Created: 14 October 2022
Last edited: 30 January 2023
Managing Spontaneous Volunteers in Times of Disaster
Quick Facts
Publishing Organisation:
FEMA
Year:
2018
Languages:
English
Covers Thematic
Unaffiliated volunteers Spontaneous or unaffiliated volunteers are individuals or groups that:</br>*arrive unsolicited at the scene of a disaster</br>*may or may not be a resident of the affected community</br>*may or may not possess skills necessary to respond to the current disaster</br>*are not associated with any part of the existing emergency management system </br></br>Source: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Archive/202852NCJRS.pdf
Target audience
Civil Society Civil society is a target group in LINKS which comprises citizens, civil society organizations, educational institutions, vulnerable groups, social movement organizations
Policy Makers local, national, and European agencies and institutes, public authorities, standardization bodies
Practitioners Practitioners is a target group in LINKS which comprises local, national and European disaster management organizations, civil protection agencies, first responders, NGOs, security networks...
Disaster Management Phase
Synopsis
No synopsis provided.
The document is intended to serve as a basis for a national strategy that fundamentally recognizes the extraordinary resource volunteers can be in an emergency management system structured to integrate and fully utilize their contributions.
