Transcription of Emergency Preparedness & Response Handbook
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Emergency Preparedness & Response Handbook
EmergencyPreparedness & ResponseHandbookAcknowledgementsPublishe d by Catholic Relief Services, November Quality and Support DepartmentCatholic Relief Services209 W. Fayette , MD guidelines are a product of the CRS Emergency Response Team (ERT), a unit of theProgram Quality and Support Department (PQSD). Annemarie Reilly is the primary Aker contributed to the section on conceptual frameworks and food security. Much ofthe information related to disaster prevention, mitigation and Preparedness is borroweddirectly or adapted from the CRS Mitigation Handbook (Kristen Hicks, 1996). Theinformation regarding contingency planning is adapted from the United Nations Contingency Planning: A Practical Guide for Field Staff (Complex Emergencies TrainingInitiative-CETI, 1996).
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines disaster as “a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction.” We would add to this that a disaster can also be slow-onset such as with droughts. The word emergency most often refers to the results of such an event or events. The Merriam Webster dictionary
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