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Disaster Response in Southeast Asia: The ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Response and Emergency Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2016

Gabrielle SIMM
Gabrielle SIMM*
Affiliation:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Faculty of Law, [email protected]
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Abstract

Southeast Asia includes some of the states at greatest risk of disasters worldwide, and ASEAN has been at the forefront of using international law to attempt to co-operate in disaster risk reduction and response. The ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) is a regional treaty that has been hailed as among the world’s best practice: progressive, comprehensive, and, unusually for a disaster instrument, legally binding. This paper evaluates ASEAN’s responses to two mega-disasters: Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar in May 2008 and Super-typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda that hit the Philippines in November 2013. The paper aims further to investigate the role of non-state actors, such as civil society and the private sector, in institutionalizing and implementing AADMER.

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Asian Journal of International Law , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 116 - 142
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Footnotes

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Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Faculty of Law; Visiting Fellow, Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales Law. I acknowledge the excellent research assistance of Adrian Hizo, supported by a Macquarie University Faculty of Arts New Staff Grant in 2014. The research is informed by interviews with international organizations, NGOs, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies conducted in Geneva in 2014, and by speakers at a workshop on International Law and Disasters in the Asia Pacific region organized jointly by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Asia Pacific), Australian Red Cross, UTS and hosted by UNSW Law in Sydney in July 2015. Thanks to Ana Vrdoljak for comments on an earlier version.

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57. Ibid., preamble.

58. Ibid., art. 3(1).

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60. AADMER, art. 3(3).

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62. AADMER, art. 11(2).

63. Barber, supra note 61 at 17.

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67. AADMER, art. 3(4) and (5).

68. Ibid., art. 3(6).

69. Ibid., art. 4(1).

70. Ibid., art. 4(b)(c)(d).

71. Ibid., art. 5.

72. Ibid., art. 6.

73. Ibid., art. 8.

74. Ibid., art. 7: obligations subject to qualification “as appropriate”.

75. Ibid., art. 10.

76. Ibid., art. 11(2).

77. Ibid., art. 1(12) and (13).

78. Ibid., art. 1(1).

79. Ibid., art. 11(4) and (5).

80. Decision on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism, supra note 11, preamble and para. 1.

81. AADMER, art. 12.

82. Ibid., art. 12(3).

83. Ibid., art. 12(4).

84. UNOCHA, “Guidelines on the Use of Foreign Military and Civil Defence Assets in Disaster Relief (Oslo Guidelines)” (November 2007), online: UNOCHA <https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/Documents/Oslo%20Guidelines%20ENGLISH%20(November%202007).pdf>.

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88. Ibid., art. 12(1).

89. Ibid., arts. 13 and 14.

90. See for example, the Model Agreement Covering the Status of National Elements of the EADRU on Mission on the Territory of a Stricken Nation, in annex 4 of the Standing Operating Procedures for the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Unit (EADRU), online: NATO <http://www.nato.int/eadrcc/sop/sop.htm>.

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93. Ibid., annex.

94. Ibid.

95. Petz, supra note 26 at 13.

96. Ibid.

97. Ibid., at 29.

98. Humanitarian Futures Programme, “ECOWAS-ASEAN Exchange”, online: Humanitarian Futures Programme <http://www.humanitarianfutures.org/forewarn/ecowas-asean-exchange/>.

99. AADMER, art. 24.

100. AADMER Accomplishment Report, supra note 35 at 28–9.

101. AADMER, art. 24.

102. AADMER Accomplishment Report, supra note 35 at 5–6.

103. Ibid., at 12.

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107. AADMER Partnership Group, “Where We Work”, online: APG <http://www.aadmerpartnership.org>.

108. Carreon, supra note 106.

109. AADMER Evaluation Report 2013, supra note 18 at 15.

110. AADMER Accomplishment Report, supra note 35.

111. Ibid., at 23.

112. Ibid.

113. AADMER Evaluation Report 2013, supra note 18 at 12.

114. Ibid., at 8.

115. Ibid.

116. Petz, supra note 27 at 27.

117. See Alex ROBINSON, “Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Reflecting on Haiyan”; HelpAge, “Older People Disproportionately Affected by Typhoon Haiyan”; Save the Children, Plan, UNICEF, and World Vision, “After Yolanda: What Children Think, Need and Recommend”, online: AADMER Partnership Group <http://www.aadmerpartnership.org/>.

118. Barber, supra note 65.

119. Collins, supra note 19 at 150.

120. Barber, supra note 66 at 19; ASEAN Secretariat, “Weathering the Perfect Storm: Lessons Learnt on the ASEAN’s Response to the Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan” (2014), online: ASEAN <http://www.rcrc-resilience-southeastasia.org/document/weathering-the-perfect-storm/> at 7 [The Perfect Storm].

121. ASEAN Vision 2025, supra note 24 at para. 19.

122. AADMER Work Programme 2016–2020, supra note 25 at 46.

123. ASEAN Vision 2025, supra note 24 at para. 43.

124. Declaration on Institutionalising the Resilience of ASEAN and its Communities and Peoples to Disasters and Climate Change, 27 April 2015, online: ASEAN <http://www.asean.org/declaration-on-institutionalising-the-resilience-of-asean-and-its-communities-and-peoples-to-disasters-and-climate-change/> at para. 5.

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126. Tripartite Core Group, “Post Nargis Joint Assessment Report”, July 2008, online: Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction <https://www.gfdrr.org/sites/default/files/GFDRR_Myanmar_Post-Nargis_Joint_Assessment_2008_EN.pdf>.

127. ASEAN Secretariat, “Compassion in Action: The Story of the ASEAN-led Coordination in Myanmar” (1 August 2010), online: ASEAN <http://www.asean.org/?static_post=compassion-in-action-the-story-of-the-asean-led-coordination-in-myanmar-2> [Compassion in Action].

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130. Collins, supra note 19 at 139.

131. A Humanitarian Call, supra note 125 at 14.

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137. It was assisted on the ground by representatives of the World Food Programme, UNOCHA, and the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination team. See Compassion in Action, supra note 127 at 34–5.

138. ASEAN Secretariat, “ASEAN Emergency Rapid Assessment Team Mission Report, 9–18 May 2008: Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar”, online: ASEAN <http://www.asean.org/uploads/archive/21558.pdf> at para. 2.

139. Ibid., para. 1.

140. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 23 May 1969, 1155 U.N.T.S. 331 (entered into force 27 January 1980), art. 18(b).

141. Surin Pitsuwan, cited in Compassion in Action, supra note 127 at 38.

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144. See further Compassion in Action, supra note 127 at 33.

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199. I am grateful to an anonymous reviewer for this point.

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