Disaster Management Capacity from a National Perspective

Capacity development projects must be based on a thorough understanding of the situation within the subject country. However, the assessment phase is a very complex process and should cover a great number of aspects that both in time and space could affect the outcome of a triggering event. This project tries to identify what general aspects that could affect a country’s Disaster Management Capacity, and to what extent these are covered by assessment models, with a national perspective, used by agencies such as the United Nations and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in disaster prone countries. Our main conclusion, based on previous research, relevant literature and semi‐structured interviews, was that no holistic model for capacity assessments exist to this date. Thus, less detailed guiding documents and models with limited scope were analysed. We also constructed a framework of central aspects that could affect a country’s DMC. The input to the framework was based on literature and semi‐structured interviews. We found that the analysed documents only covered a limited number of aspects and that in order to achieve an as holistic assessment as possible; different documents needs to be combined