ASEAN - ERAT ASEAN-EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND ASSESSMENT TEAM

One ASEAN, One Response

WHAT IS ASEAN-ERAT? ASEAN-Emergency Response and Assessment Team (ASEAN-ERAT) is a rapidly deployable response team to support the affected ASEAN Member States during major sudden and slow on-set disasters. The members of ASEAN-ERAT come from ten ASEAN Member States and managed by the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre).

Preparedness & Alert, Activation, The ASEAN-ERAT is designed to support National Disaster Pre Deployment Mobilisation Deployment Management Organisation (NDMO) of the affected country during the rst phase of disaster emergency at a very short notice. Whenever a disaster occurs in Southeast Asian region, ASEAN-ERAT members are ready to be deployed ASEAN - ERAT within eight hours after the emergency alert is activated or DEPLOYMENT MECHANISM based on the request of the NDMO of the affected country. The appointed ASEAN-ERAT members can assist up to 14 days at a time during crisis or for an extendable period - upon the request from the affected country. After Action Demobilisation On-Site Review Operation

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TYPHOON MELOR JAKARTA FLOOD 17 5 PHILIPPINES INDONESIA 2015 2013 As of November 2017 18 PHILIPPINES 2016 The establishment of ASEAN-ERAT dated back to 2007, TYPHOON NOCK TEN when the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management 20 PHILIPPINES (ACDM) -which consists of heads of NDMOs of the ten 2016 ASEAN Member States - identi ed the needs for a deployable rapid assessment team in the region. The 2008 Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar marked the rst deployment of ASEAN-ERAT. As of November 2017, the AHA Centre 222 21 7 has deployed 85 out of 222 members to 21 emergency missions in seven ASEAN countries. Members Emergency ASEAN Missions Countries CORE FUNCTIONS OF ASEAN-ERAT In general, the objective of ASEAN-ERAT is to support the NDMO of the affected ASEAN Member State(s) in conducting the following:

Assessment Identify the scale, severity, and impact of a disaster - as well as the needs of the affected population.

Facilitate incoming relief asisstance

Receive incoming relief items and assistance to the affected country. Provide operational support, such as RECRUITMENT OF information management, setting up emergency ASEAN-ERAT MEMBERS communication systems, etc. ASEAN-ERAT members consist of professionals from On-site NDMOs and other related government authorities, as well coordination as from civil society, Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the private sector, and academia of the ten Closely cooperate with ASEAN Member States. Despite this broad range of the AHA Centre and backgrounds and nationalities, when being deployed on a NDMO of the affected mission, team members come together and bear the Member States, for the identity of ASEAN, representing regional solidarity on the deployment of regional ground. assets, disaster relief items, and personnel. The recruitment of ASEAN-ERAT members requires each Establish the Joint Operations individual to complete a 100-hour induction course, and Coordination Centre of designed to equip participants with skills and knowledge ASEAN (JOCCA) in the on: research methodologies, information management, affected country, if required. logistics, on-site coordination, and emergency telecommunications, among others. Since ASEAN-ERAT members need to be self-suf cient, all resources and facilities for their missions are provided by the AHA During non-emergency settings, ASEAN-ERAT members Centre, as not to strain the NDMO of the affected country. can be tasked with preparedness missions, such as Furthermore, since 2015, the ASEAN-ERAT Advisory developing contingency plan, conducting disaster Group was established to periodically advise the AHA simulation exercises, and supporting the integration of Centre in strengthening the ASEAN-ERAT system. ASEAN-ERAT mechanism with national responses system across Southeast Asian countries.

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The AHA Centre

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