GAO Disaster Assistance Reports - Disaster Response -- Response Capabilities --- Search and Rescue

Disaster Management & Assistance Program

The following reports represent GAO's examination of disaster assistance efforts domestically and overseas. GAO's efforts include recommendations to the Department of State to provide updated project cost estimates, obtained from USAID, to the Congress following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and, following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, recommendations to the Department of Homeland Security to strengthen a variety of capabilities, including response coordination and procurement practices. These reports address:

Disaster Response - Response Capabilities -- Mass Care and Shelter

Disaster Assistance

Improvements in Providing Federal Disaster Case Management Services Could Help Agencies Better Assist Victims
GAO-10-278T, Dec 2, 2009

Disaster Assistance

Greater Coordination and an Evaluation of Programs' Outcomes Could Improve Disaster Case Management
GAO-09-561, Jul 8, 2009

Hurricanes Gustav and Ike Disaster Assistance

FEMA Strengthened Its Fraud Prevention Controls, but Customer Service Needs Improvement
GAO-09-671, Jun 19, 2009

Mass Care in Disasters

FEMA Should Update the Red Cross Role in Catastrophic Events and More Fully Assess Voluntary Organizations' Mass Care Capabilities
GAO-08-1175T, Sep 23, 2008

Voluntary Organizations

FEMA Should More Fully Assess Organization's Mass Care Capabilities and Update the Red Cross Role in Catastrophic Events
GAO-08-823, Sep 18, 2008
GAO Contact

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David Gootnick

Director, International Affairs and Trade

Foreign Disaster Assistance Contact

gootnickd@gao.gov

(202) 512-3149

GAO Contact

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William Jenkins, Jr.

Director, Homeland Security and Justice

Domestic Disaster Assistance Contact

jenkinswo@gao.gov

(202) 512-8757