Working with Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)
The UW-DMC served as an advisor to the Harvard University International Relief and Development Project (IRDP) in the preparation and dissemination of case histories detailing international relief projects which had successfully integrated longer term development strategies into short term relief work. The results of the project were published in Rising from the Ashes: Development Strategies in Times of Disaster (link exits this site).The UW-DMC has also provided educational assistance to training programs for the Technikon (link exits this site) and Cranfield Disaster Management Center (link exits this site) (tripartite agreement to assist in the development and implementation of Disaster Management Certificate Courses for distance learning in South Africa), for the Lutheran World Federation (link exits this site) (workshop in Rwanda on the fundamentals of disaster and refugee emergency management for national staff) and for CARE (link exits this site) (Bangladesh Training Assessment Project for national NGOs).
In 1997, the UW-DMC began collaboration with Church World Service (link exits this site) in the development of a curriculum of materials for training local staff in disaster preparedness and response. Since December 1997, UW-DMC training facilitators have presented customized workshops in Pakistan, Rwanda, Madagascar, Jordan, Poland, Honduras, Indonesia and Macedonia. Click here (link exits this site) for more information on this global project in emergency management capacity building.
At the invitation of the Jordan Red Crescent Society, the UW-DMC designed and presented a comprehensive emergency managers' workshop in Jordan in September 1998. Red Crescent and Red Cross Society (link exits this site) participants from seven countries attended the ten-day workshop.
