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Monday, September 3, 2012

Govt Grants Within the US Disaster Prevention and Relief Sector

By Michael Saunders


According to the Disaster Survival Resources website, there has been about 640 tragic events (floods, tsunamis, typhoons, earthquakes, cyclones, etc.) that have occurred in the United States since 1980 to 2010. Cumulatively, these catastrophic instances have taken away the lives of 12, 366 people.

For this reason, the issue of disaster prevention and relief consolidation is quite much essential to any government, most especially the United States Government.

In order to properly address disaster prevention and relief consolidation concerns, the United States government has established a great deal of agencies that are primarily responsible for attending to those issues.

First up, is the United States Department of Homeland Security, more frequently known as the DHS. The DHS was generally established to protect the United States of America from to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural catastrophes.

The DHS works in the civilian sphere and employs around 240,000 workers, with job responsibilities that go from aviation and border security to emergency response, from cybersecurity analyst to chemical facility inspector. The primary mission of the agency is pretty straight-forward, which is to secure the nation from all of the many threats that faces it.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID), on the other hand, is the country's primary agency responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. The USAID works primarily in relief consolidation initiatives by building grant projects that are aimed at funding and boosting post-disaster activities across the world.

the USAID also attempts to work towards disaster prevention by establishing grant programs such as the "Good Practices" Manual Providing Guidance for Reducing the Risk of Floods Using Natural-Resource Based Techniques Programme, which generally intends to introduce the practice and the science of using natural methods of flood mitigation on a community or municipality level.

The US Government also has the HHS, or the US Department of Health and Human Services, which is massively answerable for safeguarding the health of the American people by providing human services and grant projects such as the Strengthening Emergency Care Delivery in the US Healthcare System through Health Information and Promotion Program.

The grant program, one of many programs from the HHS, was established to enable grantees to enter into a cooperative agreement with Project Hope organizers (the publisher of Health Affairs) to hopefully come up with an issue that will identify, explore and propose policy options for developing, fortifying and preparing a regionalized, responsible and coordinated system of emergency care.




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