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Mr. MATTIATO Alessandro Civil-Military Relations Assistant

European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)

European Union / European Commission

•DG ECHO

•Civ.-Mil. Coordination

•EU Concept

European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations

(DG ECHO) – Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination

International Military Academic Forum (iMAF) 2019

Reichenau Castle, 21 May 2019

Alessandro MATTIATO

Civil-Military Relations Assistant DG ECHO.E1, International & Interinstitutional Relations, Legal Framework

Outline of presentation

• DG ECHO and EU humanitarian aid – basic facts

• Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination and future trends and challenges

• EU Concept on Effective Civil-Military Coordination in Support of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

EU Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief (HADR)

European Commission (Directorate General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations – DG ECHO) in charge of:

• DR: Coordinating EU response by Civil Protection authorities to natural disaster inside & outside EU

• HA: Providing humanitarian assistance to people in need outside of the EU, on the basis of needs and in line with the humanitarian principles.

HA & DR are civilian tasks. Implementation: humanitarian partners & MS Civil Protection authorities.

In exceptional situations: use of mil assets / capabilities only available to the military community.

EU-funded humanitarian operations

Protection from Gender-Based Violence in

Emergencies

Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination = the essential dialogue and interaction between civilian and military actors in humanitarian emergencies necessary to protect and promote humanitarian

principles, avoid competition, minimize inconsistency; and when appropriate, pursue common goals

Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination

EU humanitarian aid & CSDP – Areas of Operation

Future challenges: more relevant than ever before

More effective

Civil-Military Coordination

EU Integrated

Approach to External

Conflicts and Crises New EU

Level of Ambition (LoA) for

CSDP

EU Defence initiatives (PESCO,

EDF)

Evolving nature of

conflicts and crises

Increasing fragility and instability

Effects of climate change

Increasing humanitarian

needs

Need to focus on:

• Education • Training • Exercises • Lessons learnt

Knowledge, skills and competences for the future

• Understand, recognise and protect the humanitarian space

• Promote International Humanitarian Law (IHL)

• Encourage joint planning

• Share information, interact, communicate with humanitarians in Civil-Military Coordination fora

• Jointly develop doctrine and concepts

EU Concept on Effective Civil-Military Coordination in Support of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

• Provides operational guidance to EU Mission/Operation Commanders

• Increases mutual understanding

• Presents concrete ways to work together and complement each other’s efforts

• Favours respect for each other’s mandates and sensitivities

• Presents lessons learnt, best practices, education, training & exercises

Link to the concept

Process

• Excellent EU (Military Staff - DG ECHO) cooperation as part of the EU Integrated Approach

• 2-year process, in parallel with the development of UN OCHA “Recommended Practices for Effective Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination”

• Sept. 2017 workshop on Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination

• Concept approved by the EU Military Committee (January 2019) and presented also in COHAFA

Presentation to Annual CMCoord Consultative Group

• Joint EUMS – DG ECHO presentation of the concept at the OCHA-led Annual CMCoord Consultative Group in Geneva, on 7 February

• Very positive feedback, in particular from OCHA, US (DoD, DoS) and ICRC, especially regarding level of ambition, comprehensiveness and detail on gender and WPS

Lessons learnt, education, training & exercises

• Ongoing and past EU Military Operations and Missions (EUFOR CAR, EUTMs)

• DG ECHO’s input to EU military planning

• 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

• IHL in EU Military Missions

• Training

• Exercises

DG ECHO input to CSDP planning (I)

• In real life situations: e.g. EUFOR CAR, EUTMs, EUNAVFOR MED

• In exercises: e.g. ML-14, ML-16, EU HEX-ML 18 (PACE), MILEX 19

• To all planning documents, from Political Framework for Crisis Approach (PFCA) to Operation Plan (OPLAN)/Mission Plan (MPLAN)

DG ECHO input to CSDP planning (II)

• Focus on humanitarian expertise and CMCoord

→ Best practice: IHL training modules by EUTMs, refugee law and non-refoulement training by EUNAVFOR MED/Operation Sophia

2014 Ebola Outbreak

• Activation of DG ECHO/EUMS Movement Planning Cell (Logistics Directorate) Administrative Arrangements

• 2 UK military Liaison Officers to the ERCC

• UK military MEDEVAC planes mobilised through UCPM

• HNLMS Frigate Karel Doorman for the transport of relief items through UCPM

Hurricane Matthew (Haiti 2016) & Cyclone Maria (Dominica 2017)

• HNLMS Frigate Karel Doorman for the transport of relief items through UCPM

What next?

• EU concept can serve as inspiration for national approaches?

• Dissemination of EU concept in national military academies

• Possible inclusion of core principles in national curricula

DG ECHO stands ready to offer support and expertise as required/needed

Thank you!

Alessandro MATTIATO

alessandro.mattiato@ec.europa.eu

European Commission - Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

Operations (DG ECHO) EU humanitarian aid @eu_echo

For more information:

http://ec.europa.eu/echo