Save the Children's Preparedness Planning
Save the Children's emergency preparedness planning focuses at the country-level working with respective Country Offices to improve emergency response by organizing and strengthening their capacity to deliver timely and effective relief and assistance. To ensure Save the Children's operational priorities are met, Country Office emergency preparedness aims to put plans, resources and mechanisms in place to ensure those affected receive adequate assistance in a timely manner.
Essential to good preparedness planning includes having pre-existing resources in place and having established mechanisms that can rapidly identify the most vulnerable populations, and distribute relief supplies when needed. Save the Children works to provide readily available propositioned stockpiles of relief items such as food, medicines, blankets, water purification and oral re-hydration tablets, along with essential household items (cooking utensils), and emergency shelter materials (plastic sheeting) that can be immediately deployed in the aftermath of a disaster to save lives. However, it is crucial that emergency responses reflect the particular needs of the community, especially the most vulnerable. Save the Children aims to provide an effective and timely response, ensuring just not a rapid response but by identifying and providing what is most needed, when it is needed.
Read about Preparedness Efforts in Bangladesh and Indonesia
