The activity of the International Emergency Management Organization is focused on small-emergencies , which normally are out of the reach of the big actors of the international community . As clarified through a dialogue between the Organization and several prominent chief administrative Officers of UN Agencies, Intergovernmental Institution, NGOs and the Academia, the international community normally reacts massively to emergencies when their existence is sufficiently advertised through the media and divulgated throughout the public.
Emergencies not so wide as the Tsunami was, are often left aside by the international community, and what is the end of minor or “forgotten” emergencies often represents a problem.
Sometimes they are left to local NGOs which, in emergency situation seem to be not “official” or “institutional” to raise the local Authority’s collaboration. The need of an intergovernmental entity as the IEMO, focused on emergency prevention and response with a particular view on forgotten or left aside emergencies was therefore very urgent on the global scenario

The lines of the Institutional activity are the following:
I) EMERGENCY AWARENESS
II) EMERGENCY PREVENTION
III) EMERGENCY REPONSE
IV) EDUCATION ON EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT



The International emergency management organization actively works, as displayed in the synopsis of Activity, both at its early stages as international Committee (1991-2005) both in its present actual (2006-2007) stage, to promote awareness in respect of the fundamental concepts of Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, Mitigation, Response and Post Emergency rehabilitation.
The Organization believes that there is no possibility of avoiding emergencies without awareness on their causes and effects and the Activity of Awareness is therefore divulgated through meetings and events held by the Organization with a numerous series of institutional actors:
At Cabinet Level (Members of Cabinet and Parliament of Vulnerable Countries)
At International Organization Level (Secretariats of emergency related intergovernmental entities)
At Ministry level (Ministries of Home and Foreign Affairs, Ministries of Infrastructure and Health),
At Official Representation level (Embassies, Consulates-General, Diplomatic Missions abroad)
At Non Governmental level (Research Panels and Boards of associated NGO’s)
At Civil Society Level (Community leaders, Local Authorities, Civil Society Organizations)
The Awareness campaign of the Organization brought, inter alia, to the formation of spread consensus on the role of Emergency Prevention, to be recognized as essential part of the emergency management process, so integrating the previous concept of rescue (ex-post) –exclusively focused on providing essentially the means of survival after the occurrence of a disaster– with a new parameters for reinforcing the structural capability of a vulnerable system in order to avoid the actual appearance of a given emergency in a complex scenario



The issue of Emergency Prevention is the predominant activity of the International Emergency Management Organization. Prevention means essentially avoiding the occurrence of emergencies and comprises a series of steps which depend essentially on the characteristics of the scenario involved. The expression Emergency Prevention is especially associated with man-made or complex emergencies. The Organization has developed an Early Warning System, capable to incorporate into a tri-dimensional model a number of factors causing recurrent emergencies displaying their occurrence with an effective capacity of predictability. This applies especially for man-made
(socio-political) emergencies but is normally integrated with natural/environmental parameters (mixed emergencies)
A series of emergency Prevention analysis has
Prevention includes the following steps :
Socio-political and Economic analysis (quantitative and qualitative)
Data Collection (through the IEMO network of allied NGOs and expert/ commissioners),
Statistic elaboration (provided with the use of qualified technologies for multi-factor data process)



When the Early warning and the preventive diplomacy are not sufficient, or when emergencies are too unpredictable (like the 2004/2005 Tsunami), the Organization conducts its own emergency operations, mainly through associated organizations , which act under the umbrella of the Organization. These are a numerous group of professional and civil organizations which provide relief under the coordination of the Department of Operations (DOP) which actually performs the functions of linkage between the Organization’s Partners.
Operations in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda have been successfully put in place by the DOP delivering as of 2007 more than a total of 1200 metric tons of humanitarian aid, of various type.



Since the beginning of its operations the International emergency Management Organization has provided education and permanent tutorship in the field of emergency management:
At University Level (Lectures and Research in European and African Universities)
At High School Level (addressed to teachers, students and respective families)
At School Level (addressed to school teachers with regard to behaviour in case of emergency)
At Community Level (associations, civil society coalitions, civil defence departmental units)
Education is an essential part of emergency prevention, especially because of the need of knowing the actual causes of emergencies and the most adequate preventive actions towards them.
A focal point for special emergency related educational activities is being set up in Morocco and Spain, in cooperation with local authorities and prominent groups of schools
Since 1997 the increasing number of Seminars at University of Milan, Rome and Brussels led to an increasing number of research thesis on the field of emergency prevention and management.




1993 (March) Special Meeting on emergency prevention at ECHO (European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department), Brussels, Belgium

1993 (June) Special Technical Meeting on emergency prevention with VOICE (ONG relief response) Brussels, Belgium

1994 (April) Special Technical Meeting on emergency prevention with Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome, Italy

1994 (May) Special Meeting on emergency prevention with Congo Republic Consulate General in Milan, Italy

1994 (August) Special Meeting on emergency management with Foreign Representations of Angola, Liberia, Senegal in Municipal Auditorium, Roma, Italy

1995 (April ) Special Technical Meeting on emergency prevention with Directorate of Cooperation, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Rome, Italy

1996 (May) Special Technical Meeting on disaster relief with Holy See Permanent Representative, His Em. Card. Ersilio Tonini, in Bologna , Italy

1997 (September) Special Technical Meeting on emergency management at Embassy Democratic Republic of Congo to Holy See,

1998 (December) Special Meeting on man-made and natural disaster prevention with Embassy of Democratic Republic of Congo, Roma

1999, (May) Special Seminar in early Warning Systems, Auditorium Faculty of International Law University of Milan

1999 (July) Special High Level Meeting on food emergency and management prevention with Government of Botswana, Gaborone

1999 (August) Special High Level meeting on emergency prevention /institutional reinforcement at Office of Prime Minister of Sao Tomé, Sao Tomé and Principe

1999 (September) Special technical Meeting on emergency prevention, disaster management and healthcare treatment with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Zimbabwe, Harare.

1999 (September) Special Meeting on disaster mitigation at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Gabon, Libreville.

1999 (December) Special High Level Meeting on emergency management at Office of Deputy Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea, Malabo.


2000, (April) Seminar on the scaled assessment of emergency Prevention in Sub-saharan Africa University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

2000 (June) Special Meeting on emergency rescue and rehabilitation with National Commissioner for Reconciliation Resettlement and Reconstruction (NCRRR) of Sierra Leone, Freetown

2000 (December) Special Technical meeting on recurrent emergency prevention and emergency rescue, with Government of Dem Rep of Congo, Kinshasa,

2001 (February) Special High Level Meeting on emergency prevention and refugee rehabilitation with Government of Guinea, Conakry, Guinea

2001 (March) Special Technical on emergency management Meeting with RDC Embassy in Rome,

2001 (June) Seminar on the effect of emergencies on civilian populations, University of Roma III

2002 (October) Seminar on the Effect of Mixed Emergencies in Africa, University of Roma III

2002 (October) Special High Level Meeting on emergency management with the Office of European Commissioner in charge for Humanitarian Aid , Brussels.

2002 (October) Special High Level Meeting on emergency management with COMESA
(Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Secretariat, Lusaka, Zambia)

2003 (May) Special Meeting on Emergency Prevention at University of Lugano (LUdES)

2003 (June) Special High Level on emergency prevention Meeting parallel FAO Conference with Government Ministers of Benin, Burundi, Central African Rep, Rome- Italy

2003 ( September) Special High level Meeting on emergency management with United Nations Geneva Office and International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva CH

2003 (June) Special High Level Meeting on emergency prevention with the Board of Governors of the Inter -American Development Bank

2004 (April) Special Seminar on Emergency Evaluation and Assessment State University of Milan

2004 (June) Special technical Meeting on disaster management at Embassy of Central African in Rome, Italy

2005 (February) Special Meeting on the Effects of Protracted Emergencies in Sub-saharan Areas University of Bujumbura, Burundi,

2005 (May) Educational Symposium on the Attenuation of the Effects of Tsunami on vulnerable population, University of San Paulo, Brazil,

2005 (October) Special technical Meeting on Prevention of Urgencies in Horn Of Africa at COMESA Secretariat, Lusaka, Zambia

2005 (April) Special Meeting on Somali Republic Situation and Related emergency management actions, Nairoby, Kenya

2006 (April) Special High Level Meting on emergency response with Somalia Government in Nairoby, Kenya

2006, (June), Special Meeting on large-scale Emergency Evaluation, University of Brussels

2007 (February) Special High Level on emergency prevention and management with Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization, New Delhi, India

2007 (March ) Special Meeting on emergency response with Department of Emergencies, Baleari Islands, Spain

2008 (April) Roundtable on Crisis Assessment and Pace building Development Nairobi, Kenya

2008 (May) Seminar on Conflict Prevention and Preventive Diplomacy, Paris, France

2008 (June) Special High Level Meeting for Somalia Crisis, Rome, Italy

2008 (October) International Dialogue for Emergency Prevention and Crisis, Paris, France