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In 1997, the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) hosted a session, during the mid-year conference, on the need for standards and assessments within emergency management. The result from the combined efforts of national emergency management agencies and other stakeholder organizations was the Emergency Management Assessment Program, or EMAP. EMAP builds on standards and assessment work by various organizations, adding requirements for documentation and verification that neither standards nor self-assessment alone can provide. |
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EMAP's backbone is agreed-upon national standards called, the Emergency Management Standard, developed with input from emergency managers and state and local government officials. These standards consist of:
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Many organizations collaborated on and supported the development of EMAP, including: The National Emergency Management Association (NEMA), International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), U.S. Department of Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness & Response Directorate (EPR/FEMA), U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Transportation, National Governors Association, National League of Cities, Council of State Governments (CSG), National Conference of State Legislatures, National Association of Counties, individual states, and others.






