NATO EADRCC FIELD EXERCISE DISASTER CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT “Bosna I Hercegovina 2017” -Lessons Identified
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i NATO EADRCC FIELD EXERCISE DISASTER CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT “Bosna i Hercegovina 2017” -Lessons identified- NATO EADRCC FIELD EXERCISE DISASTER CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT “Bosna i Hercegovina 2017” -Lessons identified- September 2018 NATO EADRCC FIELD EXERCISE “Bosna i Hercegovina 2017” Publication edited and prepared by: - Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Samir Huseinbašić, PhD, Editor of the publication, Director of the exercise on behalf of BiH, - IdrizBrković, Evaluation team leader on behalf of BiH, - Arina Bešlagić, Leader of DiSTAFF Team on behalf of BiH, - Mr. AlmirBeridan, Leader of DiSTAFF in preparation phase, - OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina - Samir Bašić, Exercise Evaluator, Expert support in preparation of the publication - FahrudinSolak, Federal Civil Protection Administration, Assistant to the Exercise Director, - Zdenko Tadić, Cantonal Civil Protection Administration, Assistant to the Exercise Director, - Dragan Pelemiš, Cantonal Civil Protection Administration, Tuzla Canton, member of DiSTAFF, - Aleksandar Mandić, Team leader for communications on behalf of BiH, - MirnesaSoftić, Team leader for border crossing and transport on behalf of BiH, - MujoRančić, HNS Team leader for administrative work and support, - Lejla Hodžić, HNS Team leader for financial and material support, - SeadVrana, Federal Civil Protection Administration for USAR interventions, - Slađana Raić – Galić, Federal Civil Protection Administration, for HBRN interventions, - SabahudinSpahović, Federal Civil Protection Administration, for water rescue interventions, - DamirGogić, Head of Mountain rescue service Konjic, Mountain rescue intervention, - EnesBešić, Head of Mountain rescue service Srebrenik, Mountain rescue intervention, - Zlatan Bajramović, PhD, Faculty of Political Sciences, Evaluation training in exercise Designand publishing: - OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina DISASTER CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT - Lessons identified - CONTENT Foreword........................................................................................................................................5 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 10 2. Design and dynamics of the exercise .................................................................................................... 11 3. Planning ...................................................................................................................................... 12 3.1. Purpose of the exercise .................................................................................................................... 12 3.2. Goals of the exercise ......................................................................................................................... 12 3.2.1. General goals of the exercise ................................................................................................. 12 3.2.2. Main goals of the exercise ..................................................................................................... 12 3.2.3. Specific goals of the exercise ................................................................................................. 12 3.3. General scenario of the exercise .................................................................................................... 13 3.4. Structure of joint Exercise planning ............................................................................................... 14 3.5. Location of the Exercise ................................................................................................................... 15 4. Organization of the exercise ....................................................................................................... 17 5. Exercise execution ...................................................................................................................... 18 6. Exercise evaluation ...................................................................................................................... 19 6.1. Lessons identified from internal evaluation .................................................................................. 19 6.2. Lessons identified from external evaluation ................................................................................. 21 7. Conclusions ................................................................................................................................. 26 8. Abbreviations and acronyms ...................................................................................................... 27 9. Reference ..................................................................................................................................... 28 Regulations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and reference international documents ....................28 10. Attachments ................................................................................................................................ 29 10.1. Host Nation Support Request List (HNS) ..................................................................................... 29 10.2. Overview of Exercise participation ................................................................................................ 30 10.3. DVD with the following content: video clipand photo gallery from the exercise ................... 35 3 The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina supported the printing of this publication. Any view, statement or opinion expressed in this publication, which is not specifically attributed to the OSCE Mission to BiH, does not necessarily reflect the official policy of the OSCE Mission to BiH. DISASTER CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT - Lessons identified - FOREWORD H.E. Mr. Dragan Mektić, Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina Humanity at the beginning of the 21st century, especially in the second decade (since 2010), has been faced with old and new threats of greater scale and consequences than during the 20th century. Climate change has resulted in the emergence of more complex, so-called traditional threats that manifest themselves through the dangers arising from the nature of hydro- meteorological, geological, environmental, and biological origin. Their strength and intensity have impacted the social communities and have led to a great loss of human life, health, and material and vital resources such as drinking water, crops and food, and other goods (including domestic animals). The trend is to further incorporate these traditional threats, which requires better preparedness for such dangers and the occurrence of an accident. In addition to these dangers of natural origin, there are real threats to overall safety due to technical and technological hazards that result in large scale accidents. There are particular threats due to accidents in industry, energy and mining but not excluding a combination of dangers of nature and technical-technological hazards. For both of them, the most frequent cause is the human factor. The third type of threat is a threat to national security, which is asymmetrical (terrorism and armed conflicts as the most complicated form of terrorism), to which no country is immune, which was shown by the terrorist attacks in the past, especially in the last few years. All these threats can arise individually or as the causal risks of one kind cause other dangers, or a combination of all in a short time. Each country must find resources and leverage built-in capacity to respond locally to global threats (climate change, terrorism) but can not fully respond to accidents and depends on neighbouring assistance and the wider international community. The Exercise “Bosna i Hercegovina 2017”, jointly planned and organized by NATO EADRCC and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Ministry of Security, is a measure of building readiness and strengthening of preparedness by NATO’s system institutions to look at the weaknesses to better respond to new accidents similar to the 2014 floods. It was an opportunity for the authorities at 5 NATO EADRCC FIELD EXERCISE “Bosna i Hercegovina 2017” all levels to recognize the value of this valuable NATO initiative in organizing a large number of participants in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to create a “big picture” which is the response of the state at all levels, what kind of readiness must be achieved for the response, and what is the mechanism of seeking and receiving international assistance, from whom and how can we expect, when in a short time of several hours to a few days the state gets help from dozens of states who understand the tragedy and that every minute of timely and sincere engagement counts. I would like to use this opportunity to thank the OSCE Mission to BiH, which, as in the previous exercises in Bosnia and Herzegovina, gave a great contribution to the organization and performance of the exercise and contributed to the financing of the preparation, publication and printing of brochures on the lessons identified from the exercise. I also thank the co-organizers of the NATO EADRCC exercise, as well as the international organizations that supported the exercise, numerous institutions and authorities, and the protection and rescue system of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the non-governmental sector (Red Cross, Mountain Rescue Services) at all levels as well as numerous participants. In particular, I am very grateful to the institutions and bodies of the Tuzla Canton and the Municipalities (Lukavac,