EMERCOM Agency

Agency for the Support and Coordination of Russian Participation in International Humanitarian

Operations

of the Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Russian Federation

EMERCOMs

EMERCOM = EMERgency COMmittee, former name of the Russian Ministry for Civil Defense and Emergencies.

RNCEHR = Russian National Corps of Emergency Humanitarian Response. An intra-Ministerial task force responsible for coordination between various departments, agencies and search-and-rescue centers of the Ministry, to ensure fast-track decision-making as far as emergency relief and humanitarian response operations are concerned. Headed by the Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry.

EMERCOM Agency – 100% state-owned Federal State Establishment, founded by the Ministry, and a part of the RNCEHR. Founded in 1996 as a special foreign commercial division and as a managing/executing organization for the Ministry’s (EMERCOM) humanitarian operations, responsible for the support and coordination of these operations (with other Russian organizations, customs authorities, foreign partners, etc.).

EMERCOM AGENCYMain Fields of Activity

Interaction with international and foreign governmental organizations, NGOs and donors, including UN on matters pertaining to humanitarian response and operations

Support and coordination of Russian participation in international humanitarian operations, carried out on its own or within the frames of UN or other organizations

Import operations to enhance and upgrade the technical level of the EMERCOM forces

Export operations to advance Russian products, services and technologies (fire-fighting, rescue & relief operations equipment, transport services, emergency medicine etc.)

Over 80 humanitarian operations worldwide

EMERCOM Agency

Many partners all over the world

Geography of OperationsAfghanistan, Kirghizia, Armenia, Cuba, PDR Korea,

Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Germany, Moldova, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Sudan, Kosovo, Iraq…

Elimination of consequences of natural disasters

Rendering international humanitarian assistance to the affected population

Humanitarian demining

UNGM UN Global marketplace № 105557, www.ungm.org

UNMAS UN Mine Action Service

UNOPS UN Organization for Project Services

UNHCR UN High Commission for Refugees

WFP World Food Program

UNDP United Nation Development Program

TUF TURINGEN Certification according to ISO 9001:2000 requirements currently performed by TKB INTERCERTIFICA (partner of TUV)

International Representations