SEPTEMBER 2021 VOL. 17 CFE-DM NEWS Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Monthly Newsletter

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Calling for Applicants: CFE-DM will host the Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) Workshop from 1800 – 2200 on 7-18 Nov 2021, Hawaii Standard Time via the Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing platform. Application Deadline: 5:00pm (Hawaii Standard Time) on September 15, 2021 To Apply: https://www.cfe-dmha.org/ Training/HELP

A field visit to ’s National Emergency Management Office; from left to right: CFE-DM Programs, Plans & Analysis Branch Chief, Clyde Louchez, CFE-DM Director, Joseph Martin, NEMO Director, Waymine Towai, NCDR Secretary General, Wei-Sen Li, NCDR Researcher, Wen-Ray Su, NFA Section Chief Wei-Jou Wen, Coast Guard Administration Deputy Director of Fleet Branch, Chin-Ho Wu.

DEADLINE: September 20, 2021 CFE-DM facilitated Disaster Management Workshop in Koror, Palau Please send articles and images to: CFE-DM facilitated a disaster management workshop in Koror, Palau from August [email protected] 10 - 12. Convened in support of the US Pacific Fleet-led Pacific Partnership 2021, the Please submit an article related to workshop brought together disaster managers from ’s Coast Guard, National how conflicts and humanitarian Fire Agency, and National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction action will evolve going forward. (NCDR) along with U.S. Marine Expeditionary Task Force Koa Moana to share operational insights and good practices with 20 members of the Republic of Palau’s What will be the impact on National Emergency Council. Surangel Whipps Jr., the President of the Republic of civilians? What will the coordination Palau, delivered a keynote address to kick off the workshop along with Vice President J. mechanisms look like? What needs Uduch Sengabau Senior, U.S. Ambassador John Hennessy-Niland, Taiwan Ambassador to be done to succeed in both the Wallace M.G. Chow, and CFE-DM Director Joseph Martin. The workshop was held humanitarian and military sectors four months after Surigae, the largest typhoon to impact Palau since Typhoon to overcome these anticipated Haiyan in 2013, struck the island. Discussion included evacuation of outlying islands; challenges? communication networks; and information integration and early warning. Following the workshop, the CFE-DM and Taiwan delegation visited the National Emergency SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Management Office (NEMO). To further cooperation, the U.S. and Taiwan delegations • Maximum word count of 5,000 proposed future activities with Palau, including: a Pacific Partnership 2022 stop in Palau; • Short biography and headshot - incorporation of Palau into the Taiwan-led Global Cooperation and Training Framework Email article as an unformatted (GCTF); the donation of two light vessels to Palau’s Maritime Police by the Taiwan Coast Microsoft Word file Guard Administration; and an invitation by the National Fire Agency (NFA) to Palau • Email images as separate, stand- disaster managers to train at their Search and Rescue Center in Taiwan. alone files (jpeg) WWW.CFE-DMHA.ORG @cfedmha Cobra Gold 2021 HADR TTX CFE-DM conducted its annual COBRA GOLD Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Response Table Top Exercise (CG21 HADR TTX) course 30 July – 01 August 2021. In response to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, the HADR TTX was conducted in a fully virtual environment; it was planned and executed in partnership with the Directorate of Joint Civil Affairs of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters (RTARF) and was jointly developed as an intensive group problem solving exercise to build capacity and mutual understanding among Pacific-based personnel engaged in military planning and operations supporting disaster response. World class subject matter experts provided participants with Civil-Military coordination mechanisms, management, assessment, and evaluation capabilities required for militaries preparing for and responding to natural disasters and the populations affected by humanitarian crises. Cobra Gold 2021 HADR TTX Partnerships included the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) Pacific Regional Office, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), the Government of Thailand Disaster Relief Division, the Office of Policy and Planning, the Ministry of Defence of Thailand, the Ruamkatanyu Foundation, and Changi Regional HADR Coordination Centre (RHCC). This year’s exercise trained military professionals from nine partner militaries from around the Indo-Pacific (China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and United States). CFE-DM-AFP Public Health Webinar Series On August 10, 2021, CFE-DM kicked off its inaugural webinar in support of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and their civilian interagency counterparts. The objective of the webinar series is to build public health and civil-military coordination capacity both within the Philippines and regionally. In his opening remarks, COL Arman Mampusti, International Affairs Division, AFP, referenced the importance of partnerships as codified by the Visiting Forces Agreement and noted the centrality of civil-military The U.S. and the Philippines highlighted the recent U.S. donation of an additional 3 million vaccines through the COVAX facility, bringing the total coordination in disaster response. U.S. contribution to the Philippines to 6 million doses. Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott, incoming Chair of Global Public Health at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, provided remarks examining the role of militaries in COVID-19 response to date. His presentation illustrated the post-Cold War origins of the military role in health emergencies, the U.S., UK, and PRC interventions in the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, and the diverse functions militaries around the world have assumed in the current pandemic. While the vast majority hailed from the Philippines, representatives from National Disaster Management Agency of Malaysia, Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees also joined. CFE-DM Supports CGSC RLDP In support of U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) and the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), CFE-DM provided a four-hour interactive engagement with thirteen members of the 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade (5SFAB) enrolled in CGSC’s Regional Leader Development Program (RLDP) August 23, 2021. Based in Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), the 5SFAB trains and equips 61 advisory teams to deploy anywhere in the world and execute Security Force Assistance operations in complex, austere, and potentially non-permissive environments. CFE-DM provided an overview of U.S. policies and procedures governing DoD support to Foreign Disaster Relief (FDR), as well best practices and lessons learned from past FDR operations. The interactive module’s capstone was a team analysis of JTF-505’s successful execution of OPERATION SAHAYOGI HAAT following the Ghorka Earthquake which devastated Nepal in April, 2015. “CGSC and RLDP is providing opportunities for our students to learn how to think strategically and operationally,” said K.K. Chin, RLDP senior mentor. “The Army strength is in our Soldiers and leaders. It’s important that they learn how to ensure that their orders and actions have beneficial strategic and operational impacts.” CFE-DM provides Virtual Support to Pacific Partnership 2021 – Philippines CFE-DM provided virtual training aimed at enhancing the participants’ understanding of operations related to Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) protection during and after a disaster or emergency in support of Pacific Partnership 2021 for Legazpi City Aug 9-11, 2021. CFE-DM provided sessions covering the Introductions to Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM), Cluster System Approach, Core Humanitarian Principles, Standards and Guidelines.

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