IN PARTNERSHIP WITH


The International Emergency Management Organization (IEMO), intergovernmental organization established 14 April 2006 by Inter-Governmental Convention registered with the General Secretariat of the United Nations of the Unites Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), according to Art. 102 of the UN Charter, duly published on the Statement of Treaties and International Agreements registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat of the United Nations N. ST/LEG/SER.A/712, has the honour to announce the launch of the "IEMO Emergency Response Mission".

The "IEMO Emergency Response Mission" (IERM) performs according to Art. 1 and Art. 4 of the IEMO Establishment Inter-Governmental Convention of 14 April 2006, following the mandate of the Organization to operate for emergency prevention, preparedness, mitigation and recovery and has the goal to cover the humanitarian tasks intended to protect civil population against the dangers of hostilities or disasters and therefore acts under the protection of the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, according to Art.64(2) of Additional Protocol I, of 8 June 1977, as relevant International Organization engaged in Civil Defence and Emergency Assistance.

The "IEMO Emergency Response Mission" is deemed to act under the guidance of the IEMO Council, as well as in coordination and under the overall supervision of the IEMO Direction Secretariat as per Art. 4 of the IEMO Establishment Convention.

The President of IEMO is the Legal Authority representing the Mission and fulfils the necessary juridical and institutional obligations, deemed to contract the intervention of the Mission into the territory of a Hosting State.
In order to intervene into a given scenario the Mission must be requested, required or authorized by the competent relevant National Authorities of the Hosting State.

The "IEMO Emergency Response Mission" is composed modular units of fifty people each, so composed:

- 1 head of mission
- 2 deputy head of mission
- 4 medical staff
- 7 paramedical staff
- 6 security officers
- 4 search and rescue specialists
- 2 telecommunication officers
- 2 interpreters / intercultural mediators
- 2 marine rescue specialists
- 1 seismic engineering expert
- 1 NBC expert
- 2 de-mining officers
- 1 psychological assistant officer
- 1 educator
- 2 administrative clerks
- 12 logistical officers

The task force is deemed to stay in "stand by" between one operation and another and will be deployed according to the real necessity on the field so sending the adequate number necessary to positively contribute of a given emergency, for a maximum of 50 units.
The "IEMO Emergency Response Mission" acts principally in under-assisted emergencies, represented by those crisis which have been under-publicized or left aside by the international assistance, to avoid duplication and overlapping as far as large emergencies is concerned. This is particularly valuable for minor emergencies, in which the quantity of victims remains reasonably restricted into focused scenarios and where the action of the IEMO rescue mission can play a major difference, especially to contain unassisted emergencies and to avoid expending into large emergencies.

The Mission is deemed to operate for a different quality of emergencies but with a particular attention to humanitarian crisis, because of the specific preventive and mitigative attitude of the Organization, focused since its inception on solving, when not avoiding, complex emergencies with high humanitarian man-made impact. The mission in fact shall not focus principally on big natural multi-advertised disasters (earthquakes - tsunamis etc.) but rather on specific humanitarian neglected scenario in which hostilities sum up with natural constraints, in under-advertised and under-privileged scenario.

The Mission is funded trough public and private voluntary grants and contributions, deemed to reside into a Special Emergency Fund of revolving nature as per Art. 5 of the IEMO Establishment Convention, administered under the legal assessment of IEMO by a parity-level joint Assembly of the Donors, in which every donor will have its voice, so to maximize transparency and accountability.

In pursuing its mission the "IEMO Emergency Response Mission" is guided by the internationally-recognised Humanitarian Law principles of impartiality, neutrality, voluntary service, non-discrimination, independence and highest ethical commitment.