Sawyer Baker
sawyerkbaker@gmail.com
Sawyer Baker is the Program Officer for the Global Disaster Preparedness Center, which is a reference center co-hosted by the American Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Since joining the GDPC in November 2014, Sawyer has worked at the IFRC Secretariat in Geneva as staff-on-loan and has presented at various conferences on how the Center has been able to scale globally and localize disaster preparedness programming. She is currently supporting the Center’s newest flagship program, the Business Preparedness Initiative, which aims to save lives, protect livelihoods, and shorten recovery time by providing small businesses with an adaptable suite of preparedness tools and services.
Before coming to the American Red Cross, Sawyer interned at the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Pathways to Housing DC, and was a Red Cross volunteer. She received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Political Science from Iowa State University, where she also served as an ex-officio member of the Ames City Council. Sawyer holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from The George Washington University.
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The third edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR): “From shared risk to shared value: The business case for disaster risk reduction” is a resource for understanding and analyzing global dis...
Case Study
In August 2008, as flood waters from the Saptakoshi River raged through far-Eastern Nepal, displacing 70,000 people, the Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) immediately provided relief items and other vital assistance. It also found itself needing to advo...
Guidance material
The purpose of this guideline is to provide guidance to Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies on effectively engaging in informal Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) educational initiatives. This publication is meant, in relation to DRR and educati...
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Use the following table to identify members of your program committee and compile their contact information. Use the list to prepare a distribution list for communicating with committee members and distribution of program documentation. For more...
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A business impact analysis (BIA) predicts the consequences of disruption of a business function and process and gathers information needed to develop recovery strategies. Potental loss scenarios should be identified during a risk assessment. Operatio...
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An Emergency Response Team will aid buisnesses in the events of an incident. One way to recruit members, alread on staff, is to have people who are already predisposed to helping and trained. By circulating this survey, a manager may be able to ident...
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Every business should develop and implelement an emergency plan for protecting employees, visitors, contractors, and anyone else on site. An emergency response plan is a written document that enables business to plan for incident response and is incl...
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A risk assessment is a process to identify potential hazards and analyze what could happen if a hazard occurs. This is different from a business impact analysis (BIA) as a BIA is the process for determining the potential impacts resulting from the in...
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This form can be used to document observations and notes about how the organization performed during drills and exercises. These findings should be shared amongst senior executives and will inform the plans for the next activity. For more information...