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1-APELL Introduction- Gablehouse
1. Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies
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at Local Level
(APELL)
Introduction to the revised methodology of the
2nd Edition - 2014
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APELL
• Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies at Local Level: A
Process for Improving Community Preparedness for Responding to
Technological Accidents at the Local Level
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The APELL PROCESS
The APELL Process is a tool for communities to address the
technological and natural risks and hazards they face.
- APELL first increases the awareness of the community to the
local hazards.
- Community-wide response and preparedness capabilities are
assessed and matched to these risks in order to identify gaps.
- APELL then focuses on how the community addresses these
gaps and creates a continuous cycle of improvements.
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Goals and Objectives
• The main goal of the APELL Process is the development of
community emergency preparedness plans.
• The objective of this effort is to protect lives and the environment
by reducing the occurrence and the potential impacts of
technological accidents and preparing for natural hazard events.
• This is achieved by:
– A multi-stakeholder participatory approach involving industry, the
communities and local authorities is practiced so that all are involved.
– Raising awareness of the risks of technological accidents and natural
hazard events that potentially impact the community.
– Working through a structured 10-element process that creates a multi-stakeholder
dialogue.
5. Evaluate risks faced by the community
Review existing capabilities and plans - identify gaps
Establish priorities, act and establish metrics to demonstrate success
Phase II
Understanding Risk
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ELEMENT 1
Identify participants and their roles
ELEMENT 2
ELEMENT 3
ELEMENT 4
Create the “Vision of Success”
ELEMENT 5
ELEMENT 6
Create community preparedness plans
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The 10-Elements
Communicate, inform and educate community members throughout the process
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ELEMENT 9
Establish procedures for periodic testing, review and update plans
ELEMENT 7
Endorsement from competent authorities
ELEMENT 8
Implement plans through education and training
Phase I
Partnership building -
structure & leadership
Phase IV
Implementation,
Dissemination &
Testing
Phase V – Maintaining
APELL
ELEMENT 10
Continuous
Improvement -
Elements are
repeated to maintain,
adapt and improve
Phase III
Preparedness
Planning
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Lessons Learned from Experience
APELL is a coordinated planning process
that is adapted by the community to its
needs.
- We have learned that communities aggressively adapt the 10-
elements to improve community awareness and preparedness as
they perceive those needs.
- We have learned that it is useful in any situation requiring joint
planning by multiple stakeholders.
- We have learned that the same people and planning processes are
used regardless of whether the risk is a natural hazard or
technological accident.
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Revisions in the 2nd Edition
- Renewed emphasis on flexibility to fit community needs.
- An emphasis on community-wide preparedness planning rather
than only focusing on emergency response.
- Includes an element of accident prevention responsibility.
- Emphasizes coordination between emergency response agencies and
community preparedness efforts.
- Emphasizes that all community members are responsible.
- An emphasis on metrics and a process to demonstrate progress.
- A recognition that the process of improving community
preparedness applies equally to technological accidents, natural
hazard events and “Na-tech” scenarios.
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What Has Not Changed
• The objective of APELL is to protect lives and the environment by
reducing the occurrence and the potential impacts of technological
accidents and preparing for natural hazard events.
• This is achieved by:
– A multi-stakeholder participatory approach involving industry, the
communities and local authorities so that all are involved.
– Raising awareness of the risks of technological accidents and natural
hazard events that potentially impact the community.
– Working through a structured 10-step process that creates a multi-stakeholder
dialogue.
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Measuring Success
The Coordinating Group creates the “Vision of Success” for its
efforts:
•Using the APELL Process the community works to identify gaps in current
preparedness by matching the risks they face and the capabilities they
currently possess.
•The community then develops a shared “Vision of Success” through
discussion and planning on how to achieve their ideal level of preparedness
and then to prioritize and close the current preparedness gaps.
•Progress towards achieving the “Vision of Success” is then demonstrated
by measurable results flowing from projects and programmes designed to
close the gaps in a meaningful fashion.
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APELL Handbook: 2nd Edition
• Currently under peer review
• Online version available in October
2014 on:
– UNEP Website: www.unep.org/apell
– APELL Platform:
http://apell.eecentre.org
• Hardcopies available by November
2014 and available from UNEP:
– To receive a copy please contact:
Johanna.Suikkanen@unep.org
• Pick your copy of the brochure at
the end of this session!