This ASEAN Vision 2025 on Disaster Management is a regional policy document covering the period of 2016-2025. The policy document maps out the broad strategic direction that will guide the implementation of the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) towards 2025. The strategic policy document identifies the key areas to move the implementation of AADMER forward to a people-centred, people-oriented, financially sustainable, and networked approach by 2025. It outlines the Institutionalisation and Communications, Financing and Resource Mobilisation, and Partnerships and Innovations as the building blocks towards a disaster resilient ASEAN and a region that is well-placed to act comprehensively both within the region and further afield. The further institutionalisation of AADMER is a strategic element that identifies the need for a multi-layered and cross-sectoral governance approach. The role of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (the AHA Centre) as the main coordinating body for disaster management would be further strengthened. In terms of the strategic element on financial and resource mobilisation associated with the implementation of AADMER, one aspect to consider for the financial transformation strategy is to mandate the AHA Centre to further draw on diverse stakeholders as key partners in disaster management and emergency response. This would enable the AHA Centre to become self-sufficient in funding terms through a combination of national contributions and through access to finance from the multi-stakeholder environment of the public, private and people sectors ensuring its financial transformation by 2025. It identifies the role that small and medium-sized enterprises, micro-insurance, insurance pooling and capital markets can offer in the pursuit of a disaster-resilient region able to extend its expertise further afield by 2025. According to the document, by 2025, ASEAN would have engaged with the private sector to mainstream business continuity plans and business recovery plans across the private sector in ASEAN. The strategic element of partnerships and innovations focuses on partnerships and priorities innovative ways in which bodies responsible for implementing AADMER can work together with nontraditional partners for disaster management and emergency response. It highlights the strengths of partnering with entities at regional, national, and local levels in the public, and private sectors. It further identifies the potential roles of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (the AHA Centre) to become a network coordinator of regional centres for excellence in disaster leadership and management that can facilitate knowledge creation, policy analysis and training for the next generation of practitioners.
2016-01-01