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.  

Transforming Surge Response Capacity: (TSCP)

Transforming Surge Capacity under START Network aims to improve the capacity of humanitarian agencies to scale up resources for emergency response – getting the right people to the right places, doing the right things in the shortest time possible. It aims to pilot and build evidence of ways of providing surge capacity that are more collaborative, locally focused, and which engage better with other stakeholders such as partner organizations and the private sector.

Purpose of the Roster:

The main purpose of the shared roster is to coordinate and collaborate for timely response through rapid deployment of technical experts/specialists for CAT-II emergency.

Specific Objectives:

The roster will work around three 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 l
  3. Enhancing local surge capacity through promotion of collaborative and localized surge

Technical Sectors to be Included in the Roster

Keeping in view the immediate and on-going needs during any emergency and disaster response, it is agreed and decided by the core group that the persons having the following technical skills and expertise will be enrolled on the Roster in the following sectors. 

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

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  Phone No: 0092-51-2305260-61

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