Remember these words, "Cost to Capability." They may be the future of emergency management and homeland security grants. People (Congress for instance) want the answer to the question, "What are we getting for our money, what is the return on our investment?" Or, cost to capability? (a new way of saying it, I guess).
Recently the GAO released their report on UASI Jurisdictions:
FEMA Lacks Measures to Assess How Regional Collaboration Efforts Build Preparedness Capabilities
I'm not sure that there is a way to measure regional success in our business. I can feel it in my bones when things are clicking in regional efforts, but putting a grade, a number, some type of measurement on it is very difficult, and that is why it hasn't been done.
The worst thing they can do is come up with some artificial measurement that forces jurisdictions to do more administrative tracking, but doesn't accomplish anything and is not a true measure. My bones tell me that that is the direction we are heading. Right or wrong, we'll measure something and declare victory!
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Recently the GAO released their report on UASI Jurisdictions:
FEMA Lacks Measures to Assess How Regional Collaboration Efforts Build Preparedness Capabilities
I'm not sure that there is a way to measure regional success in our business. I can feel it in my bones when things are clicking in regional efforts, but putting a grade, a number, some type of measurement on it is very difficult, and that is why it hasn't been done.
The worst thing they can do is come up with some artificial measurement that forces jurisdictions to do more administrative tracking, but doesn't accomplish anything and is not a true measure. My bones tell me that that is the direction we are heading. Right or wrong, we'll measure something and declare victory!
