Post Disaster Planning and Development for NGOs and Humanitarian Organizations

Our mission in this new organization is to provide services to assist families who suffer the effects of natural disasters. These services will include medical services, temporary shelter, water, food and counseling to all families in need. We will work with other responding agencies to provide clean up and expect to remain on site until such time as the area becomes self- sustaining. We will bring in food kitchens and provide prepared meals both at these stations and in a meals-on-wheels service. We will also provide potable water and emergency contact services. Management of donations both at the collections and distribution levels will have to be a part of the organizations services. This management includes supplies for medical care and clean up and will involve securing a warehouse site in conjunction with other providers. Blood drives will have to be arranged. Financial assistance for those left destitute will also be required. Shelter, baby supplies and free day care are essential components of service provision so that parents can return to gainful employment as soon as possible.

Effective disaster management is highly important when it comes to assisting in rescue and relief to affected. This does not only include post disaster rescue efforts but these disaster management activities should be proactive. They start right from taking preventive measures before the disaster actually occurs and goes on till the effected people are resettled back in their lives. This disaster management pertaining to human life is not only associated with physical well being but also focuses on psychological, emotional, and spiritual rehabilitation.

The leader needs to instill urgency into the workers and volunteers of the ARC. Taking an organization that’s on its knees requires great cooperation, initiative, and willingness to make sacrifices from many people (Kotter, 2011). Based on the case study, the ARC lacks all these characteristics for change to occur. It needs to look how to improve its response times, how to become more efficient in collecting denotations and how to prioritize and quickly distribute the donations it receives in a fair and efficient manner. It needs to hold its leaders to a higher standard that will instill a culture of high moral standard in its employees and volunteers. Once the nation sees a change in the behavior of the ARC they will be more willing to give donations and their time to support disaster relief efforts.

David Rieff talks about the idea of the “international community which gives both the humanitarian worker and the victims of crisis “false hope” that something will be done (Rieff, 2003). He says that “the moment one taps on to the idea of the international community, it (humanitarianism) falls part like a toy” (Rieff 2003, p.9). The concept of international community, however vague or disastrous it might seem or sound, is also the source of logistics for

Throughout the world, there are many humanitarian organizations, there are many that we don’t know of. Some of these humanitarian programmes range from local, national to international. There will be one of each of these organizations introduced.

The disaster response program in the United States consists of a number of different elements that must work together to achieve common outcomes-such as the rapid alleviation of suffering by the victims of a natural disaster, industrial accident, or terrorist attack (Miskel, 2008). Responding to each disaster presents its own unique set of challenges. An effective disaster response program will consist of several elements working as one. The specific elements vary depending on the location and the nature of the disaster or terrorist incident, but fall into three general categories: the private sector (including individuals and both corporations and non-profit entities such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army), state and local government

In conclusion, it is no surprise that the Doctors Without Borders organization is one of the world’s leading relief organizations for devastated and needy people. Started in France in 1971, it has grown to an international entity that reaches all corners of the earth. It is the ability of this organization to work simultaneously at the international, intermediate, and local levels, as a result of globalization, uneven geographies and neoliberalism that make MSF such an effective disaster relief aid. Famine, epidemics, malnutrition, death and the other numerous problems around the world can be tackled on multiple levels and dealt with by organizations like Doctors Without Borders, because of globalization and the integration of the various scales

Disasters are events that not in control situations which exceed public sector capacities, push societal linkages to a breaking point, and demand extraordinary and selfless behavior from citizens, businesses, communities, and nongovernmental organizations. Disasters challenge have their most sorrowful impact at the level of the individual, where crises of natural and technical variety undermine the comfort and stability people feel and leave them injure, and looking for direction and meaning in institutions and believed larger than themselves. Even when local government officials act relating, individuals still look to other segments of the public sector, such as nonprofit groups or religious organizations, for urgency needed support. In a

The Red Cross is one organisation that provides cares the ones who need it most. The network of the movement is composed of all the donors and other supportive and assisting people that are there to help. The movement is providing support with its employees and anyone who wishes to help. They take care of the disasters and are the relief disposers of the reconstruction of any of the problems and the shelter provisions in the time of the disaster that is their main focus with other activities like the supporting of the people of the military personnel’s that are protecting the nation and they help the people respond to the challenges of the military life that is there and that needs to be attended to in order to be compensated. (American Red Cross, 2015)

Numerous definitions of disasters exist with differing criteria such as the number of fatalities or amount of property damage. This author defines disasters in the following manner. Within a country a disaster occurs when its magnitude overwhelms the ability of the local resources to adequately respond the to victims. For international disasters, the magnitude must overwhelm the ability of the entire country to adequately respond to the victims. The philosophy, mission, and purpose for domestic disaster assistance shall now be compared and contrasted with international disaster assistance.

The International Non-Governmental Organization is Mercy Corps. This organization helps people when an emergency occurs. For example, a natural disaster, when there is a collapse in the economy or when there's a conflict. It has contributed to ending or at least try to end some human rights issues like poverty, water and sanitation, food, and sometimes education. It works by the belief " a better world is possible". Mercy Corps was founded by Dan O'Neill in 1979. The mission, according to its own website says "Alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities". Its headquarter is in Portland, OR, USA but it operates worldwide. In that year (1979), O'Neill create it to help the Cambodian

Private and non-profit sectors plays a major role in a disaster operations providing unlimited services that boost the effectiveness of government disaster response (both short and long term),

After the disaster, encouraging humanitarian aids from people, organizations and Non-governmental organizations can be performed by the media. They could also follow up the rebuilding process, supervise the budget spending in the disaster area and help to identify the weaknesses of the disaster management process in an effort to prevent or better handle future disasters (Ghassabi & Firoozeh, 2015).

Humanitarians' actions are known globally for their main goals of saving lives, alleviate suffering and maintaining human dignity after conflicts, shocks as well as natural disasters. The reconstruction and relief funds also help in the financing of projects in case of a disaster, during or after the crisis, where they offer social and economic support to the victims. Some of the globally known organizations that are involved include WFP, CARE, IFRC, AAH, exam international, UNICEF and Red Cross. With the current problems facing different countries, poverty, vulnerability and humanitarian need continue to challenge the world's capacity to prevent, respond and restoration after a crisis. There is a need to support these programs through donations so that they can spread to all parts of the world.

Many United Nations agencies are working together to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan. Among them are the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. These agencies work tirelessly to provide refugee assistance, rehabilitation, infrastructure rebuilding, and humanitarian aid to one of the poorest countries in the world. As the official war against the Taliban has subsided, and as refugees have begun the long process of returning