- Year: 2023
- Budget: 7,200,000.00 €
- Location: Indonesia
- Sector: Resilience, Peace, Security
- Partner: ASEAN COORDINATING CENTRE FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT (AHA Centre)
ASEAN, as an intergovernmental organisation, has made significant efforts in responding to the multifaceted challenges caused by disasters in social, economic, political, and security domains, both within and outside the region.
The Intervention is funded under the EU Financing Decision ‘Integrated Programme in Enhancing the Capacity of AHA Centre and ASEAN Emergency Response Mechanisms’. It aims to contribute to the goal of the Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) by achieving a substantial reduction of disaster losses in lives and in economic, social, physical, and environmental assets of ASEAN member states (AMS), and by jointly responding to disaster emergencies through concerted national efforts and intensified regional and international cooperation.
The ‘EU Support to AHA Centre’ Programme comprises two interrelated components, each corresponding to one of the Programme’s specific objectives: (i) Strengthened capacity and sustainability of AHA Centre to achieve operational excellence in disaster monitoring and emergency response, in line with the AHA Centre Strategic Work Plan 2020, and (ii) Enhanced mechanisms for ASEAN Leadership to Respond-As-One, through excellence and innovation in disaster management.
The assessed intervention was launched to enable ASEAN and the EU to further strengthen their partnership in disaster management and disaster risk reduction through a longer-term sustained institutional collaborative effort, in line with their commitments and obligations at the global level. The focus of the Intervention is on strengthening the capacity of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre), the counterpart in ASEAN to the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) under the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO). The Intervention is implemented by the AHA Centre.