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The Mobility in Emergency Response (MER) Innovation Meeting took place Jan 17th and 18th, 2020. Emergency response professionals from NGOs, governments, military and private sector have been discussing required innovations on mobility and flexibility of disaster response teams.
The results of the meeting are summarized in a report:
The Mobility in Emergency Response (MER) Innovation Meeting is an open, international meeting with emergency response professionals discussing required innovations on mobility and flexibility of disaster response teams. These innovations improve the effectiveness of the response teams, especially when deploying to hard-to-reach areas. Innovations include physical products, software packages or collaboration policies and should be affordable to most response teams.
The MER Innovation Meeting will be held 17th and 18th January 2020 in Vaassen, the Netherlands.
Most teams use equipment and policies from the civil protection, military or regular camping sectors. While these are generally great tools, sometimes they are simply not good enough to respond adequately to disaster situations. Therefore we propose to focus more on innovation, creating the equipment that allows teams to:
Every professional team involved with disaster response, for instance medical, search & rescue, wash, goods distribution or other relevant emergency focus. Especially innovation managers and head logisticians might benefit from the MER Innovation Meeting.
Welcome
Introduction round
what we can learn from an academic view on Emergency Response. (Amy Hughes, HCRI, time to be confirmed, by skype)
operating over a 100 small aircraft and dedicated to help isolated people, MAF knows everything about the challenges of mobility in disaster areas. (John Woodberry, Global Disaster Response Manager)
from the point of view of a government (Hans van den Hoogen, Sr Humanitarian Advisor, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
which phases, topics and special situations are important in a deployment and how do they interact?
Identifying existing bottlenecks
Culture and social time!
Recap on identifying bottlenecks
Clustering bottlenecks
Setting goals for solutions
challenges in writing and tensions between high quality care and the mobility of teams. (Emma Brunette, time to be confirmed, by skype)
lessons learned from a Military Engineering mode of operation. (103rd Military Engineering Company, Royal Netherlands Army. Speaker and time to be confirmed)
in dynamic workshops
Prioritizing
Creating a roadmap together
and closing
As Senior Humanitarian Advisor in the Department for Stability and Humanitarian Aid, Hans is heavily involved with the support of humanitarian actors
We welcome any co-operations in organizing this meeting. So far, these people and organisations are participating and/or contributing:
Hans van den Hoogen, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
As Senior Humanitarian Advisor of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hans is heavily involved with the support of humanitarian actors. He will be talking about the collaboration between governments with ngo’s and its impact on innovation.
John Woodberry, MAF
John is the Global Disaster Response Manager of MAF, an NGO operating over 100 aircraft and dedicated to help the most remote people on earth. They are experts on the limitations of mobility and challenges of hard-to-reach areas.
Ian Norton, Respond Global, former WHO
Ian has been head of the WHO Emergency Medical Team (EMT) initiative for 6 years. The initiative has grown to involve 130 countries and respond to mutiple emergencies at National, Regional and Global level.
Roles involved the creation and implementation of the Quality Assurance system of International EMTs, the implementation of capacity building for national and regional EMTs across every WHO region and the coordination of response by EMTs to the West African Ebola Outbreak, Nepal Earthquake, Outbreaks of Diphtheria among the Rohingya refugee camps and the Humanitarian trauma care pathways during conflict in Mosul and Syria.
103 Constructiecompagnie, Royal Netherlands Army
The 103rd Dutch Military Engineering Company responded to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in September 2019 with 550 people. One of it’s officers on the Advance team will share about their experiences and lessons learned.
Amy Hughes, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute
Dr Amy Hughes MBE – Clinical Academic Lecturer in Emergency Response.
Amy will be speaking on emergency response from an academic view, outlining trends and bigger pictures. She will attend the meeting by skype.
Amy is heavily involved in the development of the UK Internaional Emergency Trauma Register and training of its clinicians…
Stephanie van Drunen, Dutch Coalition for Humanitarian Innovation
DCHI is the platform where different sectors meet to realise more impact and less costs in the humanitarian sector through innovation.
Willem van Burgsteden, ZOA Netherlands
ZOA is involved in emergency disaster response and is interested in new innovations to improve service provision to the beneficiaries.
Corinna Schäfer, Cadus
As a humanitarian NGO active in emergency response, we regularly encounter challenges in the field that the community has not yet found a solution for. In our Crisis Response Makerspace we work on finding solutions and innovate to improve humanitarian aid. The conference will be useful for exchanging ideas with other NGOs how to tackle challenges, and to hear about their needs in the field, thereby gathering further inspiration for future innovations. We are hoping to go home with new ideas for solutions, and also with a clearer idea of challenges that other emergency NGOs are struggling with.
Rebekka Bodemer, RescueNet
Rebekka is the European Coordinator of RescueNet and will be attending the Innovation Meeting. She is looking for improvements in the areas of Medication & Cold chain, Clinical equipment, Wash and Power.
Pieter D. van Baardewijk
After his Developmental Psychology study at Utrecht University Pieter primarily invested most of his time in music. Dividing his attention between writing, performing and teaching music. Soon he joined the Flying Seagull Project, an international circus and theater company that works with underprivileged children from minority groups, over the last four years this has mostly been in refugee camps in Greece, France and Lebanon…
Several Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs)
Bringing their immense experiences on what works great and where innovation is required with a clinical background, several EMTs are planning to join the MER Innovation Meeting. Whenever possible we will disclose their names and representatives!
Hospitainer
Gert Jan Pieterse
Gert Jan is always seeking to develop challenging products that make living easier and more beautiful, with a strong contribution to a fair and sustainable world. He is especially passionate about disaster response which he expresses in volunteering in the rapid response relief team RescueNet…