TTX DIVISION
by Norhisham KamarudinNational Security Council
Alor Setar, KedahINITIAL PLANNING CONFERENCE FOR ARF DiREx 2015
9-11 September 2014
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Day 1 Recap(9 September 2014)
• Many major natural disaster have occurred in the ASEAN region.
• We need to analyze and learn from real-life situations, national briefings, and the challenges in receiving assistance
• Briefing – national strategic, civil agencies, military perspective, NGOs
• AHAC (ASEAN) vs ERC (UN)• SASOP, Oslo Guideline, APC-MADRO
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• We need to test local SOP• Providing Assistance easier than Receiving
Assistance, both to fix mechanism• How can a country receive relief in a
coordinated manner?• Civil-military coordination lesson learned• Impacts on security looting on different
groups• How to organise USAR team, share
information, support from other international organisation
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Day 1 Recap(9 September 2014)
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• What is the trigger point/mechanism in the country? What is the procedure to ask forassistance? How to receive? How to organise assistance including until early recovery?
• Address 10 challenges listed in the concept paper
• To test ERAT, UNDAC, other advance team (Advance Logistic Team)
• Give prominence to AHA Centre• Consular management 4
Day 1 Recap(9 September 2014) (cont)
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TTX Programme (tbc)
DateActivities
TTX FTX
1 FebCIQ Arrival (RDC)
EOC Training
2 FebOpening Ceremony
Expert Session BriefingCombined Training
Exercise
3 Feb TTX(9.00 – 17.00)
FTX Activities
4 Feb Field Observation(9.00 - ??)
5 FebClosing Ceremony
AAR Meeting
6 Feb Departure
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TTX Concept
• ½ day Expert briefing session
• Followed by 1 day TTX
• Moves 1 – briefing on national response to shorten the event to concentrate on Moves 2 and Moves 3
• To cover 10 challenges in the concept paper
• Civil Military Coordination
• Multi-National response mechanism
• Complimentary roles of AHAC and ERC
• Channel of assistance
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Proposed Expert Session Briefing
1. Japan in receiving humanitarian assistance (Great East Japan Earthquake 2011)
2. Philippines in receiving humanitarian assistance (Super Typhoon Haiyan 2013)
3. AHA Centre – ASEAN Mechanism
4. UN OCHA – UN Mechanism
5. ICRC – International Disaster Response Law (IDRL)
6. Mercy Malaysia – Haiyan response and recovery
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Others to be considered:1. New Zealand Earthquake 20122. Haiti Earthquake 2010
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Proposed Expert Session Briefing (cont)
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• Need to focus more on future contingencies and take past events into consideration to feed into the TTX
• AHA Centre will look into possibilities for a joint-operational centre with ASEAN JOCA to include providing disaster relief assistance to the ARF Memberso The outcome will be presented during the FPC
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Day 2 Recap(11 September 2014)
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Day 2 Recap(11 September 2014)
(cont)
• Include specific briefing:o On the mechanisms used during major disaster for
the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 o On the coordination of receiving aid during the
Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippineso On NGO’s mechanisms in providing aid
• Discussion to include two days for the TTX will be taken into consideration to maximize outcome of the exercise
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Day 2 Recap(11 September 2014)
(cont)
• The themes need to be narrowed down in order to get a more comprehensive dialogue between the 27 ARF Members
• The two themes that were decided to be focused on are:o Multinational Coordinationo Civil-Military Coordination
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THANK YOU
TERIMA KASIH