ASEAN Vision on Disaster Management 2025

This strategic policy document outlines the directions that may be considered by ASEAN, and identifies the key areas to move the implementation of AADMER forward to a people-centred, people-oriented, financially sustainable, and networked approach from 2015 to 2025.

Reading guide questions:

• What are the three mutually-inclusive strategic elements of the vision?

• What types of disasters should ASEAN respond to?

AADMER Work Programme 2021 - 2025

AADMER Work Programme outlines a detailed structure of activities of the region’s disaster management priorities over five-year periods (2021-2025)

In the next five (5) years, the AADMER will be carried out through five (5) priority programmes that reflect its major provisions. These priority programmes are:

1. Risk Assessment and Monitoring (RAM)
2. Prevention and Mitigation (P&M)
3. Preparedness and Response (P&R)
4. Resilient Recovery (RR)
5. Global Leadership (GL)
   
   

The three ACDM Working Groups will oversee the implementation of the 15 sub-priorities, 30 outcomes and 117 outputs that were developed to cover strategic areas that will be pursued under all priority programmes.

Reading guide questions:

• What are the key outputs in each of the Priority Programmes?

• In which priority programme does your own area of work (job) align with? 

SASOP provides:

(i) the guides and templates to initiate the establishment of the ASEAN Standby Arrangements for Disaster Relief and Emergency Response; 

(ii) the procedures for joint disaster relief and emergency response operations; 

(iii) the procedures for the facilitation and utilisation of military and civilian assets and capacities, and;

(iv) the methodology for the periodic conduct of the ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response Simulation Exercises (ARDEX) which shall test the effectiveness of these procedures.

Reading guide questions:

• What are the different forms through which ASEAN Member States communicate about impending disasters, requests and offers of assistance?

• What are Standby Arrangements? Are they obligatory or voluntary?

ASEAN Joint Disaster Response Plan

The AJDRP is a plan to provide a common framework to deliver a timely, at-scale and joint response through mobilisation of required assets and capacities.

Reading guide questions:

• Who can be involved in the ASEAN joint disaster response?

• What are the three scenarios for catastrophic disasters in ASEAN? Why are these relevant to all ASEAN Member States?

• What are the types of resources or modules that ASEAN should prepare for? 

Operationalising One ASEAN One Response

One ASEAN One Response is about ASEAN responding to disasters in the region and outside the region as one – that is, having as many relevant stakeholders involved to achieve the envisioned speed, scale and solidarity. It is an open and inclusive platform using ASEAN’s mechanisms at its core.

Reading guide questions:

• What are the three objectives of One ASEAN One Response?

• How will these objectives be measured? 

Handbook of the ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response Simulation Exercise (ARDEX)

ARDEX or the ASEAN Regional DIsaster Emergency Simulation Exercise is an regular full-scale simulation exercise aimed at testing, practising, reviewing, and evaluating ASEAN's response and disaster management mechanisms. Read this guide to obtain a better understanding of the mechanisms and procedures as well as the role and significance of ARDEX in ASEAN's disaster management.