Complex, humanitarian emergencies : III. Measures of effectiveness

Complex, humanitrian emergencie, lack a mechanism to coordinate, communicate, assess and evaluate response and outcome for the major participant (United Nations, International Committee of the Red Cross, nongovernmental organizations and military force). Success in these emergecies will depend on the ability to accomplish agreed upon measures of effectiveness (MOEs). A recent civil-military humanitarian exercive demostrated the ability of participants to develop consensus-driven MOEs. Measures of effectiveness have the potential to be a unifying disaster management tool and a partial solution to the communication and coordination problems inherent in these complex emergencies (AU)