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Federal Emergency Management Agency: Readiness

FEMA's Readiness Program serves as the focal point for emergency management training; coordinates agency participation in emergency management exercises; provides readiness guidance and technical assistance to state and local organizations; and maintains the National Incident Management System and National Response Plan.

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program has a clear purpose, design and sound management practices.
  • Recent Hurricane Katrina After Action Reports by Congress, the White House, and DHS Inspector General are all being used to review and upgrade current processes and functions within the Readiness program. These recommendations are being utilized in the 2007 updates to the National Response Plan and National Incident Management System.
  • The Emergency Management Institute needs to understand its cost of student training to help improve efficiency. The National Incident Center program is a new program that has not existed long enough to demonstrate improved efficiencies or cost effectiveness.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Reviewing and updating the National Response Plan and National Incident Management System with Federal, State and local partners.
  • Establishing a new efficiency measure for "cost of student training hour" and develop a cost effectiveness model.
  • Developing comprehensive readiness and training plans once FEMA and the DHS Preparedness Directorate have completed the 2007 restructuring.

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