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International Cooperation During Disasters
Discuss how leaders of nations and the international community can strengthen the framework for international cooperation and collaboration in response to disasters
In the contemporary world, there seem be increasing trends of the global weather events or scenarios. This makes it critical for governments to focus significantly on activities that can provide a lasting solution to the problem at hand. This would involve majoring in activities that aid disaster management within the nation. In order to tackle the prospective disasters facing the globe, it is essential to have measures in place to enable organizations to be ready in case of any hit. This notion calls for crucial involvement of leaders of the nations and international communities to strengthen the framework for international cooperation and collaboration in response to disasters.
The first approach by the leaders of the nation to strengthen the framework for international cooperation and collaboration in response to disasters is commissioning for training of distinct units to deal with disasters...
Facilitating training to would allow citizens to acquire first hand information on how to curb disasters. Training should be in the form of educating the public on the need and importance to actions in relation to disaster reduction. Leaders can contribute to training though availing funds for disaster management programs. The budgetary allocation of funds to the disaster management programs would facilitate the activities of the entity executing the tasks within the nation and across the globe (Murphy, 2009).
Leaders should also support Non-Governmental Programs aiming to manage the overwhelming disasters in the contemporary world. Governments should work in collaboration with the institutions aiming to reduce the effects of disasters thus strengthening the fight in relation to management of disasters. This collaboration might be in the form of communication or awareness programs. Mobilization of the communities on appropriate measures to manage disasters when would aid efforts of the government in dealing with security against disasters. Leaders also have the role of facilitating the formulation of…
References
Asimakopoulou, E. (2010). Advanced ICTs for disaster management and threat detection:
Collaborative and distributed frameworks. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
Murphy, R. (2009). Leadership in disaster: Learning for a future with global climate change.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
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