The Netherlands National Handbook on Decision-Making in Crisis Situations IX Exercises and evaluation 1. Ministers are responsible for the structure, quality and timely adaptation of their crisis organisations and agreements, as laid down in, for instance, their own ministry’s crisis management handbooks. Each minister organises training courses and exercises to improve his own crisis decision-making structures and procedures. 3. All the national crisis organisation’s activities are subsequently evaluated in order to learn from past experience. The Minister of Security and Justice initiates the evaluation with the assistance of the National Academy for Crisis Management (NAC). 2. The Ministry of Security and Justice houses the National Academy for Crisis Management, which enhances the quality of the crisis organisation by offering training programmes and organising exercises for the benefit of the national crisis organisation, collaborating with public and private partners and participating in international exercises. Its purpose is to maintain the requisite level of preparedness and to identify potential improvements in the structure and organisation of crisis management. 33