Background: In 2010, UNICEF received a grant from DG ECHO under its Disaster Preparedness (DIPECHO) programme to implement two disaster risk reduction projects—one in South Caucasus and the other in Central Asia.
While some respondents felt the implementation problem was a result of poor policies and strategies being crafted in the first place, the general argument appears to be that, if there is adequate preparedness and facilitation to implement, better outcomes can be obtained.
Illing et al. [ 12] have attributed the lack of medical graduates' preparedness to a failure to implement the apprenticeship model of learning or 'learning on the job' during medical education.
In conclusion, it has become apparent over the past 15 years that filovirus infections pose a definite public health risk in those areas where contacts with the still largely unknown reservoir may occur and early warning systems as well as preparedness plans are hard to implement.
The science of preparedness planning is still maturing [4] [6] and there is relatively little systematic evidence for linking specific preparedness structures to the ability to implement efficient and effective responses [5], [6].
Considerable financial resources have been devoted to pandemic influenza preparedness planning at the federal and state levels (6, 7 ); however, resources at state and local levels may be inadequate to implement a robust preparedness plan (8, 9 ).
Nutrition Preparedness The European Commission – Directorate General Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection ECHOhashas funded UNICEF to implement a project on enhancing disaster preparedness and response of nutrition cluster partner organizations.
"We should not wait for a catastrophic accident at or a terrorist attack on a nuclear reactor in this country to occur to implement this common-sense emergency preparedness measure," Markey wrote.
Designing the exercises involved substantial collaboration with representatives from participating health departments to assure that the scenarios were credible, focused attention on local preparedness needs and priorities, and were logistically feasible to implement.
Our findings demonstrate that flood-risk preparedness can be undermined by low levels of efficacy amongst individuals in terms of the preparedness measures available to them and their own personal capacity to implement them.
