Emergency Interagencies

In terms of enhancing disaster and emergency preparedness, response and recovery, it evaluates the efforts that are used interagency approaches, giving and overall scope of evaluations and strategies which would impact how sophisticated the evaluation process and evaluation approaches that are and how closely tied with physical scope of a disaster event itself. While enhancing a disaster, the evaluation strategy, in terms of program response, allows different organization that can choose to respond or coordinate disasters in response to an emergency. Solid evaluations work to effective emergency management practices through certain methods using accuracy, validity and reliability. According to Ritchie, L. A., & MacDonald, W. (2010), failure

to address these factors is most likely to result in evaluation that either worse or ultimately irrelevant. However, it is very important to recognize the context that includes social, political, economic, legal, environment, and technological factors because it influences the effectiveness of emergency management practices. Addressing these factors is more likely to result in effective evaluation practices.
Evaluation of disaster and emergency management, evaluates findings that can impact policy directly related to protecting and saving lives. The relief efforts have a direct impact on outcomes like the previous article such as social, demographics, cultural, political environmental and technological challenges. It has been proven that the most important focus on an evaluation is prescribing certain methods. According to Ritchie & MacDonald (2010) “the most important evaluation approaches are developmental, formative or real-time evaluation & summative”. It is vital that evaluation focus on the type of evaluation methods pertaining to preparedness, response, and recovery. Applying evaluation practices in the context of emergencies and disasters can be difficult and challenging. There has been a push for international movement towards a systemwide evaluation efforts in which would allow direct communication, allowing shared experiences among international and national organization engaging in disasters and emergency evaluations.
Meeting these challenges can be very difficult because preparedness is a continuous process because condition change all the time. I believe that these evaluation findings influence policy directly related to methodological approaches, which should drive all evaluation findings. Due to the complexity of multiple different disasters, it is key that we use a multifaced evaluation system which can be used international and nationally, evaluating activities that incorporate, disaster planning, emergency program operation.