Nongovernmental resources to support disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
OBJECTIVE
Although recent emergencies or disasters have underscored the vital role of nongovernmental (NGO) resources, they remain not well understood or leveraged. We intended to develop an assets framework that identifies relevant NGO resources for disaster preparedness and response that can be used to assess their availability at state and local levels.


METHODS
We conducted a search of peer-reviewed publications to identify existing asset frameworks, and reviewed policy documents and gray literature to identify roles of NGOs in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. A standardized data abstraction form was used to organize the results by NGO sector.


RESULTS
We organized NGO assets into 5 categories: competencies, money, infrastructure or equipment, services, relationships, and data for each of the 11 sectors designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the 2011 preparedness capabilities.


CONCLUSIONS
Our findings showed that the capacity of each sector to capture data on each asset type needs strengthening so that data can be merged for just-in-time analysis to indicate where additional relief is needed.
RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
Joie D
JD
Acosta
Anita
A
Chandra
Jeanne S
JS
Ringel
D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution; D009938:Organizations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States