Evaluation of the Norwegian Emergency Preparedness System (NOREPS) - Evaluation Report 1/2008

The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the contribution and value-added to humanitarian action by the Norwegian Emergency Preparedness System (NOREPS). The Norwegian Government set up NOREPS after the response to the Kurdish crisis in 1991 to improve the response capacity of the international humanitarian system through the provision of high quality goods and services. NOREPS is a public private partnership between the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning (DCPEP), the Norwegian Red Cross, major Norwegian NGOs and selected Norwegian suppliers of relief goods. Innovation Norway provides secretarial and administrative support. NOREPS consists of three main components or deliveries:

••Goods from stockpiles or as in-kind donations. The NOREPS catalogue contains 75
different products for the relief market, from a total of 12 commercial suppliers. The
products have all been vetted by the NOREPS system.
••An emergency staff roster system, NORSTAFF (and the regional variants).
••Service packages, which are made by up by the equipment needed, as well as the
installation, and if required, the staff to manage them.