Capacity building sector specific
Emergency capacity building project: ITR assessment report: global response September 2005 – March 2006
Can better information improve emergency response?
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Inter-agency Working Group on Emergency Capacity, 2007
This report presents the assessment findings of the Interagency Working Group (IWG) collaborative capacity-building effort. The assessment includes the field perspectives of IWG emergency operations in Pakistan and Sudan.
Key findings include the following:
- one gap identified through the review was the need for rapid, reliable, flexible, multi-media communications- there remains much to do to ensure that ICT is contributing to rapid, effective humanitarian action
- Internet Communication Technology (ICT) problems had in some cases significantly hampered agency response
- certain partnerships with the private sector, academic institutions or other NGOs demonstrated a very open approach to solving problems, and are a very positive sign.
The report concludes that Information alone will not sustain an emergency response, but it should be considered the starting point for nearly all activities and IWG need to begin treating it as the critical resource that it is.
