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Jerome Lebleu

Jerome Lebleu

Jérôme Lebleu is President and Chief Operating Officer of CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), a disaster response nonprofit, and co-founder of Relief Compass.

Sep 4, 2026

13:42
How do you go about activating and moving forward with what you can do boots once you do get boots on the ground? Can you walk through that process?
13:53
Yeah, absolutely.
13:54
So, yeah.
13:55
You know, first thing is we convene an internal go-no-go meeting, right? So we have our emergency response team brings together a group of folks internally, leadership of all relevant departments within the organization presents the facts of, as we know them, of the crisis.
14:19
presents, you know, the impact, the scale, obviously severity, the potential options, you know, what could we do? How could we respond? Depending on that decision, right, that go-no-go during that decision, there's a resource allocation decision made in terms of the level of resources that we're going to commit to a response, both human resources, in-kind prepositioned assets or resources, and financial resources.
15:00
kind of a budget envelope.
15:01
And then we mobilize.

13 MINS LATER

27:43
And, and so I can only imagine how that is in a different part of the world where you have multiple organizations from different countries and different sectors coming together and, What's been your experience with this in real world application?

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