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What is it about?
Preparedness is an essential aspect of the humanitarian action. Local communities and authorities must be prepared to the eventuality of a crisis to mitigate its negative impact, and humanitarian actors must be adequately prepared to provide an efficient and timely response. One of the functions of the cluster is to build national capacity in preparedness and contingency planning, and WASH coordination team is therefore fully involved in the WASH sector emergency preparedness. WCC must coordinate the preparation of the WASH Emergency Response Plan (ERP) with the partners, and participate in inter-sector and inter-agencies emergency planning process. ERP is inextricably linked to capacity mapping and development, and many tools and approaches are the same for both process.
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