA report will be handed out to all participants at the end of the Opening Meeting.
They will, therefore, have “data” with which they can begin planning a response as soon as they return to
their offices.
BEST PRACTICES
Revise the IRA report format to fit your needs. Bear in mind that in developing your IRA data, a delicate
balance with regard to detail is needed. Try to include enough to enable participants to begin their
response planning – but not so much that they become lost in data at the start of the exercise: more data
can always be forthcoming in later reports as needed.
Given your chosen hazard type and affected areas, try to imagine what an IRA team – i.e. two or three
emergency responders or members of the local town council/local government service who have observed
the affected areas, talked to people and gathered as much information as a small number of people
are capable of doing and are reporting back to their supervisors. Then develop your data, using the
categories of most use to your exercise.
A blank IRA Report form is provided on the next page. Use whichever sections are relevant to your GES
event.
Samples of IRA Reports used in previous GES events can be found in the “Documents from
Previous GES Events” folder.
GES
Initial Rapid Assessment (IRA) Report Form
Type of Disaster: ___________________________ Date: _____________ Time: _______________
Region 1 Region 2 Region 3
1 DEMOGRAPHICS: (male/female) (male/female) (male/female)
Population (Est.)
Main livelihoods
# Affected
# Homeless*
# Deaths*
# Missing*
# Injured*
Most vulnerable groups
2 SECURITY & SAFETY:
General situation
Other threats
Police offices (functioning?)
Fire services (functioning?)
3 TRANSPORT / COMMUNICATIONS:
Roads (% blocked)
Major bridges (% destroyed)
Cell-phone networks (functioning?)
4 WATER / SANITATION
Potable water (% of pop. in need)
Water sources
Access to sanitation facilities (% of pop.
in need)
5 SHELTER / HOUSING
# of Damaged houses
# of Destroyed houses
6 FOOD SECURITY & NUTRITION
Availability in markets (Y/N)
Food prices (rising?)
Household access (as % of pop.)
Food insecure (as % of pop.)
7 AGRICULTURE / FISHING
Farmland destroyed (% losses)
Dead animals (% losses)
Fishing equipment (% losses)
8 HEALTH
Reported diseases outbreaks
Health infrastructure (% damaged)
Services (% non-functioning)
9 EDUCATION
Schools (% damaged)