CM Gaps Explorer

1. Faciliate expressing the practitioners The means to accomplish one or more tasks under specific conditions.

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   needs and Gaps.
2. Faciliate the understanding of these needs by

   A solution is a means that contributes to a crisis management function. A solution is either one or more processes or one or more tools with related procedures.

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   owners, so that they can develop and advertise the innovative Solutions resolving them.
3. Faciliate discovering of the innovative Solutions addressing the

   Crisis and Disaster Management

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   needs and Gaps.

Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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management in the recent COVID-19 pandemics has been impeded by lack of coherence between decision making in different agencies and at different levels.

Recent COVID-19

Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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has demonstrated that EU states have so far failed to endorse a solid pandemics/epidemics communication methodology, develop clear guidelines and enforce use of these guidelines in crisis situations. In addition, the communication with the public was also inadequate - on the one hand impeding the use of information provided by the public in crisis manageent and on the other hand causing confusion and even panic among the population at first and leading to erosion of trust in authorities, thus facilitating the rise of rumours, conspiracy theories, civil unrests and even riots. 

Mis- and disinformation can have adverse effects on

Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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management and even cause cascading Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.

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(e.g. civil disobedience and even insurrections)

Recent COVID-19

Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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has demonstrated that EU states have so far failed to endorse a solid pandemics/epidemics communication methodology, develop clear guidelines and enforce use of these guidelines in crisis situations.

As a result, the communication was often haphazard, with different organizations and authorities occasionally disagreeing in their assessments of the situation and recommendations. 

Danger rating index is an important real time indicator for the fire fighters. It sums up constant (fuels, topography) and variable (weather) factors that affect the initiation, spread and difficulty of control, and subsequent fire damage of wildfires on an area in a single number that can be easily visualised and used for early alerting.

In order to have a complete understanding of the way that the

Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization.
Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation.
Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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manages to create an environment in which the participants reach their

Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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objectives, it is necessary to gather their feedback.

Data managment runs almost throughout the whole

Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization.
Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation.
Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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cycle, from preparation, to conduct, analysis and reporting, even if evaluators are not heavily involved during the planning phase. It is useful to provide some guidance to evaluators for the content of data collection, usually this is developed in two pillars:

Process of estimating the effectiveness, efficiency, utility and relevance of a service or facility.

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of players performance and Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization. Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation. Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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conduct. There are different methods for data collection: through evaluators input, feedback from participants, recording, possibly input from observers, interviews, debriefs. To decide if and how to use observers for data collection, exercise managers may decide differently based on who the observers are. Info from observers may support evaluators, depending on the design of the exercise.
Mainly raw data, not information, that is available.

Registering as many as possible facts in real time, possibly in field (FSX,TTX), improves the impartiality of collected observations due to avoiding opportunity for interpretation from the observers’ sides. Moreover, it helps to distribute

Method of data collection in which the situation of interest is watched and the relevant facts, actions and behaviours are recorded.

DRIVER+ Note 1: Please consider also the notes in the original definition.

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collection activities in both phases: during and after the

Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization.
Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation.
Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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, providing logistical advantage. Lastly, the observations are available in the

Process of estimating the effectiveness, efficiency, utility and relevance of a service or facility.

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database earlier, giving the opportunity to be used for introducing the corrections after each stage of the Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization. Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation. Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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, so the information use also for exercise conducting purposes. 

• Evaluators have different background, expertise - does an holistic certification make sense? Distinguish between different types of exercises and parts of exercises - minimum basic requirements
• Guarantees certain level of

  Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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  of evaluators
• Set-up some kind of basic information that evaluators should get at the beginning of any exercise
• All evaluators should have some common knowledge on cross-cutting topics e.g. communication
• Standardises level of evaluators in certified issue i.e. knowledge,

  Ability to perform a task or activity with a specific intended outcome acquired through education, training, experience or other means.

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• Documentation that will support Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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  and certification of evaluators is supposed to assist both evaluators and exercise managers that will have the same expectations and preparations for an exercise

• very useful information - adds on value, pillar for

  Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization.
  Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation.
  Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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  success
• framework information to understand certain actions - to reach certain goals!
• misconceptions of certain actions without knowing the general goals
• without framework information, uncertainty rises and degrades the quality of

  Process of estimating the effectiveness, efficiency, utility and relevance of a service or facility.

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• group dynamics and leadership processes, framework information helps to define this structures
• social interactions have to be addressed (communication, etc.)
• to know competent people during

  Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
   

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  (organizational social structure of all involved people has to be focused on to better understand certain processes)
• for "context" - available information for decision making (real vs Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization. Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation. Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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  ) and motivation/understanding amongst the

  Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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  audience

When CBRN-events are simulated and casualties

Prerequisite identified as necessary to achieve an intended outcome, implied or stated.

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to be decontaminated, the sucess of the decontamination has to be validated. Due to invisible substances (e.g. gases) and their high hazard potential, it poses a challenge to evaluators in exercises.