Host: Intarnational Association of P2M
JMTDR (Japan Medical Disaster Relief Team) is dispatched when large-scaled disaster occurs anywhere in the world in response to a request from a disaster affected country to support its emergent relief activity. Each Member is registered to JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) as a volunteer and a team is organized in each case with a consideration of expertise, etc. of constituent members to meet the needs of the situation in the disaster affected area. The proper preparation and its mechanism to secure total capacity of a team no matter whom are selected as members are required to bring the best of an extemporaneously-formed team in the field to achieve a mission just through short-term and concentrative activities. The framework with a series of activities formed for JMTDR is functioning well as a platform building up total capacity. I would like to propose a model for platform consisting of volunteers formed to attain a specific mission analyzing successful factors of JMTDR in this paper.
