SURGE

Ability of  “individuals, communities and organizations” in crises to rapidly and effectively respond to the needs of affected populations through improved local preparedness, collaborative effort and the scaling up and down of response

Surge Emergency Response Team (SERT)

National Humanitarian Network (NHN) and ActionAid Pakistan joined hands under Transforming Surge Capacity Project to provide human resource for emergency response by developing a national roster. Roster is focused on rapid deployment of technical experts for CAT-II emergency l on “Assessment, Food Security, Shelter, Wash, Protection and Logistic sectors”.

Objectives

  1. Ensuring right people on the right place in CAT II emergency during surge
  2. Enhancement of Surge Capacity of roster members at national level
  3. Enhancing local surge capacity through promotion of collaborative and localized surge

What is SERT Roster Management?

Roster is a pool of candidates who have already been vetted as viable candidates through the application process and who are ready for immediate selection for emergency response.

The basic aim of the SERT roster is enlisting the right people, ensuring they receive proper training, maintaining availability for deployment, retention – they continue to constitute a key tool for providing additional human resources when surge is needed.

Once you are included in a roster, you will be regularly contacted by e-mail to either confirm your continued interest in upcoming job openings, or you may choose to temporarily put on hold or permanently withdraw your roster candidature.

Recruitment and Selection Process of SERT Members

Following process is followed for recruitment and selection of Surge Emergency Response Team (SERT).

  • Step 1: Job Advertisement
  • Step 2: Long listing
  • Step 3: Competency Self-Assessment
  • Step 4: Panel interviews
  • Step 5: Notification email to selected candidates.
  • Step 6: Reference Check and Finalization of SERT membership

Maintenance of the Roster Membership

  • Roster members will renew their membership on a roster on six monthly basis
  • After every 6 months roster members will be asked by the lead agency to re-confirm their availability. If a roster member is unavailable within a certain timeline (e. g. 6 months), or is simply not responding, he/she should be excluded from the roster.

Deployment Protocol

 

National Humanitarian Network Pakistan

A volunteer network, founded in 2010 in result of interactive dialogue in National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) “to act as an independent and vibrant voice to engage with stakeholders throughout Pakistan for promotion of humanitarian values by influencing policies and building capacities to ensure right based humanitarian response”. 172 humanitarian organizations are members of NHN from across Pakistan and it is open for all national and local organizations engaged in humanitarian assistance or disaster management advocacy.  NHN focus on “Effective and Accountable Humanitarian Governance” – mainly in Response and Disaster Preparedness through four major areas i.e. “Coordination/networking, Advocacy, Capacity Building and Information Management”.

NHN is a key network in Pakistan which is well connected with various stakeholders and demonstrated its effectiveness to do proper advocacy and lobbying for access, space and principled response. NHN supports stakeholders in collecting and timely sharing of critical information for preparedness and response as its members are spread across Pakistan and even in hard to reach areas.

Contact Us

  Address: Apartment No. 306, Imperial Square, Khalid Bin Waleed Road, E-11/2 Markaz, Islamabad, Pakistan
  Phone No: 0092-51-2305260-61

  Email ID   info@nhnpakistan.org        

  Website  www.nhnpakistan.org