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largest maritime oil spill in history

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Deepwater Horizon
- offshore oil reg in the Gulf of Mexico owned by BP
- explosion in 2010 caused an explosion that killed 11, ignighted a fireball that was visible from 40 miles away
0 inextinguishable for 40 miles
- collapsed in 36 hrs
- slush combo of drillign mud, water, and methane gass that ignighted
- team tried multiple defenses to stop the spill but all prevention defensive mechanisms failed

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destruction of the enviornment by humans

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ecocide

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purpose of the JHOC course

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to show teh civil-military role

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how many humanitarian disasters did OFDA assist in in FY19

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49
* Iraq and Syria were teh largest recipients
Syria got $249M
Iraq got $221M

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USAID

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agency for itnernational develoment

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who certified the JHOC course

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J7

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operation post Japan earthquake/tsunami/meltdown

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Operation Tomadachi in 2011

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DENTCAP

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Dental civic action progarm

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MEDCAP

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medical civic action program

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VETCAP

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veternarian civil action program

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MEDRETE

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medical readiness training exercise

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CCAD

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Construction Civic Action Details
“See-Kads”
- civic actions of up to 25 Seebees to act as good will ambassadors

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top 3 sources of OFDA Funding by sector

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  1. health
  2. WASH
  3. structure/
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humanitarian sectors funded by USAID

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agricture/food security
economic
health
logistics/relief commodity market system
humanitarian stuides analyzis applications
economic recovery and market systems

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what is a vital part of long-term post recovery

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economic receovery is vital to long-term rehab

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warehouses maintaned by USAID

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3 worldwide

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M&E

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monitoring & evaluation
- a way to systematically ID program bjectives and the logic/pathway . monitor progress towards achieving objectives and assess whether the activitesi results in outcomes

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importance of foreign assistance at the stragegic level

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foreign assistance is an essential instrumetn of US foreign policy
- investment to national security and a strategic investment, economic/moral imperative

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Robert Gates 3D’s

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defense, diplomacy, development

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fragility is…

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“fragility is the absence or breakdown of a social contract between people and their government. Fragile states suffer from deficitys of institutional capacity and political legitimacy that increse the risk of instability and violent conflict and sap the state of its resillience to disruptive shocks”

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IMET

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international miltiary education and trainign

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examples of organizations that participate in economic aid

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USAID
IMF

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examples of organizations that offer humanitarian assistance

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USAID
DOD
Dept State

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5 USG foreign assistance catagories

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development aid
ecnomic assistance
multilateral economic contributions
security assistance
humanitarian assistance

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Brookings Institution
American think tank that primarily does reasearch and education into social sociences * 5 research programs: economic studies, foreign policy, governance studies, global economy and devleopment, brookings metro.
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what happens after humanitarian asistance
transition to development activities
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importance of gaining a foothold post humanitarian assistance
when aligned wtih a strategic goal to project American power, foreign aid, stabilzied local interest, prevents peer adversaries from gainign a foodhold and increase the economic activity of a target/fragile state
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leads USAID
Administrator
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overarching USAID
Dept of State
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Samaritan's Purse
nondenominational evangelical Christian aid giving spiritual and physical aid aroudn teh world
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stat of USAID
established in 1961 by Kennedy's Foreign Assistance Act. cuban/cold war. wanted to leverage DOD and s
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mission statement of SUAID
"in support of AMerican foreign policy" - strategic
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what does USAID work to advance
USAID works to advance US national security and econimic prosperty, demonstrtes American genorousisty, and to promote a path to recepient anself reliance/resillience
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transition that happens after a humanitarian/econimic incident
relief to development
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PRM
Burea ofr Population, Refugees, and Migrations - a Dept of State humanitarian bureau - formulates policies on populations, refugees, and migratnts. - administers US refugee assistance and admission programs
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what % of the world's population is displaced
1%
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what happens to most people who are displaced
80% of displaced pesons are affected by food insecurity and malnutrition
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IDP
internally displaced person
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refugee
outside country of origin 0 unable to avaibale self of protection in one's country 0 well founded fear of prosecution for race, religion, nationality, social group, politics...
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IDP
leave due to armed conflict and violencer 0 no cross into iinternally
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who is responsible for IDP
host nation
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UNHCR
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - mission: ensure everyong has teh right to seek asylum and find safe refuge after fleeing violence, persecution, or war in their home country
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durable solutions to refugees/IDP
voluntary repatriation local integration resettlement
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why does our Stee Department do USAID/foreign assistence
peace security supprot democracy show resolve and capabilities
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why does teh DOD do foreign humanitarian
alleviate suffering of roeign disasters has unique military capabilituies, security cooeration objectives miltiary can provide thigns quickly like logistics and eqiupment that the internatioal community can't provide
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military could do everything in an international disaster
"military can do everything but should they and will they
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relationship ebtween DOD and USAID in disasters
may have different motivations for similiar things but are 1 USG team
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BHA
Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance. under USAID - leads federal coordiantion for itnernational disaster assitance
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US Geological Survey
under Dept of the Interior -
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monitors earthquakes in the US
US Geological Survey under the Dep to the interior
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where is Subic bay
bay on teh west coast of Luzon in the Philippeans. 62 milies NW of Manilia bay
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volcano eruption in Philippeans taht was the 2nd largest eruption of the 20th century
Mt Pinatubo in 1991
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Mt Pinatubo
Philippeans in 1991 second largest eruption if the 20th centuray
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FEWS Net
Famine Early Warning Systems Network - created by USAID and Dept of State after east/west africa faminines in 1985
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5 States of teh Disaster-Management Cycle
prevention mitigation preparedness reponse recovery
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2 non-military uniformed services
NOAA Public Health Service
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notwithstanding
superseding all other laws or overriding only previously enacted conflicting provisions
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differenes between drought and faminie
drought = prolonged lack of water
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definition for complex emergencies
must have an element of conflict
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what happens to disaster relief after each new fiscal year
a new fiscal year needs a disaster redeclaraiotion
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3 criteria for disaster resposne
- HN requests/willa ccept US assistances (HN may refuse b/c optics, priede,...) - disaster is beyond teh ability fo the affect country to responde adeaquaty - responding is in teh interest of the USG *all 3 must qualify
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declaring the haiti earlthquake a humanitarian disaster
USG made 2 disaster declartions. declared one for teh earthquake then one for the humanitrian crisis
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who declares a disaster?
US ambassatory (depty chief of mission)_ or assistant sec fo state for the region if in aan area w/o an ambassador. not the president
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who are generally ambassadors of countries
donors to the presidential campaign cyhief of mission authority directs USG assistance
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MDRO
Mission Disaster Relief Officer 0 Chief of mission or principle officer in a country that has had a disaster appoints a MDRO
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CoM
chief of mission
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EAP
emergency action plan
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what does the MDRO do
Mission Disaster Relief Officer - appointed by chief of mission in a country - drafts the Disaster Declaration and maintains Annex J of the Embassy Emergency Action Plan - must udnerstand HN disster response System
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