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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance hosted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Supporting Humanitarian Action in Responding to Emergencies and Disasters (SHARED) course for U.S. Pacific Command personnel on Ford Island, March 16-19.
Michael Marx, senior civil-military coordination adviser from UNOCHA’s Headquarters in New York, and Ronaldo Reario, humanitarian affairs officer with the Training and Partnership Unit at the Geneva-based office, instructed the three-day course for nearly 30 participants. Additionally, the pair provided a Training of Trainers course to six Center staff members.
“This training is an outcome of a growing partnership between the Center and UNOCHA that will include co-facilitation of such courses as part of civil-military capacity building in the Indo-Asia-Pacific,” said Deputy Director Doug Wallace, CFE-DMHA.
The SHARED course instruction improves effectiveness of humanitarian action in natural disasters and complex emergencies where military forces will be present by informing military personnel of the differing characteristics and duties of the humanitarian community.
“(The course) gives participants the ability to understand the roles and responsibilities of other actors in a disaster or complex emergency environment,” said Reario, who led the creation of the SHARED course. “Each actor has different mandates, and different strengths and weaknesses. We increase the ability for them to work together with minimal friction.”
The course also covered the Oslo Guidelines, which outlines the use of foreign military and civil defense assets in disaster relief, and United Nations Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination (UN-CMCoord) course information.
“Having the SHARED course in Hawaii, and for our instructors to give the training, is an expression of the partnership between UNOCHA and the Center,” said Wallace. “A partnership that will increase effective civil-military cooperation in the region.”
This collaboration is in keeping with the spirit of a cooperative arrangement signed by CFE-DMHA and UNOCHA’s Civil-Military Coordination Section in December 2014.
| Date Taken: | 03.19.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.19.2015 22:31 |
| Story ID: | 157598 |
| Location: | PEARL HARBOR, HI, US |
| Hometown: | NEW YORK, NY, US |
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