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Program Description: The
Master Exercise Practitioner Program is a series of two classroom courses
(E0132 and E0133) focusing on advanced program management, exercise design
and evaluation practices in each phase of the Homeland Security Exercise and
Evaluation Program (HSEEP). A MEPP Capstone exercise project is
required within one (1) year after the completion of E0133.
MEPP candidates work within a
collaborative environment on exercise design challenges and establish a
network of peers. Candidates are assigned to an Exercise Planning Team
where they are to demonstrate their expertise at all levels of exercise
design and conduct through in-class teach backs and the individual MEPP
Capstone Project.
MEPP is designed for mid-level
exercise practitioners with a minimum of three
(3) years’ experience in an
Emergency Management (EM) exercise design. Participants refine and
practice skills critical to performing the phases of the HSEEP cycle, such as
exercise program management, Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) writing and
evaluation data analysis.
Candidates apply the key
learning concepts from the MEPP curriculum relative to their organizations
and their own jurisdictional environments.
Emergency Management
Institute Mission
To support the Department of
Homeland Security and FEMA’s goals by improving the competencies of the U.S.
officials in Emergency Management at all levels of government to prepare for,
protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the potential effects
of all types of disasters and emergencies on the American people. Read more...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
2017. FEMA EMI Master Exercise Prac Program (MEPP) Courses
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Webinar: September 6, 2017. Health Information Systems Strengthening Resource Center
Health Information Systems Strengthening Resource Center: Centralizing Evidence
Join MEASURE Evaluation for a one-hour webinar on the Health Information Systems Strengthening Resource Center. The webinar will take place September 6 at 10am EDT and will be led by MEASURE Evaluation’s Heidi Reynolds, Shannon Salentine, Eva Silvestre, and Liz Millar.
Health information systems (HIS) strengthening is an ongoing and continuous process. MEASURE Evaluation’s Health Information Systems Strengthening Resource Center has been developed to serve as a central hub for the exploration of what works to strengthen HIS, a repository for evidence about how strengthened HIS improves health outcomes, and a learning space for health professionals to share and exchange information on HIS strengthening.
During this webinar, we will explore how our work to understand what works to strengthen HIS is framed by MEASURE Evaluation’s HIS Strengthening Model and explore HIS Country Profile Indicators, the HIS Assessment Tool Database, and other resources available through the website.
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2017. FEMA Should Disallow $2.04 Billion Approved for New Orleans Infrastructure Repairs
The latest DHS OIG report is available on our website.
FEMA Should Disallow $2.04 Billion Approved for New
Orleans Infrastructure Repairs
FEMA should not have awarded the City and S&W Board the
initial $785 million, or the additional $1.25 billion to complete the repairs
to damaged infrastructure, because the damages were not eligible for Federal
disaster assistance funding. Even though FEMA attributed the damages to the
water distribution system directly to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, we
concluded that FEMA did not have sufficient documentation to support its
decision. In fact, evidence shows that the infrastructure was old and in poor
condition even before the hurricanes.
Eligibility for FEMA funding requires that damages be the direct
result of the declared disaster, and it is the applicant’s responsibility to
show that the damages are disaster-related. Read Report No. OIG 17-97-D
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August 2017. CAWST Sustainable Sanitation Alliance. Survey.
Défilez vers le bas pour le texte en
français
Desplácese hacia abajo para ver el texto en español
Dear Charles,
CAWST and the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance invite you to be a change-maker in the sanitation sector. Five minutes of your time and expertise will help us improve the sanitation sector's ability to deliver on the goal of "water and sanitation for all."
We want to know more about your needs for access to information, and your ideas about how to improve collaboration and information exchange.
If you have questions or need assistance, email us
at: SanitationSurvey@cawst.org
This survey is part of a larger SuSanA project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
To take the survey Offline:
Devenez un acteur du changement dans le domaine de l'assainissement avec CAWST et l'Alliance pour l'Assainissement Durable ! Nous vous invitons à allouer cinq minutes de votre temps et votre expertise pour aider le secteur de l'assainissement à atteindre l'objectif de "l'eau et l'assainissement pour tous".
Nous souhaiterions connaître plus précisément vos besoins en termes d'accès à l'information, et vos idées pour améliorer la collaboration et l'échange d'informations.
Cette enquête fait partie d'un projet plus vaste mené par SuSanA et financé par la Fondation Bill and Melinda Gates.
Pour répondre à l'enquête hors ligne :
CAWST y la Alianza de Saneamiento Sostenible lo le invita a ser un agente de cambio en el sector del saneamiento. Cinco minutos de su tiempo y experiencia nos ayudarán a mejorar la capacidad del sector de saneamiento para cumplir la meta de "agua y saneamiento para todos".
Queremos saber más sobre sus necesidades de acceso a la información y sus ideas sobre cómo mejorar la colaboración y el intercambio de información.
Esta encuesta es parte de un proyecto más grande de SuSanA financiado por la Fundación Bill y Melinda Gates
Para completar la encuesta sin conexión:
Desplácese hacia abajo para ver el texto en español
Dear Charles,
CAWST and the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance invite you to be a change-maker in the sanitation sector. Five minutes of your time and expertise will help us improve the sanitation sector's ability to deliver on the goal of "water and sanitation for all."
We want to know more about your needs for access to information, and your ideas about how to improve collaboration and information exchange.
Scroll down
for details on taking the Survey Offline
Please
complete the survey by Friday, 11th August 2017.
This survey is part of a larger SuSanA project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
To take the survey Offline:
- Click here
to download the survey to your browser in English
- Click Start Your Survey
to begin.
- Each time you click
Next, the survey saves automatically so you can return later to finish
- Click Upload Completed
Survey when you have internet access.
Devenez un acteur du changement dans le domaine de l'assainissement avec CAWST et l'Alliance pour l'Assainissement Durable ! Nous vous invitons à allouer cinq minutes de votre temps et votre expertise pour aider le secteur de l'assainissement à atteindre l'objectif de "l'eau et l'assainissement pour tous".
Nous souhaiterions connaître plus précisément vos besoins en termes d'accès à l'information, et vos idées pour améliorer la collaboration et l'échange d'informations.
Vous pouvez
changer la langue du l'enquête en cliquant sur l'option en haut de page
Faites défiler vers le bas pour répondre à l'enquête hors ligne
Faites défiler vers le bas pour répondre à l'enquête hors ligne
Veuillez
répondre à l'enquête avant le vendredi 11 août 2017.
Adressez-nous vos questions et vos demandes d'aide
par courriel à l'adresse : SanitationSurvey@cawst.org.Cette enquête fait partie d'un projet plus vaste mené par SuSanA et financé par la Fondation Bill and Melinda Gates.
Pour répondre à l'enquête hors ligne :
- Cliquez ici
pour télécharger l'enquête en français dans votre navigateur.
- Cliquez sur Démarrer
l'enquête pour commencer.
- Chaque fois que vous cliquez
sur le bouton Suivant, l'enquête est enregistrée automatiquement ;
vous pouvez ainsi la reprendre ultérieurement.
- Cliquez sur Charger
l'enquête terminée quand vous aurez accès à internet.
CAWST y la Alianza de Saneamiento Sostenible lo le invita a ser un agente de cambio en el sector del saneamiento. Cinco minutos de su tiempo y experiencia nos ayudarán a mejorar la capacidad del sector de saneamiento para cumplir la meta de "agua y saneamiento para todos".
Queremos saber más sobre sus necesidades de acceso a la información y sus ideas sobre cómo mejorar la colaboración y el intercambio de información.
Puede
cambiar el idioma de la encuesta utilizando la barra en la parte superior de la
página.
Desplácese hacia abajo para obtener detalles sobre cómo completar la encuesta sin conexión
Desplácese hacia abajo para obtener detalles sobre cómo completar la encuesta sin conexión
Por favor
complete la encuesta antes del 11 de agosto de 2017.
Si tiene preguntas o necesita ayuda, envÃe un
correo electrónico a: SanitationSurvey@cawst.orgEsta encuesta es parte de un proyecto más grande de SuSanA financiado por la Fundación Bill y Melinda Gates
Para completar la encuesta sin conexión:
- Haga clic aquÃ
para descargar la encuesta a su navegador en español
- Haga clic en Inicie su
encuesta para comenzar
- Cada vez que haga clic
en Siguiente, la encuesta se guarda automáticamente para que pueda volver
más tarde para terminar
- Haga clic en Subir
encuesta completada cuando tenga acceso a internet
Friday, July 28, 2017
2017. Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters
A new book
“Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters” with Routledge as
complimentary to the online course “Public Health Principles in Disaster and
Medical Humanitarian Response”, which is available for purchase at the
publisher’s website here: https://www.routledge.com/Public-Health-Humanitarian-Responses-to-Natural-Disasters/Chan/p/book/9781138953703
This book
will be a very useful reference book for studying the course now and refreshing
your study in the future.
A free
preview of the book can be accessed here
until the end of August 2017 and do share it with colleagues who may be
interested.
Best
wishes,
CCOUC
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
July 2017. Is a More Equitable, Fairer Farm Bill Possible?
While
Capitol Hill begins another round of Farm Bill negotiations, grassroots leaders
gathered to discuss the people, places, and issues that have too often been
shut out of funding.
By
Leah Douglas | Farm Bill, FARMING, Food and Farm Labor
05.15.17
The
clock is already ticking on the 2018 Farm Bill. Hearings on crop insurance,
farm credit, nutrition programs, dairy policy, and other titles are being
regularly held before the House Agriculture Committee. The witnesses in those
hearings include members of trade associations, credit agencies, and energy
companies—the stakeholders whose priorities are typically most represented in
Farm Bill debates and in the final bill itself.
But
this spring, across town from Capitol Hill, American University hosted a 2018
Farm Bill summit, co-sponsored by the Berkeley Food Institute, with a different
set of topics on the agenda. Grassroots leaders from across the food system
gathered to discuss policy, politics, and potential—and specifically which
issues should be included in this next farm bill, with a focus on those that
are traditionally left out of the bill.
Attendees
and presenters—who included a range of policy experts and community leaders in
agricultural communities—discussed a wide range of topics, including rural
development, antitrust policy, the experiences of farmworkers, and the
obstacles still faced by minority farmers. Much of the discussion centered on
funding—or lack thereof—for these and other matters of most interest to
small-scale producers and rural communities. Indeed, rural development only
received 0.02 percent of Farm Bill funding in 2014.
Instead,
the Farm Bill typically prioritizes the needs of large-scale, conventional
growers. Those priorities are reflected in whose testimony is heard on the
Hill, and in continued expansion of subsidies, crop insurance, and credit
programs that benefit the wealthiest and largest farmers.
The
goal of this summit, then, according to moderator Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, an
assistant professor at American University, was “to broaden the conversation on
[the Farm Bill],” to bring new voices into the conversation, and “to inform it,
so as to reform it, or even to transform it.”
The
tensions between small- and large-scale farmers are only exacerbated by the
fact that rural voters are increasingly disillusioned with President Donald
Trump, whom they helped to elect, and that many environmental and conservation
programs may face dramatic cuts in the President’s coming budget. Since the
summit, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue,
was confirmed, and President Trump released the Presidential Executive Order on
Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America. But there’s no
indication yet that either of these advancements will directly benefit
small-scale farmers.
Combating
Corporate Consolidation
Among
the key priorities the group identified is food industry consolidation. While
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has addressed this issue through some
policy measures, it’s never taken center stage. And it hasn’t been a priority
in how the bill’s funds are allocated, a trend that will likely continue this
year.
Over
the past several decades, consolidation has been the cornerstone of Big Ag. A
steady stream of mergers and acquisitions has resulted in more than 80 percent
of beef slaughter, 50 percent of chicken processing, and 45 percent of beer
production being handled by as few as four large companies.
“There
should be a branch of the USDA that talks about competition,” said Patty
Lovera, assistant director of Food & Water Watch, during her presentation.
“That’s not really anyone’s job” right now.
The
closest the USDA has gotten to explicitly addressing consolidation is through
the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), a program
meant to enforce the Packers & Stockyards Act (PSA). The PSA, passed in
1921, aims to uphold competitive markets in the livestock sector, but food
industry trade groups lobbied Congress to defund GIPSA for several years.
GIPSA
finally managed to introduce some rulemaking in the midnight hours of the Obama
administration, but those rules—which would offer protections for chicken
farmers who contract with vertically integrated poultry processors—have been
repeatedly delayed under the Trump administration.
Lovera
wasn’t alone in considering the effects of economic concentration.
“Consolidation of the industry has had a huge impact on rural communities,”
said Ben Burkett, director of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives and
the president of the National Family Farm Coalition. There used to be a
proliferation of mom-and-pop seed stores, he said, but Monsanto drove them out
of business. Continued consolidation in the seed sector has meant that prices
have risen and farmers are increasingly tied to one of just three or four
companies in the sector.
Support
for Female Farmers and Farmers of Color
Another
hot topic at the summit was how to use the Farm Bill to offer more support to
minority farmers. Dr. Joe Leonard, who headed the USDA’s Office of Civil Rights
during the Obama administration, lauded his department for making a
“generation’s worth of change” in eight years. But he acknowledged that USDA
still has a long way to go in addressing historical and ongoing
under-representation of minority farmers in its programs. For instance, he
said, people of color on average only apply to around seven USDA programs, when
the Department offers over 200.
Rudy
Arredondo, president of the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade
Association, agreed that USDA could do more to support farmers of color. “The
hoops we have to go through are just incredible,” he said, speaking to the
experience of his members, who are mostly small-scale producers and face
obstacles including accessing grant programs and land.
Support
for minority farmers has appeared in the Farm Bill before. The 2008 Farm Bill
included provisions that settled a $1.25 billion class-action lawsuit between
USDA and Black farmers. And although the USDA does manage programs tailored to
recruiting and assisting woman and minority farmers, including the Outreach and
Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers program, the 2014
Farm Bill cut that program’s funding in half, to $10 million.
Outside
the Farm Bill, progress is happening on this front: Earlier this month,
Democrats in California’s state Assembly introduced the Farmer Equity Act,
which would give farmers of color more support from the state’s Department of
Food and Agriculture.
Improving
Farmworker Wages and Working Conditions
With
the current climate of fear and anti-immigrant policies as a backdrop,
farmworker wages and working conditions were another important point of
discussion at the summit.
“It
would be a folly not to think about labor issues” alongside other Farm Bill issues,
said Jessica Felix-Romero, director of communications for Farmworker Justice.
“The Farm Bill can create the [solutions] to address what farmworkers face.”
And
yet there is scant mention of farmworkers in the bill. There have been attempts
to write provisions that could improve on-farm working conditions, such as the
Charter for a Healthy Farm Bill, written by the Institute of Agriculture and
Trade Policy for the 2014 Farm Bill. But the final bill ultimately reduced
funding for projects that assist farmworkers.
It’s
still too early to say whether the 2018 Farm Bill will better reflect the needs
of farmworkers, minority farmers, or communities struggling to stay afloat in a
consolidated farm economy. Yet the urgency remains to push forward for a more
inclusive bill. “For those of us who work in rural America on the ground, this
is not just theoretical,” said Rudy Arredondo.
Leonard
echoed that sentiment, making it clear that in his view, the stakes are high
for the next Farm Bill to include better policy for all farmers. “If we don’t
succeed, the bread basket of the world closes,” he said, “and the world doesn’t
succeed.”
National Latino
Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association
Washington, DC
20016
Office: (202)
628-8833
Fax No.: (202)
393-1816
Email: latinofarmers@live.com
Twitter: @NLFRTA
Website: www.NLFRTA.org