Case M16: Emergency Management Authorities – A Response Plan Isn’t an Enterprise Architecture 💲

Protocols Were Defined. But the Emergency System Was Never Designed.

Part of the “One Government, One Anatomy” Review

This case is one of 19 ministries analyzed across Middle Eastern governments under ICMG’s structural diagnostic.

From the UAE’s National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA), Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Civil Defense, Qatar’s National Command Center (NCC), Bahrain’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Committee, and Oman’s National Committee for Emergency Management — each country has made strategic investments in emergency readiness.

But across all cases, we found a critical structural blind spot:

SOPs were prepared. But Emergency Response Systems were not architected.

Claimed EA Success

Emergency agencies claimed substantial EA-driven progress:

• Centralized command centers and early warning systems

• National risk dashboards and incident reporting tools

• Standardized emergency response protocols (ERP) and SOPs

• Simulation rooms and scenario planning pilots

• Integrated communication platforms and stakeholder directories

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