True or False
The U.S. spends 25% of its federal budget towards Foreign Assistance.
What is False?
This type of funding means they remain in our account until expended.
What is "No Year Funding"?
Here, at this website, you can check recent global seismic activity, including earthquake and volcano activity?
What is usgs.gov?
Tropical Cyclone Idai was one of the worst tropical cyclones at the time in this hemisphere.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Title II – is administered by USAID and provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities to meet emergency and non‐emergency food aid needs.
What is True?
This BHA recognized type of disaster can lead people to dispose of their assets and to migrate to other areas.
What is a "Slow Onset" disaster?
USGS's PAGER alert (Prompt Assessment for Global Earthquake Responses) reports on earthquake activity worldwide, including showing the estimated population exposed to this.
What is shaking?
The Japan Earthquake/Tsunami of March 2021 was this type of disaster.
What is a Rapid Onset?
BHA has day‐to‐day operations headquartered in New York City.
What is False?
The person BHA coordinates with most directly is not the Ambassador, but usually this person.
Who is the MDRO?
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a predict hurricanes through this.
What is the National Hurricane Center?
In this year Honduras experienced widespread flooding and landslides.
What is 2022?
Early warning systems that give lead time to people to take action before a hurricane strikes or a volcano erupts is an example of Risk Reduction.
What is True?
BHA's three response categories are.
What are funding, commodities, personnel and services?
This website is the flagship for information sharing in the humanitarian community.
What is Reliefweb.int?
As of 2017 this Hurricane was the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record.
What is Hurricane Irma?
Notwithstanding Authority: The Foreign Assistance Act of 1964, as amended (P.L. 87‐195), allows the President to provide disaster assistance, “notwithstanding any other provision of this or any other Act,” which would otherwise prohibit or restrict aid to selected countries, such as economic sanctions.
What is False? (FAA of 1964)
This is the world's largest humanitarian organization, with 191‐member National Societies.
What is the IFRC?
This system allows relief actors to coordinate by sector to share information, deconflict programming, and coordinate to ensure the highest quality humanitarian response.
What is the Cluster System?
A DHN was declared in Turkey for this event.
What is an Earthquake?