How does FMT registration help the affected country?
- Provides assurance to recipient countries that registered FMTs have declared to meet agreed international minimum standards and core principles.
- Identifies, through declaration, capabilities and operational capacity of FMTs which helps in targeting health needs in the affected country
- Assists in strengthening national response by supporting requirement for National governments to invite and authorize select FMTs from the register.
- Improves coordination, and thus timeliness of entry, response and mobilization of FMTs, in line with other international teams arriving to an affected country
- Improves collaboration between local, national and international teams in targeting needs, and mapping of response.
- Assists in predicting likely response from FMTs
- Improves management of surge mechanisms with other organizations
- Contributes to improving professional accountability of practice by FMTs deploying
- Helps develop a greater understanding at all government and non government levels amongst those that send and receive FMTs to improve response coordination and standards and thereby reduce morbidity and mortality.
- Assists in exit co-ordination of FMTs, information and data gathering and thus future responses
- Improves collaborations with host government response activities
