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Federal Emergency Management Agency: Disaster Recovery

The Department of Homeland Security's Recovery program ensures that individuals and communities affected by disasters of all sizes, including catastrophic and terrorist events, are able to return to normal function with minimal suffering and disruption of services.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The assessment found that the program has a clear purpose and addresses an existing need. FEMA's recovery programs are designed to avoid duplication of disaster assistance by sequencing the delivery of FEMA assistance with the assistance available from other sources, such as insurance or other federal agency programs.
  • The assessment found that, apart from implementation issues, the program design is somewhat flawed. The program may be used only in areas included in a Presidentially declared disaster. The program may also provide a disincentive for localities to budget for their own local disaster costs.
  • Funding levels for much of the program are not tied to performance. Instead, annual budget requests are generally based on average yearly disaster costs. At the time of the assessment, the program was achieving quarterly milestones and was on track to meet long-term goals.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing baseline information on costs of delivering assistance to inform future performance measurement.
  • Collecting quarterly information on performance and using it to inform program management and improve performance.
  • Integrating the National Response Plan, which was released by DHS after this assessment was performed, into FEMA's Recovery program operations.

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