Country Context Review

Country context information is essential to the “fine-tuning” of simulation objectives, tasks, and memo traffic. Key information needs include:

• Simulation participants: Their positions, roles in agency or partner emergency preparedness and response (EPR) and key knowledge, skills or attitudes (KSA) capacity-building needs that the country office hopes to address through training – including the simulation. Also any previous EPR training that participants have had.

• Hazard inventory: Most frequent causes of disasters in the country: sudden-onset disasters, slow-onset disasters, complex emergencies, etc. Areas and population groups most likely affected.

• Summary of agency and partner programs in the country. Of particular importance are ongoing programs likely to be affected by disaster.