AADMER AND ASEAN’S COOPERATION WITH THE AADMER AND ASEAN’S COOPERATION WITH THE CIVIL SOCIETY IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

By Adelina KamalHead of Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance Division, ASEAN Secretariat

2nd Workshop on ASEAN Defense Establishments and CSOs Cooperation on Disaster Management, 28-29 June 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

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FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS, 8 OUT OF 10 ASEAN MEMBER STATES HAVE EXPERIENCED MAJOR DISASTERS WITH ALMOST 500 THOUSAND PEOPLE DEAD OR MISSING, RECONSTRUCTION COSTS OF MORE THAN USD 10 BILLION AND MORE THAN 17 MILLION PEOPLE AFFECTED

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584 million people

home of mega disasters

Affect584

million or

nearly 1/10 of world

population

Number of disasters in ASEAN from 2001-2009:1.Flood – 213 (13% of world total)2.Storm – 132 (13%)3.Earthquake – 42 (15%)4.Landslide – 42 (24%)5.Epidemic – 36 (6%)6.Volcanic eruption – 15 (26%)7.Drought – 12 (7%)8.Wildfire – 7 (5%)

Source: http://www.emdat.be

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A legal framework for all ASEAN Member States and serves as a common platform in responding to disasters within ASEAN

Initiated in mid 2004 before tsunami, signed by Foreign Ministers of ASEAN in July 2005 after 4 months of negotiation

Objective: Reducing disaster losses in ASEAN countries, and jointly respond to disaster emergencies

AADMER - FOR A MORE AADMER - FOR A MORE UNITED AND COORDINATEDUNITED AND COORDINATED RESPONSE RESPONSE TOWARD DISASTERS WITHIN THE REGIONTOWARD DISASTERS WITHIN THE REGION

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Ratified by all ten countries in ASEAN, entered into force on 24 Dec 2009

ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) as the operational coordination body and engine of AADMER

ASEAN Leaders have designated Secretary-General of ASEAN as the ASEAN Humanitarian Assistance Coordinator for natural disasters and pandemic in ASEAN

AADMER - FOR A MORE AADMER - FOR A MORE UNITED AND COORDINATEDUNITED AND COORDINATED RESPONSE RESPONSE TOWARD DISASTERS WITHIN THE REGIONTOWARD DISASTERS WITHIN THE REGION

Mentioned under both the Political Security cooperation as well Socio-cultural cooperation of the ASEAN blueprint signed by all ASEAN Leaders

National Disaster Management Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs, Brunei Darussalam

National Committee for Disaster Management, Cambodia

National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), Indonesia

National Disaster Management Office, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Lao PDR

National Security Division, Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia

Relief and Resettlement Department, Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Myanmar

National Disaster Coordinating Council, Philippines

Singapore Civil Defence Force, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore

Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Ministry of Interior, Thailand

Central Committee of Flood and Storm Control, Viet Nam

ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management

Current Chair

The Parties shall prepare Standard Operating Procedures for:o regional standby arrangementso utilisation of military and civilian assetso coordination of joint disaster relief and emergency response operations

Tools under AADMER: SASOPTools under AADMER: SASOP

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ASEAN Standby Arrangements for Disaster Relief and Emergency ASEAN Standby Arrangements for Disaster Relief and Emergency ResponseResponse

o emergency response/ SAR directoryo military and civilian assetso emergency stockpiles of relief itemso DM expertise and technologies

ContentsContentsDisaster PreparednessAssessment & MonitoringEmergency ResponseChapter VI: Facilitation &

Utilisation of Military & Civilian Assets & Capacities (being developed)

Annexes (of Templates and Forms)

……. SASOP as the operational document …... SASOP as the operational document …..

ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response Simulation Exercise (ARDEX)Simulation Exercise (ARDEX)

• Annual conduct of ARDEX to enhance Member Countries’ capabilities in joint disaster relief and emergency operations

• Lessons learnt serve as inputs for review, and enhancement for the ASEAN SASOP

Article 8.3.c Conduct training and exercises to attain and maintain the relevance and applicability of the Standard Operating Procedures

ARDEX-05 MalaysiaARDEX-05 MalaysiaCollapsed Structure Disaster Collapsed Structure Disaster

ScenarioScenario

ARDEX-06 CambodiaARDEX-06 CambodiaFlood DisasterFlood Disaster

ScenarioScenario

ARDEX-07 SingaporeARDEX-07 SingaporeMassive Collapse of StructuresMassive Collapse of Structures

ScenarioScenario

ARDEX-08 ThailandARDEX-08 ThailandTyphoon, technological disasterTyphoon, technological disaster

scenarioscenarioARDEX-09 PhilippinesARDEX-09 Philippines

Volcanic eruption scenarioVolcanic eruption scenario

ARDEX-10 IndonesiaARDEX-10 IndonesiaEarthquake tsunami, chemical Earthquake tsunami, chemical

emergency scenarioemergency scenario

ASEAN-Emergency Rapid Assessment Team ASEAN-Emergency Rapid Assessment Team (ERAT)(ERAT)

Idea endorsed by ASEAN Member States in March 2008

First deployment (2 times) in 2008 after Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar

ERAT being formed, to be tested as part of ARDEX scenario

ERAT being formed, to be tested as part of ARDEX in early Nov

Objective: a pool of trained and rapidly deployable (within 24 hours) ERAT

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All ASEAN’s work linked to disaster management needs to be in line with the AADMER

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ASEAN HAS ADDRESSED CIVIL MILITARY COORDINATION IN ASEAN HAS ADDRESSED CIVIL MILITARY COORDINATION IN AADMERAADMER

Maintain ASEAN’s centrality and coordinate efforts

AADMER Articles 8, 9, 11, 12 and 15

Draft Chapter VI of SASOP underlines the need to treat the utilisation of military assets as part of a “Whole Government Approach”

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ASEAN HAS ADDRESSED CIVIL MILITARY COORDINATION IN ASEAN HAS ADDRESSED CIVIL MILITARY COORDINATION IN AADMERAADMER

Involve or consult the civilian government organisations in charge of disaster management (the National Disaster Management Organisations or NDMOs) who are members of ACDM

It is critical that ADMM/ADSOM’s work and other relevant entities be familiar with AADMER and the operational documents developed so far

AADMER belongs not only to the NDMOs, but to all elements of the society in ASEAN countries

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Principle 6Principle 6:

“The Parties, in addressing disaster risks, shall involve, as appropriate, all stakeholders including local communities, non-governmental organisations and private enterprises, utilising, among others, community-based disaster preparedness and early response approaches”

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From a LOOSELY-ORGANISED body towards more RULE-BASED inter-governmental organisation

Providing ASEAN with a LEGAL PERSONALITY To be an EFFECTIVE PLAYER on the international stage

CHAPTER 1: PURPOSES, point 13CHAPTER 1: PURPOSES, point 13

“ To promote a PEOPLE-ORIENTED ASEAN in which all the sectors of society are encouraged to participate in, and benefit from, the process of ASEAN integration and community building”

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ASEAN CHARTERTHE SIGNIFICANCE OF ASEAN CHARTER

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Examples of engagement with CSO

• Grounding of policies (such as providing inputs in the development of policies, facilitating dialogues, providing platforms for bringing the voices of the most vulnerable)

• Support in the development of monitoring indicators for key policy outputs

ASEAN Partnership GroupASEAN Partnership Group

ASEAN Partnership

Group in AADMER

• Strengthening institutional capacity (such as through secondment, attachment programme, etc)

• Supporting the implementation (such as ASEAN youth volunteers programme, public education and awareness, training, etc)

• Sharing good practices and tools• Monitoring progresses at the community level

Examples of engagement with CSOs

Cyclone pathCyclone path

Cyclone NargisCyclone Nargis

• First time for ASEAN’s collective response to a major disaster within the ASEAN region• First time for ASEAN to establish an ASEAN-led

coordinating mechanism and play a significant role in the international humanitarian arena• First time for mechanisms and tools under

AADMER tested and utilised in a real situation

Assessment and Monitoring

• Post-Nargis Joint Assessment

• Periodic Reviews• Social Impacts

Monitoring

CSOs Participation

• Planning and execution (such as development of tools, facilitating dialogues, etc)

• Operational support• Assessment teams• Peer review

ASEAN Volunteers Programme• First-ever in ASEAN• Promoting people-

centred ASEAN• Bringing ASEAN closer

to the people• Cooperation with local

and international NGOs to train and work together with the ASEAN volunteers

CSOs Participation

• Development of proposals• Planning• Training of ASEAN volunteers• Implementation• Direct feedback

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AADMER provides the opportunity for ASEAN to work closely with the CSOs, particularly those who are ASEAN-borne and ASEAN-based: “People-Centered Approach”

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AADMER provides the legal framework for both civilian and military organisations in enhancing ASEAN cooperation in disaster management: “Whole Government Approach”

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