Recovery Management Courses
Who should participate in these programs?
The recovery management programs listed below are structured to provide for participants from the emergency management industry, particularly senior and middle level managers.
Course content
The recovery management programs encompass the National Recovery Management Principles:
“Successful recovery relies on understanding the context, recognising complexity, using community-led approaches, ensuring coordination of all activities, employing effective communication; and acknowledging and building capacity.”
Courses offered
The courses that make up the recovery management programs offered by the Emergency Management Australia (EMA) Institute are listed below.
Introduction to Recovery Management
(2 days)
This program provides a broad overview of disaster recovery, emphasising key principles and concepts which underpin all aspects of recovery planning, management and service delivery. A number of key themes, which are an integral part of all aspects of the recovery process will be identified and discussed.
These themes include the:
- post disaster community context in which recovery activity is undertaken
- importance of a community development approach in initiating and promoting sustainable individual and community recovery
- importance of information throughout the recovery process
In addition, a broad overview will be provided of key aspects of recovery planning, management and service delivery.
Community-based Recovery Management
(2 days)
This program addresses key aspects of community based-recovery management and enables emergency managers to apply a community development framework to disaster recovery situations. The emphasis is on greater understanding of disaster affected individuals and communities, and approaches to supporting their recovery.
Key themes to be addressed include:
- recovery based social processes
- techniques to identify community makeup
- a detailed consideration of community development and its importance in supporting community based recovery.
Evacuation and recovery centres and services
(3 days)
This program aims to provide an overview of the variety of operational and service delivery centres and other types of services which may be appropriate in the overall emergency management context. The centres can be broadly divided into two categories:
- centres which provide the setting for the management and coordination of services
- centres in which disaster affected persons are supported in meeting either immediate basic needs or ongoing recovery needs.
Other types of service delivery approaches include outreach and case management. Strategies for effectively engaging with disaster affected communities will be explored as a means of determining the type of services appropriate to meet individual and community needs resulting from a specific disaster. The content includes consideration of the range of practical issues required in the establishment and ongoing service delivery, such as community engagement and consultation, planning, coordination, transition to mainstream services, physical and human resource issues and information and communication.