Evacuation Center Management

Question 1

Measures taken immediately prior to and following disaster impact, which measures are directed towards saving life and protecting property and dealing with the immediate damage caused by the disaster

Answer 1

Emergency response

Question 2

Common issues during emergency

Answer 2

• Lack of time
• Enormous needs
• So many actors complex coordination

Question 3

Humanitarian charter and minimum standards for humanitarian response

Answer 3

SPHERE standards

Question 4

Initiated in 1997 by NGOs and Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to develop a set of universal minimum standards in core areas of humanitarian response

Answer 4

SPHERE project

Question 5

2 core beliefs of the SPHERE project

Answer 5

• Right to live with dignity
• Alleviate human suffering

Question 6

Provides the ethical and legal backdrop founded on the principle of humanity and humanitarian imperative

Answer 6

Humanitarian charter

Question 7

Humanitarian charter:

Answer 7

• The right to live with dignity
• The right to receive humanitarian assistance
• The right to protection and security

Question 8

Are essential process standards shared by all sectors; describes the processes and approaches that needs to be taken for an effective humanitarian response

Answer 8

Core standards

Question 9

Core standards:

Answer 9

• People-centered humanitarian response
• Coordination and collaboration
• Assessment
• Design and response
• Performance, transparency and learning
• Aid worker performance

Question 10

Four critical needs during emergency:

Answer 10

• Minimum standards in food security and nutrition
• Water supply, sanitation, and hygiene promotion
• Shelter, settlement, and non-food items
• Health action

Question 11

Food

Answer 11

500 grams/person/day (2,100 kcal)

Question 12

Water

Answer 12

7.5 L/person/day (15 liters/day/person)

Water tap: 1: 80-100 persons
150 meters away from users

Question 13

Space

Answer 13

30 square meters/person

Question 14

Shelter

Answer 14

3.5 square meters/person

Question 15

Latrine

Answer 15

1 unit/20 persons

30 meters min. distance to shelter/water source
100 meters max. distance to users

Question 16

Bathing soap

Answer 16

250 gams/person/month

Question 16

Laundry soap

Answer 16

200 g/person/month

Question 17

Menstrual hygiene materials

Answer 17

One/person

Question 18

Health center

Answer 18

1 per camp

Question 19

Referral hospital

Answer 19

1 per camp

Question 20

Distribution center

Answer 20

1 per camp

Question 21

Garbage pit

Answer 21

1 per camp, 15 meters max. distance from users

Question 22

Three phases of evacuation center management:

Answer 22

• Preparedness/planning
• During evacuation & evacuation center managemet
• Post-assessment/clearning of evacuation center

Question 23

Overall tasks of EC managers

Answer 23

• Registration and profiling
• Identification of gaps
• Advocacy on IDP needs
• Information/communication management
• Ensuring IDP/community participation
• Monitoring and reporting (Displacement tracking matrix)

Question 24

Mga dapat isaalang-alang sa pagbubuo ng plano ng paglikas

Answer 24

* Tukuyin - kailan dapat lumikas, mga ligtas na lugar, ruta at alternatibong daanan, pick-up points * Maglagay - senyales sa daan/road signs * Maghanda - sasakyan sa paglikas, kagamitan at supply sa evacuation center, listahan ng mga lilikas * Iayos - kinakailangang kagamitan at suplay * Gumawa - mga probisyon

Question 25

Critical things to look at in managing evacuation centers:

Answer 25

* Temporary shelter * Food * Access to water * Sanitation * Health services * Protection, security threat * Education opportunities * Unaccompanied children, sick, etc. * Documentation * Formation of EC management committee * Accountability

Question 26

Characteristics of most evacuation centers

Answer 26

Overcrowded, poor facilities, vulnerability to diseases

Question 27

Common effects of poor water source

Answer 27

Gastro-entiritis, cholera, typhoid, Hepa A

Question 28

Poor sanitation

Answer 28

Scabies

Question 29

Overcrowding

Answer 29

Measles, meningitis, TB, cough, malaria

Question 30

Food shortage

Answer 30

Deficiency in vitamins, iron, etc.

Question 31

Poor shelter

Answer 31

Pneumonia

Question 32

Poor lighting/walling

Answer 32

Rape, security issues

Question 33

Registration of IDPs

Answer 33

* Master listing of IDP families * Room/test assignments * Private partitions/bed kits * Tent numbering * Issuance of DAFAC (Disaster Family Access Card)

Question 34

Documentation/reporting

Answer 34

* Master list/profile * DAFAC * Regular reports * Acknowledgement receipts * Daily inventory * Inventory of supples and equipment * Relief distribution receiving forms * Directory * Minutes * Narrative and statistical disaster monitoring report

Question 35

Management structure:

Answer 35

* Coordinator * Assistant coordinator * Logistics officers * Information officers * Others

Question 36

Committees

Answer 36

* Water, sanitation and hygiene * Survey and master listing * Relief distribution * Health * Security and public safety * Grievance/complaints * Recreation/sports * Drills and exercise