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 PAGE 83 CHAPTER 3 BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION This chapter describes the activities needed to build effective emergency management organizations, beginning with the fundamentals of running a local emergency management agency. The most important concept in this chapter is the development of a local emergency management committee (LEMC) that establishes horizontal linkages among a local jurisdiction’s government agencies, NGOs, and private sector organizations relevant to emergency management. In addition, an LEMC can provide vertical linkages downward to househ