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1.3: Partner’s Capabilities

Ensure the capabilities of Federal, State, Territorial, Tribal, local, and other partners are in place to plan and prepare for disasters

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STRATEGIES a. Collaboratively establish standards for partners’ emergency management capabilities. b. Assess, or support assessment of, FEMA and its partners’ capabilities to deal with both catastrophic and non-catastrophic hazards. c. Enhance partners’ capabilities by building on existing relationships, partnerships, incentives, and regional mutual-aid programs. d. In coordination with partners, develop an integrated training, exercise, and evaluation program to develop FEMA and its partners’ capabilities. e. Organize, manage, and support exercises that target specific, high priority response and recovery operations. f. Develop a single, uniform, after-action reporting process to capture lessons learned. g. Concentrate FEMA’s resources in the areas most vulnerable to hazards. h. Effectively and conveniently administer grants to enhance partners’ incident response capabilities. i. Engage the private sector to contribute to disaster preparedness and loss reduction at the Federal, State, Territorial, Tribal, and local level.

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