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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)

Tropical storm-affected individuals receive USAID/OFDA-provided hygiene kits and kitchen sets in the Philippines. (Photo by Lynn Marie Thomas, USAID). Relief operations following the May 2010 floods in Sri Lanka. (Courtesy of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society).

USAID/OFDA is the lead U.S. Government office for responding to natural and man-made disasters outside of the United States. Mandate: – Save lives Alleviate human suffering – Alleviate human suffering – Reduce the economic and social impact of disasters impact of disasters

A girl receives USAID/OFDA-provided relief supplies following the 2009 tropical storms in the Philippines. (Photo by Amber Callaway, USAID)

USAID/OFDA Fulfills Its Mandate Through: Disaster Response = 90% of Annual Funding

NGO IMC id i i NGO partner IMC provides assistance to women in Indonesia following the 2007 earthquakes in West Sumatra. Flood-affected community members receive safe drinking water from a USAID/OFDA-funded mobile water treatment unit in Bangladesh.

Mitigation = 10% of Annual Funding

Through a flash flood management program in the Himalayan region, USAID/OFDA prepares local populations in at-risk areas such as the Tibet A f Ch fl h fl d A staff member of the USAID/OFDA- supported Program for Hydrometeorological Ri k Mi i i i A i Ci i i d Autonomous region of China, to evacuate prior to flash floods. Risk Mitigation in Asian Cities is ready to respond to disasters in Vietnam.

Disaster Declaration

• The USG through USAID/OFDA may respond if:
• The USG, through USAID/OFDA, may respond if:

– The disaster is beyond the capacity of the affected country to respond – The affected country requests

• r will accept assistance
• r will accept assistance

– Responding is in the interest

• f the USG
• The U.S. Ambassador

(Chargé d’Affaires Regional (Chargé d’Affaires, Regional Assistant, or Secretary of State) declares a disaster.

Damage from Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. (USAID)

USAID/OFDA Response Options

• Immediate $50,000 in “Ambassador’s Authority” funds
• Fund NGOs, IOs, the U.N.

Fund NGOs, IOs, the U.N.

• Dispatch USAID/OFDA Commodities

Stockpiled in: Dubai UAE – Stockpiled in: Dubai, UAE – Miami, FL – Pisa, Italy

U.S. Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. presents a check to Red Cross

• Deploy Technical Experts /Assessment Teams
• Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART)

U.S. Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. presents a check to Red Cross Society of China Vice President Guo Changjiang following the April 14, 2010 earthquake in Qinghai Province. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing).

• Activate a Washington, D.C.-based Response Management Team (RMT)

USAID/OFDA Coordination in the Field

• Host Government Agencies
• Other USG agencies and offices
• Military
• Other donors
• NGOs
• U.N. relief agencies
• International Organizations

Above: A USAID/OFDA Regional Advisor attends the launch of the PEER project in Vietnam (Photo courtesy of the American Red Cross.) Left: Taiwan Typhoon Morakot briefing (Photo by Ron Libby, USAID)

USAID/OFDA-Supported Training

• Approach: To improve government and local capacity for disaster

Approach: To improve government and local capacity for disaster preparedness, mitigation, and response.

– Through the development of national and regional cadres of professional emergency response instructors, development of training materials/courses, and provision of training to local and national disaster management agency personnel and first responders.

• USAID/OFDA-Supported

Training Partners in Asia

Th A i F d i (TAF) – The Asia Foundation (TAF) – The Asian Disaster Preparedness C t (ADPC) Center (ADPC)

ADPC Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE) water rescue simulation in Vietnam. (Photo by Brian Heidel, USAID)

USAID/OFDA-Supported Training Programs in Asia

• The Asia Foundation (TAF)

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– Through the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Program (PDRMP) – Trainings include: Introduction to Disaster Management, Initial Damage Assessment, Emergency Operations Centers, Exercise Management, and Training for Instr ctors Instructors – Countries include: The Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu – Please see more information at: www.asiafoundation.org

• The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)

– Through the Program for the Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER) – Trainings include: Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE) and Hospital Preparedness for Emergencies (HOPE) – Countries include: India, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Cambodia Laos and Vietnam Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam – Please see more information at: www.adpc.net

USAID/OFDA Support to ASEAN Coordination Center for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA) Center for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA)

FY 2010: In support of the establishment of the AHA Center, OFDA and the U.S. In support of the establishment of the AHA Center, OFDA and the U.S. Department of State jointly supported:

• Technical Support to the ASEAN Committed for Disaster Management
• Technical Support to the ASEAN Committed for Disaster Management

(ACDM) Task Force on the development of the AHA Center. A t f ASEAN lti h d l i t (EWS)

• Assessment of an ASEAN multi-hazard early warning system (EWS)
• Placement of a full-time regional disaster management expert within the

ASEAN-US Technical Assistance and Training Facility.

USAID/OFDA Assistance By Region - FY 2009

Funding By Agency Type Assistance By Sector