Investing in Disaster Management Capabilities versus Pre-positioning Inventory: A New Approach to Disaster Preparedness

2828 combined scenarios to identify the best mix of

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, professional response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from, the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

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strategies for different levels of available funding.System dynamicsValidation: validity of internal structure of the model, behavioral accuracy of the model, sensitivity analysis

Evaluate the effects of investing in

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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management capabilities through system dynamics modeling.

Delivery performancecosts

Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives.

DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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-based:No preparednessPre-positioning of inventoryInvestment in

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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management capabilitiesSystems dynamics model; single Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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, single country, and single organization

Empirical data, primary data collected, publicly available secondary data from websites and media reports

How does pre-positioning inventory and investing in DMC improve the delivery of relief supplies during the immediate

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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Actions taken during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce health impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the people affected.

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, in comparison to an import

Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives.

DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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without

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, professional response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from, the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

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? What is the potential of pre- Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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investment in DMC, as compared to pre-positioning, for reducing the costs of the preparedness phase?What is the optimal mix of pre- positioning inventory and investing in DMC?

Several practitioners mentioned that custom clearance lead times of up to four weeks when no previous relationships were established with customs.Respondents also mentioned that once DMC have been develeoped, customs clearance lead time are usually between 1 and 5 days.

We find that pre-positioning inventory produces positive results for the beneficiaries, but at extremely high costs.Investing in

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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management capabilities is an interesting alternative, as it allows lead time reductions of up to 67% (18days) compared to a

Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives.

DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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without

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, professional response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from, the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

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, at significantly lower costs than pre-positioning inventory.However, the results of our mixed scenarios revealed that better results can always be achieved with a combination of pre-positioning inventory and investing in DMC.Recommendations:On the basis of our findings, we recommend that donors finance more preparedness activities in countries prone to disasters.

By comparing a

Pre-planned storyline that drives an exercise, as well as the stimuli used to achieve exercise project performance objectives.

DRIVER+ note 1: In the context of DRIVER+ scenarios are defined for Trials not for exercises.

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without

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, professional response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from, the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

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with one in which supplies have been pre-positioned in the country and one in which investments in

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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management capabilities (DMC) have been made, we demonstrate the strong improvement potential of Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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preparedness activities.