IASC Weekly Meeting on Civi Military Relations
Geneva
Meeting Documents
Briefing on Military Exercises in 2009 with a humanitarian component (NATO exercise, Asia-Pacific focused exercise, US-military sponsored exercise)
Each year OCHA's Civil Military Coordination Section (CMCS) and UN Humanitarian Civil Military Coordination (CMCoord) Officers worldwide, along with some other humanitarian organizations, are invited to attend series of military exercises to ensure that humanitarian scenarios included in such exercises are realistic and generate suitable activity within the military command chain. OCHA CMCoord staff are involved not only in the exercise phase itself, but also in the planning phase, to ensure that suitable material is included to educate the military personnel, influence military planning and gain visibility of humanitarian action with the ultimate aim of smoothing interaction between humanitarian and military actors in the field. Mr. Alan Butterfield and Mr. Frederik Wallenberg, OCHA's CMCS, will outline OCHA's involvement in these exercises, rational for such involvement and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such interaction.
Update on the proposed NATO Information Fusion Centre As part of its outreach strategy, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is developing what they term a Civil Military Fusion Centre (CMFC), which includes an information page entitled a Civil M