INSARAG is a global network of more than 80 countries and organisations under the United Nations umbrella. INSARAG deals with urban search and rescue (USAR) related issues, aiming to establish minimum international standards for USAR teams and methodology for international coordination in earthquake response based on the INSARAG Guidelines endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 57/150 of 2002, on “Strengthening the Effectiveness and Coordination of International Urban Search and Rescue Assistance”
INSARAG STATEMENT
A word from our INSARAG Global Chairman
The 2017 INSARAG Steering Group meeting befittingly took part of the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week (HNPW) in Geneva on the 9th of February 2017. The week saw around 1,300 participants with representatives from Member States, UN agencies, NGOs, the private sector, regional organizations and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement...... (read more)
Ambassador Manuel Bessler
INSARAG Chairman
Regional NEWS
INSARAG UPCOMING EVENTS
Global NEWS
- Wisdom of (using) the crowds: Enhancing disasters preparedness through public training in Light Search and Rescue
- Final report: KoBo Training of Trainers 8.-9.5.2018, Finland
- New checklist version July 2018
- Training course for USAR Structural Engineers in Poggioreale, Sicily, 21-26 October 2018.
- Key points _ Mid-year Teleconference_INSARAG Regional Chairs and Working Group Chairs, 14 June 2018
- INSARAG Guidelines Review Group (GRG)
- New INSARAG Guidelines APP
- Sudden Onset & Humanitarian Response Mapping Course
- INSARAG 2017 Report and Group Decision 2018
- Crisis Response Journal
- National Accreditation Process News
- International Conference for Decade Memory of the Great Wenchuan Earthquake
- INSARAG Working group's Meeting of the ISG agenda for 2017–18
- OSOCC e-learning course
- Completed work of the LTWG