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Emergency Preparedness

SCA programmes are strongly focused on long-term development and rehabilitation. However, due to its size and strong presence in rural, disaster prone areas of Afghanistan, SCA maintains a level of preparedness for emergency interventions in its fields of expertise, such as health, construction and logistics.

SCA can in case of an emergency, mobilise human, organisational and financial recources with short notice. Over the past years, SCA has carried out a substantial number of emergency operations related to earthquakes, drought, infectious diseases, displacements or other types of natural or man-made disasters. Usually such emergency enterventions have taken place in situations where SCA is already working in the concerned geographical area.

SCA was among the first agencies to intervene following two devastating earthquakes in the North (Rustaq 1998 and Nahrin 2002). The organisation is also actively involved in constructing wells to provide safe drinking water in regions affected by drought.