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Exercise. Why should I stay awake ?. National Facilitation and Regulation of International Disaster Assistance Pacific Humanitarian Team, Workshop 2011 Helga-Bára Bragadóttir International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Pacific Region Office.

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  1. Exercise

  2. Why should I stay awake ?

  3. National Facilitation and Regulation of International Disaster Assistance Pacific Humanitarian Team, Workshop 2011 Helga-Bára BragadóttirInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Pacific Region Office

  4. Why legal preparedness for international disaster response? • More frequent and larger natural disasters • More and different international responders • Absence of procedure to regulate the increasingly complex context

  5. Research shows that the lack of legal preparedness hampers int’l relief Research • 27 legal casestudies • Globalsurvey • Regional forums • … and ongoing research Findings • Unnecessary delays and costs • Unnecessary relief items, poor coordination, lack of respect

  6. Exercise

  7. Disaster response, everyone's business ? • A disaster can be too big for national authorities and organisations to respond to it. In these cases outside help is needed. • At your tables, quickly list the different types of people, relief items and tools that would maybe be brought into the country

  8. Disaster response, everyone's business ? • A disaster can be too big for national authorities and organisations to respond to it. In these cases outside help is needed. • At your tables, quickly list the different types of people, relief items and tools that would maybe be brought into the country • What departments are in charge of these issues normally ?

  9. It´s everyone's business - immigration • Pacific Immigration Directors Conference – Policy brief

  10. It´s everyone's business – anecdotes • Some examples: • Ad hoc procedures for clearing relief goods quickly through customs. • Non-registered foreign actors bringing in relief goods • Lack of adherence to international quality and accountability standards by relief providers • Difficulties bringing in telecommunications equipment, held up in customs awaiting clearance

  11. Tools

  12. Guidelines on laws, rules, polices • Adopted by consensus by the state parties to the Geneva Conventions in 2007 • Compile existing international norms and best practice • Recommendations to governments on how to prepare domestic laws and procedures for international assistance

  13. National studies on laws, rules, policies • Countries have used the guidelines to review their national arrangements to facilitate and regulate foreign disaster response.

  14. Model act to improve laws, rules, policies • Some states will require new legislation • Many requests from governments and National Societies for model language • While model acts have many drawbacks, they can be a good starting point for discussion

  15. How does this all link with us, the Pacific Humanitarian Team ???

  16. Purpose of Clusters, TORs, section 3.1. • “...clusters aims to ensure increased preparedness of the humanitarian team and national authorities in the region, including preparedness related to domestic laws, rules and policies that govern foreign disaster response.”

  17. And now what ???

  18. And finally: Number of socks : _____

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