Climate change and the current pandemic have changed the
environment for all communities globally.
Professionals in every endeavor, every critical infrastructure field
needs to be involved and understand how to address the system of addressing
disasters\crisis\emergency management, the impacts of climate, and the
inter-relationship within the community, business, agriculture, energy,
transportation, water & food security, telecommunications, and more.
The whole community must be a part of the change
process.
Check to see if your local college or university are on the
FEMA EMI (Emergency Management Institute) college list below.
Ask yourself, “Why aren’t they on the list?”
If not, “business as usual”. A never-ending cycle. We’ll be back where we are now in five, ten,
twenty, or even thirty years.
BEMA International
 HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM (HiEd) NATIONAL
TRAINING AND EDUCATION • NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS DIRECTORATE The
College List,
located at https://training.fema.gov/hiedu/collegelist/
, outlines programs at
all levels of study in emergency management (EM), homeland security (HS) and
related fields |
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“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos or community.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Where Are We Going From Here: Chaos or Community’. |
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(Image:
Rose Kouwenhoven/IMF)
The IMF's Ceyla
Pazarbasioglu and Uma
Ramakrishnan laid out in a new blog this week how a proposed IMF Resilience and
Sustainability Trust (RST) will help low-income and vulnerable middle-income
countries build resilience to balance of payment shocks and ensure a
sustainable recovery.
The $50-billion trust fund would also be a place where countries
could channel their Special Drawing Rights to more vulnerable nations.
--Key design features: About
three quarters of the IMF's membership would be eligible for RST financing.
This would include all low-income countries, all developing and vulnerable
small states, and all middle-income countries with gross national per-capita
income of less than roughly $12,000 per year.
The RST aims to address macro-critical longer-term
structural challenges that entail significant macroeconomic risks to member
countries’ resilience and sustainability, including climate change, pandemic
preparedness, and digitalization. Access to RST financing would be
determined case by case, based on the strength of reforms and debt
sustainability considerations, and is expected to be capped at 150 percent of IMF quota or
SDR 1 billion, whichever is smaller.
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NACCHO has published a number of
new resources for MRC units in recent months. These include:
The NACCHO team shared details
about each of these new resources during the January MRC Well Check Webinar.
Watch the Listserv for a link to the recording. |
http://websites.umich.edu/~thecore/doc/Friedman.pdf
