25th - 26 th FebruarySadiyat Island Abu DhabiDeveloping National Capabilities

forCrisis & Disaster Management

Major General Michael Charlton-Weedy CBE DLUK Cabinet OfficeCivil Contingencies Secretariat

To outline the UK’s concepts and practices in the development and management of emergency capabilities

Please note that the UK’s legal definition of emergency contained in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 subsumes crisis and disaster, which infer degrees of severity of the consequences of the emergency

Aim

The capacity to fulfill a defined task to the required standard in specified conditions

It is not just about equipment and assets……….

What is Capability?

Intellectual• Strategy• Concepts• Doctrine

Human• Selection• Training• Education

Structural• Organisation• Coordination• Culture

Physical• Equipment• Logistic support• Infrastructure

Integration

The Components of Capability

• The application of programme management disciplines to the parallel development and integration of diverse components– Spread across various ministries, agencies & companies– Dependent on information sharing & cooperation– Risks of sub-optimisation– Centralised coordination board (Cabinet Office)

• The use of performance monitoring, measurement and management to assure availability and reliability

• But what to develop?

Capability Development

• Strategic context– National Security Strategy– Domestic Resilience Strategy

• National Risk Assessment– Identifies risks requiring specific capabilities

What capabilities?

H – influenza pandemic

H – coastal floods

H – major transport accident

H – major industrial accident

H – inland floods H – severe winter T – attack on public transport

H – animal disease

UK National Risk Assessment - Excerpt

H – influenza pandemic

H – coastal floods

H – major transport accident

H – major industrial accident

H – inland floods H – severe winter T – attack on public transport

H – animal disease

Mass Fatality

Mass Casualty

Floods

FunctionalRisk Specific

Flooding

Site Clearance

CBRNMass Casualties

Mass Fatalities

Animal Diseases

Infectious Diseases

Evacuation & Shelter

GenericWarning & Informing

Recovery

Resilient Telecommunications

Community & Corporate Resilience

Humanitarian AssistanceInteroperability

C3Central Response

Local Resilience

ContinuityHealth

Energy

Finance

Transport Telecoms & Postal

Food & Water

• Strategic context– National Security Strategy– Domestic Resilience Strategy

• National Risk Assessment– Identifies risks requiring specific capabilities

• National Resilience Planning Assumptions– Derived from identified risks– Define consequences of reasonable worst case scenarios in

sufficient detail to confirm the scale of capability requirements

What, but how much capability?

• Strategic context– National Security Strategy– Domestic Resilience Strategy

• National Risk Assessment– Identifies risks requiring specific capabilities

• National Resilience Planning Assumptions– Derived from identified risks– Define consequences of reasonable worst case scenarios in

sufficient detail to confirm the scale of capability requirements

• National Resilience Capabilities Programme– Manages & applies priorities & resources

What capability integration?

• Concept• Doctrine & SOPs• Trained people

drivers, erectors, plumbers, electricians, refrigeration engineers, operators, handlers, mortuary assistants, recorders, photographers, system managers, pathologists, laboratory technicians, receptionists, all working together as a team

Deployed Capability – Mass FatalitiesLondon Bombings – 7th July 2005

Risk

What?

NRPA

How Much?Gap Analysis

ProgrammeManagement

Exercises &Operations

UK Capability Management Process

• Systematic• Strategy framed• Risk determined• Realism constrained• Cooperatively managed

Summary

25th - 26 th FebruarySadiyat Island Abu DhabiDeveloping National Capabilities

forCrisis & Disaster Management

Major General Michael Charlton-Weedy CBE DLUK Cabinet OfficeCivil Contingencies Secretariat