Aims to strengthen local preparedness capacities to ensure timely and effective humanitarian assistance. PER is a cyclical approach for a National Society to systematically assess, measure, and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of its response system, and to construct a work-plan accordingly.
The PER, with its 37 components in the areas of 1) policy, strategies and standards, 2) analysis and planning, 3) coordination, 4) operational capacity, and 5) operations support, provides coherence and guidance to National Societies on all elements and its interconnections which comprise a robust National Disaster Preparedness for Response Mechanism.