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BACKGROUND Building upon the outcomes of the Asia-Pacific series of Conferences on Military Assistance to Disaster Relief Operations (APC-MADRO), the ASEAN-U.S. Informal Defence Forum, held in Hawaii in April 2014, highlighted the need for greater engagement and…

Background The Asia-Pacific series of Conferences on Military Assistance to Disaster Relief Operations (APC-MADRO) that took place over a five-year period1, were organized with the aim of developing collaborative Guidelines to assist the planning of foreign military…

First Session of the RCG The First Session of the Regional Consultative Group is scheduled to take place on 3-4 December 2015 at the United Nations Building, Rajadamnern Avenue, Bangkok, Thailand. The objectives of the First Session of…

In this month’s issue This edition of the newsletter focuses on the civil- military coordination structure that was activated as part of the response to the Nepal earthquake. The newsletter also focuses on the ARF DiREX 2015…

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to welcome you today to the round table on regional civil-military coordination in disasters. To our knowledge, this is the first such meeting in this region and I am happy…

The special feature of this edition of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited with Victoria Metcalfe, focuses on issues related to humanitarian civil– military coordination. In the leading article, Simone Haysom sets out the rationale for civil–military coordination, and the…

Summary Note The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection of the European Commission (DG ECHO) organised a one-day roundtable meeting on 1 March 2012.…

KABUL, 8 January (IRIN) - Following a series of attacks on UN and NGO aid workers in the south and east of the country, the US-led coalition in Kabul said it planned to set up more bases to provide…