16
November 2011
Integral
is pleased to announce the launch of its’ next stage of deeper
collaboration in disasters. The endorsement of its’ Disaster
Management Processes will enable all sixteen Integral Members to
follow the agreed procedures when an emergency situation arises
anywhere in the world.
After
nine months of detailed consultation, drafting & redrafting work,
the tools & processes are now complete. The Integral Board, made
up of the CEOs/Presidents of all Members, unanimously endorsed the
new procedures at their Oct 2011 meeting. They signed a Commitment
pro-forma in which they agreed to develop implementation plans to
ensure the procedures are internally accepted, & agreeing to be
mutually accountable to other Members for carrying this out.
Laurie
Cook, the Chair of the Integral Board, says: "We sincerely
believe that we now have the basis for working together in a way that
will bring additional resources and take collaborative relief work to
a level of efficiency and creativity that will serve those in
desperate need so much better than we have ever been able to do in
the past."
The
development of the Integral DM process has been a collaborative one,
with a Project Manager and Process Developer working with the
Secretariat, and receiving input from the Integral Board, Marketing
and Programme groups. Laurie Cook says about this collaborative
approach: “The project
document in its final form is therefore an amazingly thorough one.”
Integral’s
DM processes will go live for any disaster after 1st April 2012.
Wayne
de Jong,
Director
Disaster Response & Rehabilitation, Integral Member Christian
Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC), echoes Cook’s sentiment
about the quality of the final project document:
“As
I share the final DM project documents with our staff and partner
organizations they, without exception, are extremely impressed with
the end result. I know that we as Members contributed to that end
result, but you [as Integral] pulled it all together in a clear and
professional manner to define a practical process which I believe
will serve us well as Members for many years to come, and enable us
to – together – have a much greater impact in terms of responding
to disasters around the world.”
One
of the benefits of Integral’s DM process is that Integral
is now uniquely placed to not just respond to the world's larger
disasters, but also to the smaller more forgotten crises that may not
make the news headlines.
More
Information:
Integral
has 16 Members who work
in 88 countries & currently fund more than 850 projects:
CEDAR
Fund -
Hong Kong
Christian
Reformed World Relief Committee
– Canada & USA
Integra
-
Slovakia
MAP
International
- USA
Mission
East -
Denmark
Norwegian
Mission Alliance
- Norway
SEL
France
- France
Strømme
Foundation -
Norway
TEAR
Australia
- Australia
Tearfund
-
Belgium
Tear-
Netherlands
TEAR
Fund
- New Zealand
Tear
Fund
- Switzerland
Tearfund
-
UK
World
Relief
- Canada
World
Relief -
USA
Integral
Members have previously collaborated in:
2004:
Indonesia Tsunami,
Sri
Lanka Tsunami
2006:
Indonesia Earthquake
2007:
Bangladesh
Floods, Zimbabwe Humanitarian Crisis
2008:
Kenya
Unrest,
China
Earthquake,
Myanmar
Cyclone, Democratic Republic of Congo, East Africa Food Crisis,
India floods
2009:
Sri Lanka (internally displaced people), Pakistan floods, Asian
disasters
2010:
Haiti earthquake, Sahel food crisis, Indonesia earthquake, Guatemala
Hurricane, Pakistan floods
2011:
Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, North Korea, South Sudan, Japan earthquake,
Middle East, East Africa food crisis
See
website for more info:
www.integralalliance.org
Contacts:
Fiona
Boshoff, Director of Integral
f.boshoff@integralalliance.org
Sarah
Fordham, Communications Officer
s.fordham@integralalliance.org
