Rapid Response and Assessment Team

The concept of a Rapid Response and Assessment Team was an identified need during the Emergency Response Management Training in May 2007 and participated in by Christian Aid partners. The aim was to set up a system and a means for emergency response assistance among CA partners.

The Rapid Response and Assessment Team seeks to assist partners in need during occurrences of disasters by providing rapid assessment assistance and enabling partnerships and capacities for setting up and actual conduct of relief operations.

Some CA partners saw value of the rapid response and assessment teams at the local level and used the knowledge they gained to help develop local rapid response and assessment teams or quick response teams.

This system of emergency assistance among partners proved to be most useful during the Typhoon Reming (Bicol region), Typhoon Fengshen (Visayas and MIMAROPA – Sibuyan Island) disasters and Humanitarian Crisis in Mindanao. Partners from other regions came to the assistance of organizations who needed help particularly in enhancing assessments and setting up relief operations

Featured Photo: Maila Quiring of Coastal Core Sorsogon providing CARRAT assistance to LRC and Sibuyan Isle during the Typhoon Fengshen Emergency in Sibuyan Island, Romblon, Philippines.