Questionnaire for those submitting nominations
Please note: Once you have nominated an individual or institution for the award,
your nominee must provide supporting documenting to be considered for the award.
For suggestions on how to provide supporting documentation, see section on
Guidelines for Supporting Documentation.
Please fill out this section only if you are nominating an institution
Institution name: National Institute of Emergency Management of the Chinese
Academy of Governance (CAG/NIEM)
Address of headquarters: No.6 Chang Chun Qiao Road, Haidian District, 100089
Beijing, P. R. China
Date of creation: November 2008
Main fields of activity: Training, research, policy recommendation, and international
exchange
Size: 40 staff members
Organization structure: Housed within CAG, NIEM has three departments, i.e.
Department of Training and Education, Department of International Affairs, and
Department of Policy and Research. In addition, NIEM houses the China-EU Institute
of Emergency Management.
Annual budget and sources of income: Approximately USD 1.7 million from the
Chinese government, approximately USD 1.2 million from other sources through
international cooperation programs.
Name and title of chief executive officer: Dr. Qiao Renyi, General Director
For those submitting nominations, please provide your details
Nominator’s name: Dr. Jonathan Stromseth
Address: The Asia Foundation, Rm. 1905，Buidling No. 1, Henderson Center, 18
Jianguomennei Avenue, Beijing, China, 100005
Email: jstromseth@asiafound.org
Present position: Country Representative for China, The Asia Foundation
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In less than 100 words, please describe the remarkable and innovative effort
carried out by the nominee to reduce the impact of disasters and build
disaster resilience.
CAG/NIEM plays a special role in China’s system to reduce the impact of
disasters and build disaster resilience. Since its creation, CAG/NIEM has
concentrated on developing systematic and practical capacity building programs
for government officials at both the national and local levels. Previously, these
officials often performed relatively well in responding to disasters, but
demonstrated weakness in handling other phases of disaster management.
CAG/NIEM’s programs integrate several important elements of disaster
preparedness, including improving the policy framework (i.e. contingency plans
at all levels of government), developing appropriate action plans, conducting
exercises in line with the developed plans, volunteerism, etc.
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In less than 100 words, please describe how the nominee’s actions have
heightened awareness about the need to reduce disaster risk. In doing so,
please indicate where (local, national, regional or global) the impact of the
individual’s or organization’s actions has been felt.
CAG/NIEM’s training programs have helped officials and agencies at the local,
regional and national levels to understand the importance of reducing disaster
risk and to obtain concrete skills to do so. For example, CAG/NIEM has worked
with The Asia Foundation to train government officials and local CAG faculty
members on designing, developing, executing, and evaluating emergency
exercises to better prepare for disasters. These programs have exposed local
governments (e.g. Shenzhen) to new and practical methodologies to identify local
risks and devise solutions to transfer or mitigate the risks through an inclusive
process led by key disaster management government agencies.
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In less than 100 words, please describe how the nominee’s actions resulted in
new partnerships that strengthen disaster resilience. If applicable, please
describe the nature of these partnerships.
CAG/NIEM has promoted public-private partnership for disaster management in
China through its training programs. For courses on cooperation and
coordination for disaster management, CAG/NIEM develops and utilizes case
studies of good experiences from various countries to encourage government
officials to collaborate with other sectors. In addition, CAG/NIEM’s training
programs on emergency exercises teach participants practical ways of engaging
players from other sectors throughout the whole process of exercise design,
development, execution, and emulation. Such active engagement in preparation
has fostered better understanding and stronger partnership between government
agencies and other players in cities such as Shenzhen.
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In less than 100 words, please describe how the nominee’s efforts satisfy
different elements essential to reducing and mitigating disaster risk. These
can include: using a multihazard approach, gender perspective, community
participation, cultural diversity, capacity building, technology transfer and
training and education.
CAG/NIEM has integrated into its work several elements to reducing and
mitigating disaster risk, especially capacity building. Currently, CAG/NIEM’s
capacity building efforts target two key groups. First, CAG/NIEM trains high- to
middle-level government officials at key national and local disaster management
agencies who are relatively new to ideas and approaches related to disaster risk
reduction. Second, CAG/NIEM helps improve the training capacity of faculty
members at CAG’s 47 local branches, who are tasked with training lower-level
government officials on disaster management. Through these two avenues,
CAG/NIEM has contributed substantially to disaster risk reduction efforts in
China.
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In less than 100 words, please describe how the nominee’s work is funded.
CAG operates with funding from various sources, including the Chinese
government, multilateral and bilateral donor agencies, international
non-governmental organizations, and foreign and Chinese enterprises.