Engineers and Humanitarian Emergencies
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• Experience in Africa • What engineers can offer • How to work with international
organisations • What it’s like being deployed by RedR
Australia • What you can do to help • Engineering roles are in demand • Experience in other countries
Lessons learnt:
• With UNWFP in Liberia • With UNWFP in Somalia • With UNHCR in South Lebanon • In the Maldives after the tsunami • With UNHCR in Ingushetia & Chechnya
Somalia – not an easy place to manage projects
build warehousing
refurbish wharves
repair roads
repair bridges
dredge harbours
secure compounds
• Define the task • Collect data needed • Locate resources • Execute the work
Liberia – a bit easier to manage projects
NGO’s Host governments Government ministries other UN agencies other organisations
Working with other organisations
On mission with RedR Australia
My minimum equipment list: unlocked telephone GPS GPS data logger EPIRB torch camera for copying first aid emergency cash & emergency water
FOR A SUCCESSFUL DEPLOYMENT:
• Effortless technical competence • Make good decisions from incomplete
information • Lead from behind • Compromise, as parties will have mutually
exclusive needs • Keep sight of a shifting target • Stay optimistic