ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS
First HIA for ASEAN Workshop
Parallel Session 2: HIA Practitioner
Network
Larry Maramis, Director (CSC)
ASEAN Secretariat
one vision
one identity
one community
Outline
• Risk and Adaptation:
– Adapting ASEAN’s disaster management system to
emerging issues of climate change and urbanization
• Innovation:
– Regional coordination and international partnerships
in the context of supporting national capacities
emerging regional response capacities
– Role of disaster management and humanitarian
assistance in the shape of ASEAN centrality,
integration and community building
Adapting ASEAN’s disaster management system to emerging issues of
climate change and urbanization
ADAPTATION: THE REGIONAL
EXPERIENCE IN TACKLING EMERGING
ISSUES
ASEAN Vision 2020
"A concert of Southeast
Asian nations, outward
looking, living in peace,
stability and prosperity,
bonded together in
partnership in dynamic
development and in a
community of caring
societies"
Complex Risk and Vulnerability Factors
• Located at the convergence of
several tectonic plates, and
susceptible to geological movements
• Creating earthquakes and tsunamis
and activating volcanoes.
• El Niño South Oscillation and La
Nina, affect many parts of ASEAN
region results in storms, floods,
and droughts.
• Frequency increasing in droughts,
earthquakes, epidemics, extreme
temperatures, floods, insect
infestations, mass movements,
storms, volcanoes, wildfires
A Complex Disaster Profile
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ASEAN region is vulnerable to all types of natural hazards
Environmental, economic and social impacts of catastrophic disasters have been severe.
Disasters in the ASEAN region are also aggravated by relentless urbanisation, rapid population growth,
and increasing economic exposure
December 2004 tsunami, triggered by seismic activity off
the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, remains one of the
deadliest disasters on record, leading to the loss of more
than 200,000 lives across fourteen countries.
In the past 10 years alone, half of all ASEAN Member
States have experienced at least one flood event costing
over US$100 million;
In the past 20 years, four ASEAN Member States have
experienced catastrophic events costing at least
1 percent of GDP at 2009 value.
Trends and Predictions
1970-1979:
• 138 occurrences of disasters in Southeast Asia in the period 1970–1979;
2000–2009:
• Occurrences of disaster reached 508, an increase of 368 percent since the
1970s.
Emerging Trend:
• There will be almost 1,000 occurrences of disaster in the next decade, or an
average of about 100 disasters per year.
Regional coordination and international partnerships in the context of
supporting national capacities emerging regional response capacities
INNOVATION: REGIONAL
COORDINATION MECHANISM AND THE
NEW PARTNERSHIP ARCHITECTURE
Legal, Policy and Action Framework
• ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency
Response (AADMER)
– ratified by all ten ASEAN Member States and entered into force on 24
December 2009
– affirms ASEAN’s commitment to the Hyogo Framework of Action (HFA)
– First legally-binding HFA-related instrument in the world.
• AADMER is a proactive regional framework for cooperation,
coordination, technical assistance and resource mobilisation in all
aspects of disaster risk reduction and disaster management.
• Bound by this legal agreement, Member States have developed the
AADMER Work Programme for 2010-2015, which translates the
legal agreement into concrete actions and initiatives..
• ASEAN has since started implementing this comprehensive Work
Programme since it was adopted in March 2010.
Supporting Instruments
• Related instruments to implement the AADMER
– the ASEAN Standard Operating Procedure for Regional
Standby Arrangements and Coordination of Joint
Disaster Relief and Emergency Response Operations
(SASOP)
– AADMER Work Programme 2010–2015
– Emergency Risk Assessment Team (ERAT)
– ASEAN Humanitarian Assistance (AHA) Centre
Agreement approved on 17 November 2011, while
provisionally operational since early 2011.
The AHA Centre and Principles of
Assistance and Coordination
• AADMER calls for the ASEAN Co-ordinating Centre for Humanitarian
Assistance on Disaster Management—the AHA Centre—to facilitate
cooperation and coordination among parties.
• AHA Centre Role: Article 20 states that the AHA Centre should
facilitate coordination and cooperation with other emergency
response mechanisms that operate already in the region, such as
the UN system, international NGOs; and the Red Cross and Red
Crescent organizations.
• National Sovereignty:
– Assistance can be deployed only at the request of the affected
country.
– When a disaster is likely to affect other Member State(s), however, the
affected country is expected to respond promptly to a request for
information sought by other Member States that are or may be
affected by the disaster.
Operationalising AADMER
 AADMER Work Programme (2010-2015) was
endorsed in March 2010 in Singapore
 There are two phases of implementation:
 Phase 1 (2010-2012)
 Phase 2 (2013-2015)
 ACDM has also identified 14 flagship
programmes to be implemented as priority
activities in Phase 1 implementation
AADMER Work Programme (2010-2015)
Introduction and Guiding Principle
STRATEGIC
COMPONENTS
Risk Assessment,
Monitoring and
Early Warning
Preparedness and
Response
Operationalising the AADMER into
concrete outputs and activities
Prevention
and Mitigation
Recovery
Institutionalisation of AADMER
Partnership
BUILDING
BLOCKS
Resource Mobilisation
Information Management and Comm. Tech.
Outreach and Mainstreaming
Training and Knowledge Management
Monitoring and Evaluation
Endorsed by the ASEAN Committee on
Disaster Management in March 2010
as a rolling plan
BUILDING DISASTER RESILIENCE IN ASEAN
Regional efforts: a force multiplier
• Emphasis on initiatives that are regional in nature
• Build on and add value to national initiatives
• Espouse efforts that synergise existing networks and
potential partnerships with all stakeholders
• Recognise contributions of various groups of
stakeholders, including vulnerable groups
• Encourage linkages with other thematic programmes
in ASEAN, promote multi-sectoral approach
BUILDING DISASTER RESILIENCE IN ASEAN
Partnerships: Shared Visions
• ASEAN is on the move to attain the common
vision of disaster resilient nations and safer
communities by 2015, even as the risks and
challenges posed by the impacts of global climate
change and natural disasters remain alarming.
• To realise this vision, ASEAN and partners are
accelerating the efforts to strengthen our
regional capacity and capability to deal with
various kinds of natural and human-induced
disasters.
Partnerships: Areas of Interest
Partners
Area of Interest
New Zealand Support for the AHA Centre capacity-building
Japan
Mobilising support, including experts for AHA Centre, and
supporting various components in the AADMER Work
Programme, in particular in risk assessment, monitoring,
ICT, and logistics system.
United States Support in all-hazard disaster monitoring and response
system, the ASEAN standby arrangements database, and
further support to the AHA Centre.
EC
Support through the APG as well as announced its 4 million
READI facility (launched on 12 September 2011) that also
identifies disaster management as one of the priority areas.
Australia
AUD2,080,000 contribution to the AADMER Work
Programme through the Cooperation Arrangement in 2010
and the new amendment in 2011
ASEAN-UN Partnership: Strategic Plan
• Incorporates
– Ongoing and potential activities,
– Follow-up actions required by the ASEAN-UN Leaders under the 2010 Joint
Declaration on ASEAN-UN Collaboration in Disaster Management.
• Includes
– Operational issues and capacity-building issues prioritised in the AADMER
Work Programme (2010-2015) including the establishment of the AHA
Centre.
– Establishment of a disaster emergency response logistic system through
collaboration with the WFP; capacity building for the ASEAN-Emergency
Rapid Assessment Team (ERAT) through collaboration with UN OCHA;
– Road map on disaster risk assessment
– Regional strategy for disaster risk financing and insurance in collaboration
with the UNISDR.
ASEAN-UN Partnership
Areas of Key Challenges:
• Roles of OCHA and ASEAN NDMs
• Interface and coordination points between the ASEANEmergency Rapid Assessment Team (ERAT) and the United
Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) Team
in the rapid assessment stage;
• Interface and coordination points between the newlyestablished AHA Centre and the overall UN’s humanitarian
response systems in the ASEAN region;
• Civil-military coordination;
• Role of the ASEAN Secretary-General as the ASEAN
Humanitarian Assistance Coordinator in relation to the role of
the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator)
Role of disaster management and humanitarian assistance in the shape of ASEAN
centrality, integration and community building
LOOKING FORWARD: DISASTER
MANAGEMENT AND ASEAN
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Part of a Global Disaster Management
System
• A regional mechanism in place: AADMER, the Work
Programme and AHA Centre, and established networks of
partnerships within and beyond the region with other
humanitarian actors and organisations.
• ASEAN Leaders with disaster management in their annual
agenda and in dialogue with our external partners.
• A new perspective on resiliency in disaster preparedness and
humanitarian interventions
• ASEAN’s Member States see regional mechanisms as their first
choice of additional response to the countries’ internal assets
and capacities
An Integral Process of
Community Building
• Strengthening regional mechanisms and making sure
that ASEAN countries collectively could help each other
and respond to disasters within the region in a more
efficient and collaborative manner.
• Maintaining people-centred approach of the ASEAN
Charter and the inclusive approach of AADMER
– engaging more elements of the society in the region to
make AADMER into a reality.
– Innovative partnerships being envisioned by the ACDM,
including the networking with the civil society (through the
APG), scientists and think tanks (such as the ASEAN
Earthquake Model partners) and the private sector
(through the risk financing initiatives).
Maintaining ASEAN Centrality in
Partnership Strategy
• Widening engagements and increasing
partnerships with networks beyond the region
– Regional communities of practice and knowledge
networks
– Direct network of ASEAN Dialogue Partners through
the East Asia Summit (EAS) and the ASEAN Regional
Forum (ARF)
– Other regional organisations and other networks of
partners and clusters of organisations
A Final Word:
Redefining Regional Resilience
• Roles of traditional global partners, e.g., OCHA, Red Cross,
WFP, UNICEF
• Balancing regional support mechanism’s operational and
supportive roles, allowing the governments and regional
organisations to take lead roles.
• Preparing for and adopting to risks
– Community-building through regional coordination and crosssectoral coordination
– Multi-stakeholder partnership
– Inter-regional partnership
– Disaster risk financing and insurance
• Disaster Risk Reduction as Sustainable Development
– Accelerating recovery and rehabilitation
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