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Planning of municipality specialized on solving of emergency measures
UHROVÁ, Šárka
Today's world is sensitive and fragile. With the growing number of emergencies caused by natural causes, there is a growing need to effectively prevent such events and minimize their impact on lives, health, property and the environment. These problems are solved in the area of crisis management, which is at excellent level in the Czech Republic. Crisis management is firmly anchored in the Czech legislation, especially in so-called emergency legislation, and described in specialized publications. It is a system of crisis management bodies as defined by Act No. 240/2000 Coll., On Crisis Management, who have roles and responsibilities to secure the necessary protection. This thesis describes the system in detail together with another integral part of crisis management contingency planning. The product of crisis planning is the crisis documentation which serves to the crisis management bodies for solving of emergency situations, i.e. large-scale disasters during which a state of emergency was declared. There is one controversial point in this area which this work deals with whether the municipality as a legal entity should prepare an emergency preparedness plan for facilities that can be used to carry out emergency measures. This point is included in the objective of the thesis, i.e. to evaluate the current planning documentation of the municipality aimed at solving emergency measures. It is covered also by the research question whether municipalities prepare plans as recommended by the Ministry of Interior or by the respective municipality with extended authority. It was found out that municipalities keep crisis documentation in cases of risk that their administrative areas get endangered by an emergency. Contingency plans are elaborated in fewer cases. With exceptions, if municipalities have in their possession a facility which could be used in carrying out emergency measures, no emergency preparedness plan is usually prepared for such premises. Based on these findings, the thesis comes with a plan which could be used by municipalities to deal with emergencies or crisis situations and buildings usable in the fulfilment of crisis measures of accommodation and provision of food. The plan consists of three parts: The 1st part would contain basic information about the town (number of residents, size of the area, water areas, information on Crisis Staff, etc.), the 2nd part would be divided into two other parts. Part A would address emergencies and crisis situations in the form of a list of tasks that the municipality would have to fulfil, in chronological order from the threat detection to damage documenting. This part would be organized into three sections. The first section would cover the tasks that the municipality would have to fulfil before an emergency occurs, the second section would include practices for events that already occurred and the third section would contain tasks needed after its ending. Part A would contain a description of cooperation with the regional Fire Brigade and bodies of emergency management according to applicable laws. Part B would apply to buildings owned by the municipality, which could be used to carry out crisis measures of accommodation and provision of food. It would contain a list of these premises, instructions on when and how the facility can be used in state of emergency, and information about the needed number of people and the amount of stock, etc., including how to get them. The 3rd part of the plan would consist of supplements. This documentation would be beneficial for municipalities, as they would have accurate and well-arranged materials based on which they could proceed. It would actually be two plans in one, securing easier handling and organization for the municipalities. The documentation should be prepared even in cases when there is no immediate threat to the town because of its geographic position.
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The role and options of nongovernmental nonprofit organizations in dealing with crisis situations and a system of cooperation between these organizations and emergency management.
NĚMEC, Petr
I chose the topic of my diploma thesis ?Role and Compass and Potential of Non-government Non-profit Organisations when Solving Crisis Situations and System of Co-operation between them and Bodies of Crisis Management? because I believe that non-profit organisations play a key role at providing help to people in distress. I pay high attention to the non-profit organisations which, within their compass, try to help people in distress. They attempt to mitigate the consequences of emergencies or crisis situations, which can affect any human being at any time. It was only when I started studying at the University of South Bohemia and when working for the police that I found out that the non-profit organisations which operate in the Czech Republic depend mainly on the grant policy, sponsorship and human approach of the people who are employed in these organisations or support them in whatever way. Having chosen the topic of my diploma thesis, I have tried to summarize and submit as much information for the readers of this paper to absorb as many data as possible on the non-profit organisations which work within the South-Bohemian region and are available when preparing and solving emergencies and crisis situations. I have made an attempt to describe their role, compass and employment at emergencies. The other objective of my thesis is to describe their communication within the Emergency Services and with the bodies of Crisis Management. The objective of my diploma thesis is to analyse the activities of non-government non-profit organisations when dealing with crisis situations and emergencies. Based on qualitative research, this goal was met. Nowadays, in the time of economic crises both in the Czech Republic and in the world, I must state that to secure funding, material and human resources, which would enable their workers to perform the activities given by their mission, represents for the non-profit organisations a superhuman task. The hypothesis that the system of co-operation of the bodies of Crisis Management and non-profit organisations is sufficient has been confirmed. The hypothesis that the activities of non-profit organisations when dealing with crisis situations and emergencies represent an important factor has been confirmed as well.
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