When administering Public Assistance program grants, FEMA separates the work into two “types”: Emergency Work and Permanent Work. Within those two “types” of work, there are seven discrete “categories” of work. Learn more about FEMA’s Categories of Work and how projects are classified in the PA program.

How do other countries approach emergency management? Learn about the disaster recovery and risk management strategies employed by Switzerland, Japan, Ecuador, and Indonesia and how they can inform the evolution of emergency management in the US.

If the federal government follows through with its promise to significantly reduce the scope of FEMA or eliminate it altogether, state emergency management agencies will need to come up with a new playbook to handle largescale disasters. Who will pay for it and how?

In rural areas, vast distances and lack of resources can make disaster response and recovery more challenging. Learn how geography, population, and resources impact emergency management in rural places.

The Public Assistance (PA) program is FEMA’s largest and most crucial grant program, devoted to helping communities stabilize, maintain operations, and return to “normal” as quickly as physically possible after a disaster.

The Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (DRRA) introduced several significant reforms that provided even greater flexibility to FEMA’s Public Assistance (PA) program applicants and modified the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).

The Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act was a direct response to the failures of federal response following Hurricane Katrina and was the most significant reform of the Stafford Act to that point in FEMA’s history.