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Emergency Response and Disaster Readiness (CERC)

Ready before the crisis: contingent emergency response plans, fast procurement and payments, and recovery that builds back better.

The problem we solve

When a disaster strikes, money exists (contingent emergency response components, catastrophe drawdown options) but it often moves slowly: the emergency manual is not ready, procurement and payment procedures are untested and responsibilities are unclear.

Our method, phase by phase

Phase 1 of 5

Readiness check

  • Review contingent financing available and its triggers
  • Test the emergency response manual against a scenario
  • Map roles across ministries and agencies

Deliverable: Readiness assessment

Tick what your organisation already has: we show you where to start.

Try the instruments live

The same instruments we use with clients. Try them with your own organisation; your answers stay in your browser until you ask for the result.

What you receive

  • An emergency response manual ready to use
  • Pre-agreed procedures, contracts and roles
  • A tested team after a simulation
  • Faster, accountable response when it matters

How we keep quality

  • Methods and tools agreed with you at inception, then applied openly
  • Every finding linked to its evidence
  • Senior review of every deliverable before it reaches you
  • Knowledge transfer: your team keeps the tools and routines

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What does Risalat's Emergency Response and Disaster Readiness (CERC) approach involve?

Ready before the crisis: contingent emergency response plans, fast procurement and payments, and recovery that builds back better. It runs in 5 phases: Readiness check, Manual and procedures, Simulation, Activation support, Recovery and lessons. Each phase ends with an agreed deliverable.

What problem does it solve?

When a disaster strikes, money exists (contingent emergency response components, catastrophe drawdown options) but it often moves slowly: the emergency manual is not ready, procurement and payment procedures are untested and responsibilities are unclear.

What does the client receive?

An emergency response manual ready to use; Pre-agreed procedures, contracts and roles; A tested team after a simulation; Faster, accountable response when it matters.

Can we try the method before engaging Risalat?

Yes. The instruments on this page are free and online: Emergency Response Readiness Blueprint, Project Health Check, Risk Register and Heat Map Builder, Humanitarian and Emergency Logistics Practice Test. Your answers stay in your browser until you ask for a result. Evaluation committees can also ask for a live walkthrough.

How do we know where to start?

Tick what your organisation already has in the method above: the page shows the first phase that needs work and what the assignment would cover. The diagnostic gives a scored baseline in about ten minutes.

Can it be delivered as training, advisory support or both?

Both. The same method can be delivered as an advisory assignment, as an in-house or open training programme for the team, or as a combination with coaching while the team applies it to its own work.