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Red Cross Red Crescent Doha Dialogue on Migration 2014 | 15-17 June 2014 | Doha, Qatar
2014-06-15 08:00 - 2014-06-17 17:00 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
The first Red Cross Red Crescent Doha Dialogue 2014 in Doha, Qatar, took place on 15-17 June 2014.
The dialogue is a unique opportunity to gather with Red Cross Red Crescent partners from the Middle East and North Africa, Southeast Asia and South Asia, in order to strengthen our collaboration as the world’s largest humanitarian network to address the current challenges of labour migration and expatriate workers.
The Dialogue was also be a main occasion for the Red Cross Red (RCRC) Crescent to position itself among key external actors, including government representatives, international organisations, the United Nations, foundations, academics and non-governmental organisations, who are equally committed and willing to engage with us as partners on this issue.
Specific objectives include:

RCRC Cooperation platform workshop: 15 June 2014

Establish a RCRC cross-regional platform for cooperation on labour migration between the Middle-East and North Africa region and Asia Pacific as key regions for departure and destination. This includes evaluating RCRC migration strategies and recommendations from the RCRC statutory meetings, identifying gaps and opportunities in our humanitarian services, as well as integrating a stronger focus on gender and aligning to global humanitarian diplomacy initiatives.

Launch of the RCRC Dialogue: 16-17 June 2014

Together with our external partners (the International Organisation for Migration, the International Labour Organisation, UN Women, INGO, NGOs, Migrant’s associations, Qatar Foundation, University of Qatar, the Kofi Annan Foundation and the Ministry of Labour in Qatar), the Dialogue aims to position the Red Cross Red Crescent as a key actor on labour migration and expatriate workers, and strengthen inter-regional collaboration to address its humanitarian challenges.
For further questions and information, please visit the website at http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/migration/

Related documents:

Concept note
Fact Sheet on Migrant Domestic Workers
Labour Migration and Protection Challenges
Red Cross Red Crescent Migration Initiative
Regional Migration Networks (Mechanisms and Rules)

Outcome Document:

RCRC Doha Dialogue Outcomes (Commitments)

11th Annual Southeast Asia Red Cross and Red Crescent Leadership Meeting | March 2014 | Singapore
2014-03-24 08:00 - 2014-03-26 17:00
The Southeast Asia Red Cross Red Crescent Leaders convened in the 11th Leadership Meeting in Singapore, on 24 – 26 March 2014, to discuss issues of common concern and to enhance cooperation within the RCRC Movement and to forge common approaches to challenges in the Southeast region, in addition to follow up on the discussions in the previous Leadership meeting (10th Annual Meeting in Luang Prabang) regarding increasing the effectiveness of the regional response mechanisms.
Agenda
Follow up on the 10th Annual Leadership meeting in Luang Prabang:

Message from Asia Pacific Zone Director on gender mainstreaming
Minutes of the meeting and action points
Annual TOR of SEA Leaders Meeting

Follow up on the 9th Annual Leadership meeting:

Minutes of the meeting and action points
Terms of Reference: Regional Disaster Management Committee, Youth-OD, Health, Annual SEA Leaders Meeting

Engaging ICRC:

Strengthening relationship between ICRC and National Societies by Pak Budi Adiputro, Secretary General of PMI
Cooperation between ICRC and National Societies (and their Federation) in Southeast Asia by Alain Aeschlimann, Head of Operations East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, ICRC

Humanitarian Ambition for the 21st Century – Challenge for Southeast Asia by Alain Aeschlimann, Head of Operations East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, ICRC
Partnership with ASEAN:

Rationale for a Cooperation Framework between ASEAN and the region’s National Society
Cooperation Framework between IFRC and ASEAN DRAFT | related Letter from IFRC to ASEAN
Updates on ASEAN/IFRC Cooperation Framework update on the signing process
Contact list – Committee of Permanent Representative to ASEAN | National Secretariat to ASEAN

Working group (Health, National Society Development, and Regional Disaster Management Committee (RDMC)) reports:

Health: Working group summary | Report
National Society Development: Working group summary | Report
Regional Disaster Management Committee: Working group summary | Report

Asia Pacific Fundraising Network (APFN) updates:

APFN 2012 annual report | APFN 2013 plan of action | APFN update
Briefing with Microsoft | Briefing with Zurich Insurance
Corporate partnership manual
Due diligence assessment procedure for corporate partnership
Federation wide resource mobilization strategy – implementation update
APFN’s report on Thai Red Cross campaign visit

Framework for strengthening National Society and IFRC’s role in Southeast Asia:

IFRC Framework for development (covers OCAC, Federation-wide databank & reporting, Learning and knowledge sharing network, Bridging the digital divide, youth policy and strategy, statutory contribution)
Cambodian Red Cross branches and sub-branches development | Report on branches categorization
IMPACT training calendar and training request
Youth and National Society Development Southeast Asia mapping
Learning and knowledge sharing | IFRC learning platform

Guidance for General Assembly and Council of Delegates:

ICRC and IFRC presentation on Council of Delegates 2013
Council of Delegates draft agenda
Draft provisional agenda 19th session of the General Assembly 2013
Information to all National Society presidents on General Assembly 2013
Information note on Henry Davison Award

IHL and Disaster Law relevance in Southeast Asia:

31st International Conference on Progress in Implementation of the IDRL guidelines
Humanitarian diplomacy guidance note
IFRC and ICRC IDRL IHL presentation
Law and legal issues in international disaster response: a desk study

Principles and Rules for Disaster Relief:

Principles and Rules for Red Cross and Red Crescent Disaster Relief Newsletter No.2 (Dec 2012)
Principles and Rules for Disaster Relief – Consultation and Revision – Work plan 2012-2013
Revision of the Principles and Rules for Red Cross Red Crescent Disaster Relief (Humanitarian Assistance) | Background to the revision

Overview from Southeast Asia Regional Delegation:

Southeast Asia Regional Delegation Overview | Organogram
Community Safety and Resilience Unit Concept Note
National Society Development Concept Note
Communications and Advocacy Concept Note
Global Road Safety Partnership with Southeast Asia National Societies 2012 | Road Safety Advocacy Project overview
Beneficiary communications in Southeast Asia: Overview of achievements | Communication and advocacy list of products
Southeast Asia Humanitarian Overview
Southeast Asia Leaders Key Outcomes Asia Pacific Forum 2012

Southeast Asia Regional Delegation and National Societies plans and budgets

Southeast Asia Regional Office: Long Term Planning Framework (LTPF) 2012-2015 | Development Operational Plan (DOP) 2013 | Personnel plans 2013 | Financial overview 2013 | Funding plan
Southeast Asia National Societies planning documents:

Cambodia DOP | LTPF
Indonesia DOP | LTPF
Myanmar DOP | LTPF
Philippines DOP | LTPF
Timor Leste DOP | LTPF
Vietnam DOP | LTPF

Southeast Asia Regional Delegation (SEARD) 2013 event list: SEARD event matrix | ICRC event list | Southeast Asia workshops

Practitioners Workshop 2013 | 13-14 November 2013 | Bangkok, Thailand
2013-11-13 08:00 - 2013-11-14 17:00
The 7th Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Practitioners Workshop 2013 was held during 13 – 14 November 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand. This event was organized by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), South-East Asia Regional Delegation and supported by the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection.
The workshop aims to understand and identify the good practices, lessons learned, gaps, skills, challenges, tools and methods and share experiences in community-based risk reduction initiatives to enhance integrated community-based programming. It also include identification of inclusive areas and approaches toward community resilience linking the grass roots with national, regional and global level initiatives.

Report: Disaster Risk Reduction Practitioner Workshop

Pictures and presentations of this workshop are also shared on the storify site.

Regional Health Technical Working Group Meeting 2013 | 28-29 October 2013 | Bangkok, Thailand
2013-10-28 08:00 - 2013-10-29 17:00
The Regional Health Technical Working Group Meeting is held from 28 – 29 October 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand.
The objectives of this meeting are:

To strengthen regional cooperation and collaboration through information sharing and lessons learned.
To finalize Terms of References (ToR) for Regional Health Technical Working group.
To review of the existing Regional Road Map; translate the road map to country context.
To explore possibilities to improve community and institutional capacity for recognition, control and prevention of influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia region.

The South East Asia Regional Delegation has invited Heal of Health Department of each National Society to attend this event.

The meeting documents are shown by the order on Agenda.

Day 1: 28 October 2013

Global and AP Zone health updates
Update from Regional CSR Forum
Updates from CSRU
Network updates: ART network
Network update: VNRBD network
CBHFA
WASH
Communication and Advocacy at different levels (with Community, stakeholders, leadership, Government)
Basic steps for HD engagement
Updates from each National Society about progress made since the last RHM (2012)

Cambodian Red Cross: Health and Care in the Community
Indonesian Red Cross (PMI): presentation 2013
Lao Red Cross: Health activities 2012
Myanmar Red Cross: Regional Health Meeting
Philippine Red Cross: presentation
Singapore Red Cross: Regional Health Meeting 2013
Thai Red Cross: Regional Health Meeting presentation and First Aid & Health Care Training Center
Timor Leste Red Cross (CVTL): Health Program

Day 2: 29 October 2013

Evolution of Road Map for Regional Health Working Group 2013
Translation of Regional Road Map into PMI National Context
Pandemic:

Influenza Pandemic: A Threats to Regional and National Health and Development
Group work part 1
Group work part 2

RCRC-ECHO Coordination Meeting 2013 | 9 August 2013 | Bangkok, Thailand
2013-08-09 08:00 - 17:00
The RCRC – ECHO Coordination Meeting 2013 was held on 9 August 2013 in Bangkok. The key objective of this meeting was to reflect on the current partnerships within the RCRC family and between the RCRC family and ECHO, identify and share good practices, look at opportunities and find best ways to move forward towards much strong partnerships with ECHO.

The meeting was captured in Storify at this link: https://storify.com/SM4Resilience/red-cross-red-crescent-echo-coordination-meeting

Documents & Presentations
1. Agenda
2. ECHO Programming Updates both at Global and Regional Levels, presented by Amelie Yan Gouiffes – ECHO DRR Advisor
3. Finnish Red Cross’s interventions in Asia, presented by Marko Korhonen – Regional Representative
4. The Netherlands Red Cross – ECHO/DIPECHO Partnership in Southeast Asia, presented by Gen R. De Jesus – NLRC Country Representative, Philippines
5. VNRC’s key achievement supported by PNSs through DIPECHO funding decisions, presented by Marta Alejano – Spanish RC Representative, Vietnam
6. Lao RC’s key achievement supported by French RC through DIPECHO funding decisions and future plans, presented by David Boisson – French RC Country Representative, Lao PDR
7. IFRC-DIPECHO Regional Initiative in South East Asia, presented by Nguyen Hung Ha – DIPECHO Project Manager, IFRC Bangkok

Building Urban Resilience Workshop | 30-31 July 2016 | Bangkok, Thailand
2013-07-30 08:00 - 2013-07-31 17:00
Panel discussion on what is urban resilience and what is happening across the region
Panel discussion on what is urban resilience and what is happening across the region
The workshop brought together more than 40 participants from eight Red Cross/Red Crescent (RC/RC) National Societies as well as government counterpart agencies and partner organizations to share learning and insights on building disaster preparedness and resilience in urban settings in Asia.
The workshop looked at existing experience within the RC/RC and at where national societies want to be in the future in supporting communities to achieve resilience in urban settings. Many of the points raised in the workshop were in line with recent studies on this topic in Asia and elsewhere by the RC/RC and other organizations.
The workshop built on lessons from a related event held in Arusha, Tanzania in February 2013. will be followed by a third workshop in Latin America in September 2013. The workshop itself was captured live on Storify at https://storify.com/SM4Resilience/building-urban-resilience-july-30th-31st-2013

Conclusions of the workshop include:

Integrated approaches are needed across sectors to reduce duplication, maximize efficiencies, and benefit from community synergies that strengthen resilience.
It is too ambitious to assume the RC/RC can or do it alone to support community resilience in isolation from other partners that can help to bring a focus on such areas as economic and investment, infrastructure, and business continuity.
Effective strategies are needed to ensure that the RC/RC does not spread itself too thin and can focus on its core strengths in community programming. The use of coalitions at local, national, and global levels can help ensure effective partnering for community service delivery, advocacy, and resource mobilization.

See also: Report of the workshop

ASEAN Regional Forum Disaster Relief Exercise (ARF DiREx) 2013 | 7-11 May 2013 | Cha-am, Thailand
2013-05-07 08:00 - 2013-05-11 17:00
In 2013, the ARF Ministers welcomed Thailand and the Republic of Korea as co-chair of the ARF Disaster-Relief Exercise (ARF DiREx), held in Cha-am, Phetburi Province in Thailand on 7-11 May 2013.

The ARF DiREx 2013 had the participation of over 26 countries, one regional grouping, and regional and international organizations such as the ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre), the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

See the relevant documents:

Programme (or agenda)
Field training exercise Scenarios
Oslo Guidelines (Guidelines on the use of foreign military and civil defense assets in disaster relief 2007)

See also:

ARF DiREx 2015 in Kedah and Perlis in Malaysia
ARF DiREx 2011 in Manado, Indonesia

Climate Change, DRR and Early Warning Early Action | 26 - 29 March 2013 | Bangkok, Thailand
2013-03-26 08:00 - 2013-03-29 17:00
Summary Report on the “Regional Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Early Warning and Early Action (EWEA)”, 26-29 March, Bangkok

Annex 1: Process Report: Regional workshop on Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Early Warning Early Action 26 – 29 March 2013, Bangkok
Annex 2: Participants List

Annex 3: Diarrhoea Prevention

Annex 4: Cambodian Red Cross Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Program – integration of climate smart components | Village: Preak Phdau | Commune: Kampong Trabeak | District: Kampong Trabaek | Province: Prey Veng

Annex 5: Entry Points

10th South-East Asia Red Cross and Red Crescent Meeting | 25 March 2013 | Lao PDR
2013-03-25 08:00 - 17:00
This event brings together Red Cross and Red Crescent leaders from 11 South-East Asia (SEA) National Societies, representatives of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The meeting serves as a platform to share experience and to discuss regional issues of interest to the Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement.
The purpose of the meeting is to:
Discuss Movement policy and issues of Red Cross and Red Crescent work among the National Societies, IFRC and ICRC, and agree on appropriate action and follow up.
Take stock of strategic direction progress for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and to develop and implement key actions through regional cooperation and networking among the National Societies, IFRC and ICRC.
Ensure that the regional National Society networks and forums are accountable for the RCRC South-East Asia leaders meeting.
Build stronger relationships and to take advantage of the strength of working together.
Increase performance levels and effectiveness of regional RCRC efforts.
Go beyond networking for better cooperation and coordination.
This year, we look forward to discussing the progress of our work in the region, while also acknowledging the current and future challenges we face in a fast-changing environment. We aim to address our progress and overall strategic direction as part of the larger Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. And we aim to build upon the existing strong regional cooperation, in order to increase the performance and effectiveness of our work.
Please enjoy the wide range of documents that are available for your information on this site, and do not hesitate to contact the IFRC South-East Asia regional delegation or Lao Red Cross if you have further questions. We look forward to seeing you on the 25 March 2013.

Promoting Psychosocial Support and Psychological Recoveries
2013-02-04 08:00 - 2013-02-05 17:00
The Regional Conference on Promoting Psychosocial Support and Psychological Recovery in Emergencies in Asia was organized by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) in collaboration with the Center for Crisis Psychology, Bergen, Norway.

Photos

Supported by the Royal Norwegian Government

16th Bangkok International Symposium on HIV Medicine
2013-01-16 08:00 - 2013-01-18 17:00
These files were uploaded from the CD provided by

the HIV Netherlands AustraliaThailand Research Collaboration
104 Rathchadumri Road

Pathumwan
Bangkok 1330
Thailand

Contacts
Phone: +662 652 3040
Fax +662 252 5779

Programme (the programme is saved as an html file)

Documentation from January 16, 2013
Documentation from January 17, 2013
Documentation from January 18, 2013

Any documentation or information borrowed/duplicated should be credited back to HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration at all times.

ASEAN Pandemic Preparedness 2013 | 9-11 January 2013 | Philippines
2013-01-09 08:00 - 2013-01-11 17:00
Click on the link for all documentation from the Pandemics as Threats to Regional and National Security High Level Cross Sectoral Consultation: Advancing the ASEAN “Regional Multisectoral Pandemic Preparedness Strategic Framework”. 9-11 January 2013, Manila, Philippines.

Click: HERE – for Biographies, Opening Remarks, Presentations, Resources, Working Group Outputs

Regional Workshop on Climate Services at National Level | October 2012 | Bangkok, Thailand
2012-10-08 08:00 - 2012-10-10 17:00
Regional Workshop on Climate Services at National Level for the Least Developed Countries in Asia. October 2012.
Programme
Final Report

ASEAN Regional Forum Disaster Relief Exercise (ARF DiREx) 2011 | 15-19 March 2011 | Manado, Indonesia
2011-03-15 08:00 - 2011-03-19 17:00
The ASEAN Regional Forum Disaster Relief Exercise (ARF DiREx) was held in Manado, Indonesia, on 15-19 March 2011. The ARF DiREx was co-chaired by Indonesia and Japan. The representatives of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre), United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), United Nations Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and ASEAN Secretariat were also present. Total number of participants was 4,334.

Three main activities were conducted during the ARF DiREx:

Table Top Exercise (TTX),
Field Training Exercise (FTX),
Humanitarian Civic Action (HCA).

The TTX was based on a hypothetical scenario of earthquake followed by tsunami which hit the area of Wori District, North Sulawesi. The participants of the TTX were guided by a set of questions that were structured in four exercise moves, namely:

initial response,
disaster plus 2-4 days,
disaster plus 5-7 days and
disaster plus 2-4 weeks.

FTX consisted of an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR), Land Operations, Maritime Operations, Air Operations.

HCA consisted of a Medical Civic Action Programme (MEDCAP) and Engineering Civic Action Programme (ENCAP). MEDCAP projects included General Practice, Dental, Cataract, Circumcision, Family Planning, Nutrition Supplement and Minor Surgery, while ENCAP projects include conducting reconstruction of dirt roads, repairs of water sanitation facilities.

For more information, see the Co- Chairs’ Summary Report: ASEAN Regional Forum Disaster Relief Exercise (ARF DiRex) 2011 Manado, Indonesia
See also:

ARF DiREx 2013
ARF DiREx 2015
