Project Profiles

Kestrel Group was engaged to provide a training manual and specific training modules for the Group Emergency Operations Centre (GEOC) staff on behalf of the Auckland Civil Defence Emergency Management Group (ACDEM Group) in 2007. The focus of this training was to provide the personnel from Auckland Regional Council, who were drawn form a range of departments, with the appropriate EOC knowledge and skills.

Kestrel was contracted by the Auckland Region CDEM Group to prepare a Mass Evacuation Plan (> 1,000 people) for the Auckland Region.

Working with New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, Kestrel took the existing Niue Cyclone Contingency Plan, and developed an all-hazards readiness and response plan, as well as event- and impact-specific contingency plans. This included a couple of workshops with key stakeholders in Niue to better understand the vulnerabilities and capacity of Niue to respond to, and recover from, a disaster.

Kestrel contact for this project is Gavin Treadgold.

In 2006 Maritime New Zealand undertook to consolidate and recast their team based business continuity arrangements into a whole of organisation business continuity plan. Kestrel Group was engaged to develop the structure of the new plan and to work with Corporate Services to update Resumption Team profiles within the new BCP.

Kestrel was also engaged to provide training for Maritime New Zealand Resumption Teams on the principles of business continuity and the implementation of the MNZ BCP.

The New Zealand Centre for Advanced Engineering (CAENZ) is a think tank based in New Zealand that acts as a national centre within the engineering and technology sectors to provide an independant and non-partisan view on major issues of the day. Kristin Hoskin is the manager of the "Managing with Risk" programme at CAENZ. In this role she provides project management, research contribution, facilitation and develops outreach presentations.

The Auckland CDEM Group commissioned an assessment of how local authorities (councils) in the Auckland region were undertaking risk reduction activities.

A gap analysis of risk reduction activity was undertaken and information collected through workshops, interviews and a comprehensive self assessment survey which allowed for benchmarking between councils. The gap analysis looked at activity concerning the establishment of risk management frameworks, hazard identification and risk assessment, and risk treatment options, communication and monitoring.

Exercise Capital Quake ‘06 was an all-of-nation earthquake simulation exercise held over two days in November 2006. Approximately 1,000 participants from more than 50 organisations were directly involved, including local and central government agencies and private companies, making it one of the largest exercises held in New Zealand at that time.