UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2006/2007
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
CSO 587: EMERGENCY TOOLKIT LABORATORY
DATE: 13TH APRIL 2007 TIME: 5.30 P.M. - 8.30 P.M.
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS:
1. (a) What is the rationale for environmental impact assessment (EIA) and social impact assessment
(SIA) in disaster management?
(b) What are the key components of EIA and SIA toolkits?
2. Identify the main psychological symptoms associated with emergency situations, and discuss the support
tools appropriate to them, with particular reference to children and young adults.
3. Illustrating your answer with relevant examples, discuss the principles and practice of pre-hospital and field
hospital care for war-wounded or earthquake victims.
4. Discuss the operations and effectiveness of the Emergency Response Team (ERT), as a basket of
competencies and tools.
5. Cite some examples of effective "living with disasters" in urban Africa to-day, with particular reference to any
three types of disaster.
6. Discuss the essential components of the airline emergency toolkit, with particular reference to Africa.
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UNIVERSITYOF NAIROBI
MODULE II DEGREE PROGRAMME 2005/2006
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN . SOCIOLOGY
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN . SOCIOLOGY
CSO 587: EMERGENCY TOOLKIT LABORATORY
DATE: 16TH DECEMBER, 2006 TIME: 8.00 A.M. -11.00 A.M
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS:
1. Critically discuss the following FIVE concepts, illustrating your answer with pertinent examples:
(a) Screening (b) ERT (c) Solid Waste
(d) Standards (e) Indicator.
2. What logistical considerations would you put into effect for the optima! delivery of necessities and
rescue of victims in a rural district severely hit by floods during the long rains?
3. In what emergency scenarios would the principles, yardsticks and procedures of triage be applicable,
and how would you apply them for optimal effect?
4. Outline the hazard management process, highlighting the main managerial activities involved and
showing how they are to be undertaken.
5. Critically discuss the various measures used to ch,aracterize the magnitude of the following five
emergency-related "indicators": CMR, U5MR, food requirement, nutritional level and appropriate
shelter.
6. Discuss the following toolkits, showing where and how best they might be used:
(a) Water Supply/Quality and Sanitation Toolkit (b) Drought and Famine Relief Toolkits.
(b) Drought and Famine Relief Toolkits.
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MODULE II DEGREE PROGRAMME 2005/2006
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY .
CSO 587: EMERGENCY TOOLKIT LABORATORY
DATE: 4TH MAY, 2006 TIME: 5.30 P.M. - 8.30 P.M
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ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS:
1. Citing relevant examples of packages and case studies of their applications, discuss in some detail
the meaning and value ofthe concept Government Service Package (or GSP).
2. Discuss the main elements of food aid management standards and indicators, with particular reference
to recent experiences in Eastern Africa.
3. What minimum kit of tools do you think would be most effective in handling a slum-area fire emergency
and an airline emergency in a remote part of an African country to-day?
4. The Sphere Project identifies certain minimum "process and people" standards and key indicators it
considers common and applicable to all sectors in which humanitarian agencies may be called upon to
intervene to help disaster-affected populations. Critically discuss these standards and indicators.
5. Discuss the contents of a good search and rescue toolkit, and show how a search and rescue ERU
might apply it in a major earthquake in a large African city.
6. Discuss the following toolkits, showing how best they might be used:
(a) Solid Waste Management Toolkit
(b) Pre-Hospital Care Toolkit
(c) Psychological Support Toolkit.
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MODULE II DEGREE PROGRAMME 2004/2005
EXAMINA TIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
EXAMINA TIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
CSO 587 : EMERGENCY TOOLKIT LABORATORY
D ATE : 14TH SEPTEMBER, 2005 TIME: 5.30 P.M. - 8.30 P.M.
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS:
1. (a) What are the main components of an effective early warning system, and how does the system
as a whole help to achieve the intended goal?
(b) What are the main tools of famine early warning systems?
2. Discuss the main stages of emergency management, supporting your discussion with examples of
toolkits relevant to each stage.
3. Critically discuss the tenets and applicability of the precaution principle in the world today.
4. Discuss the key aspects of the hazard analysis process, underscoring their applicability to African
situations to-day.
5. (a) Present and discuss the risk equation.
(b) Supporting your answer with concrete examples, discuss the main sources of resilience in
rural African communities in terms of identified emergencies.
6. Discuss the following toolkits, showing how best they might be used:
(a) Triage Toolkit
(b) Livelihood Toolkit for Rural Households
(c) Environmental Impact Assessment and Audit.
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MODULE II DEGREE PROGRAMME 2004/2005
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
CSO 587: EMERGENCY TOOLKIT LABORATORY
DATE: 6TH JUNE, 2005 TIME: 5.30 P.M. - 8.30 P.M.
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS:
1. The Sphere Project identifies certain minimum "process and people" standards and key indicators it
considers common and applicable to all sectors in which humanitarian agencies may be called upon
to intervene to help disaster-affected populations. Critically discuss these standards and indicators.
2. Discuss the contents of a good "supply chain management logistics" checklist, and show how a
Logistics ERU might apply it in a major flood situation.
3. According to the Kenyan regulatory regime, there are certain issues to be considered, and guidelines
to follow, when conducting an environmental impact assessment of proposed projects, and all these
must be reflected in the project report. Briefly discuss:
(a) The issues identified in the Second Schedule of the relevant regulations
(b) The guidelines specified in the Third Schedule of the regulations
(c) The expected content of the project report.
4. Using appropriate examples, present and discuss the utility of:
(a) The Vulnerability Analysis Chart
(b) The Risk Analysis Matrix.
5. (a) Supporting your answer with concrete examples, discuss the meaning and rationale behind
Government Service Packages (GSPs)
(b) Identify any two GSPs and show how they might be implemented.
6. Discuss any THREE of the following toolkits, .showing how best they might be used:
(a) Search and Rescue Toolkit
(b) Terrorism Emergency Toolkit
(c) Fire Emergency Toolkit (d) Field Hospital Toolkit.
(d) Field Hospital Toolkit.
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
NOVEMBER 2004-FEBRUARY 2005 SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS
EXAMINA TIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
MODULE II
CSO 587: EMERGENCY TOOLKIT LABORATORY
DATE: 17TH FEBRUARY 2005 TIME: 5.30-8.30 P.M.
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS:
1. Discuss the contents of and rationale for UNHCR' s personal travel kit and field kit, with particular
reference to the roles usually assigned to first responders.
2. Discuss in detail the use of triage and logistics, illustrating your answer with recent African
emergencies or disasters.
3. Identify and discuss the variety of tools that were used in response to the Asian Tsunami that
struck on 26th December 2004, and show the lessons that we can learn from the most innovative
of those tools.
4. Illustrating your answer with concrete examples, discuss the pros and cons of pre-hospital care and the
field hospital as tools for responding to disasters, with particular reference to the African experience.
5. What has been the contribution of early warning systems to disaster prevention and control in Africa
in the recent past?
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MODULE II DEGREE PROGRAMME
2003/2004 EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
CSO 587 : EMERGENCY TOOLKIT LABORATORY
DATE: 10TH JULY, 2004 TIME: 8.00 A.M. - 11.00 A.M.
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS:
1. Critically discuss the following FIVE concepts, illustrating your answer with pertinent examples:
(a) Emergency Response Team (b) Status Indicator (c) Remote Sensing
(d) Risk Reduction (e) Conceptual Tool.
2. Critically discuss, with appropriate evidence, the rationale for and applicability of the precaution
principle as an emergency management tool.
3. (a) Construct a vulnerability analysis chart;
(b) Discuss how you would use the chart with reference to two cities of your choice.
4. Critically discuss the main stages of emergency management, identifying the tools appropriate
to each stage.
5. Describe the toolkits that you would use in response to ANY THREE of the following emergencies,
showing why the toolkits would be the most appropriate:
(a) An earthquake in a large urban area (b) A terrorist attack involving WMD
(c) A tsunami (d) An ebola outbreak.
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MAY-AUGUST 2003 SEMESTER EXAl\UNATIONS
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY
CSO 587: EMERGENCY TOOLKIT LABORATORY
DATE: 23RD AUGUST, 2003 TIME: 11.00 AM. - 2.00 P.M.
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS:
1. Critically discuss ANY THREE of the following concepts, illustrating your answer with pertinent examples:
(a) Toolkit (b) Logistics
(c) Vulnerability (d) Contingency.
2. What items would you include in the personal travel kit and field kit for your emergency personnel,
and why?
3. Construct an emergency scenario to illustrate in detail the application of the principles, yardsticks
and procedures of triage.
4. (a) Describe the fire emergency toolkit that your rescue team would use to combat a major fire
outbreak in a high-rise residential building at night, and show how the team would use it
(b) How would your team organize itself as well as the victims for optimum effect?
5. Describe the toolkits that you would use to control a sudden flood emergency or a sudden
large-scale refugee situation.
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