NCDP has been awarded multiple U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) training grants. These programs focus on mass care community sheltering and relocation assistance, pandemic preparedness and response, post-disaster housing recovery, and Tribal Nations readiness and resilience.
NCDP’s research seeks to create a knowledge base that will guide government, foundations, and others as they work to build—or rebuild—resilient communities.
The Financial Instruments Division (FI) helps people overcome climate risk through financial tools like index insurance and index-based disaster risk management.
The most significant pandemic in recent memory, COVID-19, crippled health systems and economies. NCDP provided expert commentary and guidance.
Read NCDP’s ongoing expert commentary to address the research, practice, and policy implications of large-scale disasters, both domestically and globally.
ENHANCE system readiness for disasters; EDUCATE and train the workforce to build resilience from catastrophic events; FOSTER community preparedness and engagement; UNDERSTAND population vulnerability; and ANALYZE strategies to improve disaster recovery.
Since NCDP’s founding in 2003, NCDP has provided education and training to the workforce for more than 100,000 learners through web-based, instructor-led, virtual, and hybrid training.
NCDP conducts impact-oriented multi-disciplinary research to inform the readiness of governmental and non-governmental systems, articulate the complexities of post-disaster recovery, demonstrate the power of community engagement, and quantify the risks of human vulnerability.
The practice of emergency preparedness and response requires planning and skills in many kinds of emergency preparedness capabilities and skills. At NCDP, we are focused on the analysis and understanding of the beliefs, guiding principles, and broad courses of action and policies to achieve better outcomes following disasters.
NCDP has developed tools and resources to help aid planners, policymakers, individuals and families, and public/private institutions prepare for and respond to disasters to make our communities more resilient.
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