(16-04-2013)
The 3rd ASEAN-Emergency Rapid
Assessment Team (ASEAN-ERAT) Induction Course wrapped this week, ending
an intensive seven-day-training in Singapore. “The ASEAN-ERAT was
established based on the need in the region. The primary objective of
the ASEAN-ERAT deployment is to support ASEAN Member States affected by
disasters in the initial phase of disasters, to conduct rapid
assessments, coordinate with local authorities for the deployment of
regional disaster management assets and provide logistics support to the
affected countries for receiving humanitarian goods and assistance to
the disaster affected areas”, said Ms. Adelina Kamal, Head of Disaster
Management and Humanitarian Assistance Division of the ASEAN
Secretariat.
Chief of Staff of Singapore Civil
Defence Force (SCDF), Senior Assistant Commissioner Jackson Lim
congratulated the 28 graduates from the ASEAN Member States and ASEAN
Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management
(AHA Centre). “Congratulations on your graduation. You have completed
the first step of joining ASEAN emergency responders. The real challenge
is now to convert your newly-gained skills and capacity to swift
disaster response when called upon, despite the uncertainties and
challenges in the initial phase of disasters,” says Mr. Jackson Lim.
During deployments on the ground,
ASEAN-ERAT members will not be there as individuals from different
organisations, but collectively as ASEAN, said Mr. Said Faisal, the
Executive Director of the AHA Centre. “Let’s raise that ASEAN flag high
and proud! We come together representing One Community of more than 600
million people in the region. Let’s ensure that whatever we are going to
do, we do it for the good of the affected nation,” said Mr. Faisal. He
further thanked the SCDF for their excellent support in organising and
providing trainers for the training course.
The ASEAN-ERAT team is composed of
experienced and trained individuals who have responded to disaster
incidents in the region. ASEAN-ERAT was established by the ASEAN
Committee on Disaster Management, which comprises heads of national
disaster management organisations in the ten ASEAN Member States.
ASEAN-ERAT is managed by the AHA Centre, which serves as the
coordination hub and centre point for mobilisation of resources to
disaster affected areas in the region. With the completion of the 3rd
Induction Course, ASEAN now has close to fifty ASEAN-ERAT members ready
to respond to major disasters in the ASEAN region.
The course was co-organised by the AHA
Centre and SCDF, with the support of the ASEAN Secretariat and the
Government of Australia. Other partners supporting the course were the
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN
OCHA), the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS), and the AADMER
Partnership Group (APG).
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