Assessment Study of the Role of NDMAs in COVID-19 Crisis Response and Impact of COVID-19 on NDMAs Operations Format As an emerging systemic risk and “a crisis like no other”, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the countries and territories around the globe in an unprecedented way. The “pandemic crisis of our lifetime” is causing record loss of lives and severe human suffering with more than 2.1 million deaths and 100 million people affected (as of 02 February 2021), leaving long-term consequences and impacting the societies and economies at their core i.e. biggest economic decline since the Great Depression, heavily impacting the communities exacerbating the existing and creating new vulnerabilities. The countries in Europe and Central Asia1 have not been spared: since the first case reported in North Macedonia on 26 February 2020, there are more than 5.8 million cases with an approximate mortality of 1.4% of reported cases or 82 thousand deaths (as of 26 January 2021). All countries were affected with progressive transition from incidental cases to widespread local transmissions throughout all regions. Consequently, the resilience of their societies and communities are being severely affected resulting in falls in gross domestic products, decreased income generation, increased unemployment and poverty rates, fewer remittances, reduction in access to services, increased food insecurity, worsened provision of risk reduction and emergency management services, etc.