TTX DIVISION by Norhisham Kamarudin National Security Council IPC 9-11 August 2014 TTX DIVISION by Norhisham Kamarudin National Security Council Alor Setar, Kedah INITIAL PLANNING CONFERENCE FOR ARF DiREx 2015 9-11 September 2014 ARF DiREx 2015

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

Day 1 Recap (9 September 2014) 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

Day 1 Recap (9 September 2014) (cont) 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

Expert Session Briefing Combined Training Exercise TTX Programme (tbc) Date Activities TTX FTX 1 Feb CIQ Arrival (RDC) EOC Training 2 Feb Opening Ceremony Expert Session Briefing Combined Training Exercise 3 Feb (9.00 – 17.00) FTX Activities 4 Feb Field Observation (9.00 - ??) 5 Feb Closing Ceremony AAR Meeting 6 Feb Departure

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

Proposed Expert Session Briefing Japan in receiving humanitarian assistance (Great East Japan Earthquake 2011) Philippines in receiving humanitarian assistance (Super Typhoon Haiyan 2013) AHA Centre – ASEAN Mechanism UN OCHA – UN Mechanism ICRC – International Disaster Response Law (IDRL) Mercy Malaysia – Haiyan response and recovery

Proposed Expert Session Briefing (cont) Others to be considered: New Zealand Earthquake 2012 Haiti Earthquake 2010

Day 2 Recap (11 September 2014) 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 Members The outcome will be presented during the FPC

Day 2 Recap (11 September 2014) (cont) Include specific briefing: On the mechanisms used during major disaster for the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 On the coordination of receiving aid during the Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines 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

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: Multinational Coordination Civil-Military Coordination

Thank You Terima Kasih