REPORT ON DISASTOR MANAGEMENT - ASSIGNMENT SOLUTION

Background to The Situation

The occurrence of natural disasters and the damages it has been causing has led different societies to set the risk management program for themselves recently (Chtouki, 2007). Morocco, as like many other countries in the world, has been suffering with several consequences of the floods and earthquakes (Chtouki, 2007). The occurrence of natural disasters in the Berechid Town was certainly a calamitous event as it caused property damage and resulted in loss of human lives. The natural disasters of such kind are source of the major losses in Morocco. 

Even the leading economies around the world like Japan, China and Tukey have suffered the consequences of floods and earthquakes. For example, the tsunami in Japan caused 20,000 deaths in 2011, the earthquake in China resulted in 80,000 deaths in 2008 while the earthquake in Turkey caused 19,000 people to die in 1999 (Nakahara and Ichikawa, 2013; Chen, 2009). The natural disasters like the one in Berechid causes human suffering and social, economic and political upheavals. According to Boin and McConnell (2008), the post crisis phase is the most important one as during this phase, the issue of accountability and blaming initiates. Ulmer et al. (2007) also indicated the “crisis after crisis” to be the prime leadership challenge that holds the societies spellbound even after the natural disaster affected people are dealt with.

This report is written to provide information on maximum food weight to trapped people, maximum water required for trapped people and efficient method for transportation of food and water through Pouncer drones and C-130. 

Internal Environmental Factors

Most of the coverage on the natural disaster usually focus on extent of the physical damage i.e. lost lives, ruining of infrastructure and destruction of buildings (Aldrich, 2010). The overall speed of recovery is dependent upon the extent of damage caused by the natural disasters. 

Resources:

IRC has currently a fleet of 100 NATO AS532 Cougar helicopters that are available within 3 days to begin the final evacuation. It has 5 C-130 transport aircrafts and 2000 Pouncer drones. 

Capabilities:

IRC has the current capacity of dealing with two concurrent large-scale emergency situations. IRC believes in responding to four large scale emergencies on simultaneous basis. It is currently looking at increasing the proportion of people served for reaching 10% of the total of the affected people in a given emergency. 

Core Competencies:

IRC’s core competencies include immediate response towards emergency situations within 5 hours of natural disaster. With such a low response time, the other competitors and other NGOs are ignored by the French Government to deal with such a sensitive issue. 

Crisis and Disaster Management

In response to natural disasters, Morocco has become major city with an integrated strategy for hazards management. The country is exposed to floods, tsunamis and earthquakes with its risk exceeding average of DH 5 billion a year. Governmental and NGOs responses towards disasters like earthquake is based on availability of expert’s opinion, supplies, money and fast responsive strategy. Local and national committees like Red Cross are currently focused towards providing immediate rescue and mass care services to the affected areas.  According to Boin et al. (2017), the effective crisis management strategy is required for providing safety to citizens and for re-establishing the sense of normalcy. 

In the given scenario, the earthquake in Berrechid destroyed the electricity generation, water purification and roads around the town. Around 16,000 young people are found trapped in the town between ages of 18 and 22.