Welcome to the Second Edition of the Regional Consultative Group (RCG) on Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination for Asia and the Pacific Newsletter.
We are glad to share the latest updates in relation to the RCG as well as other UN-CMCoord projects in the Asia-Pacific region:
Second Session of the Regional Consultative Group (RCG) on Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination for Asia and the Pacific;
UN-CMCoord Course for the Pacific;
Updates on the development of Common Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Standards.
REGIONAL CONSULTATIVE GROUP (RCG)
The Regional Consultative Group on Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination (RCG) for Asia and the Pacific was formed to act as a regional forum that brings together humanitarian, civilian and military actors involved in disaster response preparedness planning and disaster response, including aspects related to the field of humanitarian civil-military coordination and the use of foreign military assets.
The First Session of the RCG (December 2015) resulted in a number of key outcomes, summarized in the report available on Humanitarian Response.info. As RCG chair for 2016, the Government of the Philippines, with the support of the RCG Secretariat, is organizing the Second Session of the RCG that will take place on 11-12 October 2016 at the UN Building in Bangkok, Thailand. The event will have the following objectives:
a) To provide an update on the work plans that were agreed during the First Session of the RCG to strengthen the coordination of operational planning between civilian and military actors in each of the RCG focus countries (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Myanmar and the Philippines).
b) To outline the relevance for the Asia-Pacific region of flagship UN-CMCoord events (Annual Meeting of the UN-CMCoord Global Consultative Group - Geneva, February 2016; UNCMCoord side event at the World Humanitarian Summit - Istanbul, May 2016).
c) To discuss new UN-CMCoord projects such as the development of Common Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Standards, the Key Immediate Needs (KIN) methodology, the RCG publications.