City Office of Emergency Management Creation

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City Office of Emergency Management Creation

  • Projrct iniciator:

    Kharkiv City Council

  • Finance model:

    Co-financed from city budget, IFI Open for strategic partnerships for the project implementation. Various co-financing models available.

The Office of Emergency Management will include:

  • an operator’s control hall for information transfer to response services, crises and communication halls;
  • specially equipped offices for representatives of the Commission for technogenic, environmental safety and emergency situations, the State Emergency Service, the National Police, the Ambulance Service, etc.;
  • city services: municipal, state and private services ensuringthe city life sustenance, the Service for traffic and management of the city's transport infrastructure;
  • halls for conducting staff trainings and education of the representatives from city emergency services on prevention and elimination of all kinds of emergency situations that will arise in the city.

Expected Results:

The Office of Emergency Management will perform the following functions and tasks:

  • call distribution and information transfer to response services;
  • monitoring, analytics and forecasting of situations in the city, modeling of management decisions;
  • management of automated systems;
  • management in crisis situations;
  • planning, coordination and control of the adopted decisions implementation, evaluation of the results thereof;
  • development and implementation of situational and behavioral action plans for all emergency response services;
  • centralized resolution of control and management tasks, both in ordinary and in crisis situations, timely determination of emergencies, actions control on their elimination and adoption of operational decisions;
  • centralized notification of population via a single urban automated system, systematic trainings for the population on the rules of fire and technogenic safety, actions in case of various accidents, events and emergencies.

Current Status:

  • A detailed concept of the City Office of Emergency is developed.
  • In cooperation with foreign consultants, a land plot for the Office has been selected and allocated for construction.
  • Preliminary design and estimate documentation has been developed, the final Construction Project is being prepared for examination submission.
  • Partner is being selected for development of the Office's IT infrastructure.