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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has partnered with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA), and Big City Emergency Managers (BCEM) to conduct the Emergency Management Organizational Structures, Staffing, and Capacity Study. This study aims to provide insight on how state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agencies and organizations are structured and staffed, where they get their funding, and how staff time is focused across the spectrum of emergency management activities. Key insights about the capacity and challenges facing emergency management agencies across the nation will help FEMA, IAEM, NEMA, BCEM, and others identify strategies to better support emergency management efforts and increase community resilience. To accomplish the first part of this study, IAEM will be launching four surveys—state, local, tribal, and territorial. The state, local, and territorial surveys are now available. A tribal-specific survey will be available in the coming weeks. If you are the chief emergency management official of a local jurisdiction such as a municipality or county and did not receive an email from IAEM or your state director with a link to the Local Emergency Management Capacity Survey, please complete the Local Emergency Management Capacity Study - Contact Information Form. The study will include elicitation sessions to collect qualitative information and follow-up on survey responses, as well as a review of existing research and data from FEMA, emergency management associations, and other publicly available materials. Argonne National Laboratory will be conducting the analysis.

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