1. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Facilitating “Security Cooperation”
USSOUTHCOM
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Facilitating “Security Cooperation”
Our Strategic Purpose:
The Humanitarian Assistance Program is a critical element and engagement tool to bring about Theater Security Cooperation:
-- The Program employs precision engagement with regional, interagency and other critical stakeholders to save human live, reduce human suffering.
Everything that we do, everything that we accomplish, everything that we are contemplating must have a direct correlation to winning the disaster response challenges. If we can’t find a correlation, then we aren’t doing it.

2. USSOUTHCOM Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) OBJECTIVES
Disaster Preparedness
Capacity Building
Infrastructure Improvement
National and Regional Focused Support
Bottom-line: make an impact as CINC’s key engagement program
- The focus of SOUTHCOM’s HA Program is Disaster Preparedness of natural and manmade disasters.
- Projects that improve the capacity of host nations to fully respond to disasters will decrease or eliminate the need for U.S. military response.

3. USSOUTHCOM Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) Strategy
Vision (CINC vision)
Goals (achievable, supports vision)
Objectives (attainable, measurable, supports goals)
Desired Outcome (Enhances security cooperation through effective humanitarian assistance programs)
Bottom-line: Facilitate Security Cooperation throughout the Area of Responsibility.
The purpose of the Humanitarian Assistance Program is clear: To promote Theater Security Cooperation in the Area of Responsibility.
Our strategy to achieve this end…is equally clear:
Strategy equals Vision [plus] Goals [plus] Objectives [plus] Desired Outcome.
Vision: How Disaster Preparedness and Humanitarian Assistance fits in the CINC’s strategic thought to achieve security cooperation.
Program Goals: What can the program do, if done very well will support the CINC’s vision?
Program Objectives: What specific actions to take that brings thought to reality, and supports the programs goals…measurable under all circumstances.
Desired Outcome: Enhanced security cooperation enhanced through disaster response….

4. Types of Projects and Activities
Excess Property (EP):
Disaster Relief Supplies/Equip
Medical Supplies/Equip
School Supplies/Equip
Humanitarian Assistance Other:
Engineer Technical Support
Disaster Management Training
EOC Management/Training
Disaster Relief Warehouse Management
Disaster preparedness Assessments
Medical:
Disease/Vector Control
Bio-Med Equip Repair and Training
Disease Surveillance System
Medical First Responder Training
Post Disaster Stress Management Training
- We currently classify HA Projects into three categories:
-- Excess Property (which are further broken down into the following activities: Medical, Disaster Relief, and School Supplies/Equipment.
-- Medical: Includes (but not limited to the following activities..) disease surveillance, vector control, etc.
-- HA Other: These are project that are not EP or Medical in nature. The activities range from technical/log assessments, SAR Training, (focus being train-the-trainer), etc.

5. “Building Self-sufficiency!”
Building a Quality Disaster Preparedness HA Program “It begins and ends with the USMILGP”
“Building Self-sufficiency!”

6. Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) Process
HAP LEGAL AUTHORITY: US TITLE X, SEC 2557 & 2561
“TO BENEFIT THE CIVILIAN POPULATION”
(OHDACA $ = 2 Year Funding)
EXECUTE HN
INPUT
US COUNTRY
TEAM
HAP
PLAN
USSOUTHCOM
HAP
HAP
PLAN
OSD/DSCA
HAP
HAP
PLAN $
- This cartoon is design to explain the HAP process in a single slide. I will quickly walk you through it so you can understand that there is a structured process:
-- The process begins with input from the Host Nation. We encourage the MILGPs/MLOs to solicit realistic proposals to better develop a quality program.
-- The MILGPs/MLOs formulate their FY proposals and submit them to us for staffing and consolidation into the SOUTHCOM HA Program.
-- SOUTHCOM’s HA Proposals are then submitted to OSD/DSCA for approval and funding.
-- Once we have the funding we begin to execute our projects with the support of the MILGPs/MLOs (they are always involved in the process).
-- Now I will walk you through the types of projects that we can execute:
- DoD Excess Property(EP) Projects (DR, medical, school supplies and equipment). The requirements are identified by the HN. We then work with our DLA HA Depots (Mechanicsburg, PA & San Joaquin, CA) to build the EP loads. Once the loads are ready, we draft a message to coordinate the transportation of the EP donation. Key to success is MILGP/MLO info exchange. We want to know if we’re meeting the intent of project, “assessment”, so we can continue to improve the program.
- Medical Projects (EMT Trg, Bio-Med Maint Tech Spt, etc.) are coordinated with assistance of the SCSG. We review the project requirements and execute them to meet those objectives using SOUTHCOM components or other service providers.
- HA Other Projects (Log/Tech Assessments, SAR Trg, etc.) are coordinated with appropriate SOUTHCOM staff and executed to meet project requirements.
Civil-Military Workshops

7. ALL COUNTRIES: Disaster Preparedness Status Chart

8. USG HA-DP Programs Interaction
Conferences
Requirements/ Needs
Capacity
Building
Countries Response
Capacity
Building
Projects
Exercises & Training
Testing/
Validation

9. An Investment in Preparedness “Applying Lessons Learned”
CINC ENGAGEMENT TOOLS
Theater Engagement
Disaster Preparedness
(DP) Seminars H A P
Humanitarian & Civic Aid
(HCA) Program
SYNERGY
Disaster
Preparedness
- HAP is a focus area designed to support TEP objectives.
- The HAP is one of a number of SOUTHCOM engagement tools we use to enhance disaster preparedness in the AOR. The power of the program is in how we collaborate with other SOUTHCOM engagement activities, like HCA. This synergy created when more than one engagement activity is involved, provides a better package for the host nation/region.
- HAP projects (Disaster Relief Warehouses), HCA activities (Construction of roads, clinics, etc), DR Regional Seminars (To establish links, shape disaster management agencies, etc.),………and partnerships with OFDA, PAHO, Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA) allow us works towards the same, “Preparedness!”
Subject Matter Expert
Exchanges (SMEEs)
OFDA, PAHO, DLA,
CDERA, FEMA, NGOs,
CEPREDENAC, Civil Defense

10. Disaster Relief Warehouses (Building Self Sufficiency)
REMARKS:
CDERA Warehouses Stocked
Training Conducted (Phase I and II)
CDERA/Caribbean Better Prepared
CDERA
REGIONAL
ANTIGUA
JAMAICA
NATIONAL
Caribbean Region:
- The CDERA DR warehouses are currently stocked (tents, generators, cots, blankets, etc.)
- The Caribbean is better prepared for this hurricane season than in the past.
Central American Region:
- National Level DR Warehouses are being established throughout Central America. This was endorsed by OFDA/LAC and CEPREDENAC during the CENTAM Disaster Preparedness Seminar in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Dec 99.
- National Level Warehouse Sites Being Established:
- Belize (FY00)
- Costa Rica (FY00)
- El Salvador (FY00)
- Guatemala (FY00)
- Honduras (FY00)
- Nicaragua (Concept being reviewed by DAO)
- Panama (FY01)
CEPREDENAC ?
BARBADOS
TRINIDAD

11. Disaster Preparedness Transportation Assessment
Barbados
Dominica
St Lucia
St Vincent
Trinidad
Tobago
Guyana
Grenada
Antigua
Montserrat (B)
St Kitts & Nevis
Anguilla (B)
British Virgin Isands
Jamaica
Belize
Bahamas
Turks & Caicos Islands
TOTAL (Average)
Legend
3 - Fully Prepared
2 - Partially Prepared
1 - Not Prepared
Air transportation 2 1 3
Sea transportation
Motor transportation
Port facilities
Carrier Agreements
Engineer Equipment
Here is an example of an emerging document that we will maintain visibility on Host Nations’ ability to conduct disaster respond:
The matrix is similar to the Chairman’s Joint Monthly Readiness Review
Helicopters
Flatbeds/ Containers
Storage Facilities
Warehouse Equipment 2 1
TOTAL (Average)

12. Andean Ridge and Southern Cone
REMARKS:
Disaster Relief Warehouse System
Warehouses construction / renovation planned for FY02 (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador)
Excess Property Supplies, and Equipment planned for FY 02
- FY 01 Andean Ridge Regional Mechanism Assessment and planned development for Execution in FY 02
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Brazil
Bolivia
Chile

13. CEDRA OFDA CREPENAC HAP FAVA/CA PAHO ADEAN RIDGE
Another way to view them is through their collective value…and the synergistic effects of collaboration.
Their special added-value is their ability to draw from similar ideas, from different fields, to form analyses about problems implementing Humanitarian Assistance programs in the region.
The SOUTHCOM Humanitarian Assistance Program seeks to build alliances with regional organizations to ensure that we are doing the right things (effectiveness)…and that we are doing those things right (efficiency).
This Partnership enhances Theater Security Cooperation…the ultimate measure of program effectiveness.
ADEAN RIDGE

14. FY02 HAP Engineer Projects
Guatemala
Well Tech Assessment
$20K (MILGP)
Waiting on funding.
Delayed
Honduras
Bridge Tech Assessment
$75K (COE)
Waiting on funding for COE.
Delayed
Well Tech Assessment
$20K (MILGP)
Waiting on funding.
Delayed
El Salvador
Well Tech Assessment
$20K (MILGP)
Waiting on funding.
Delayed
Panama
Warehouse Renovation
$100K (MILGP)
SCEN assessment delayed.
Delayed
Nicaragua
Warehouse Renovation
$100K (MILGP- $85K/COE - $15K)
SCEN scheduling assessment (May).
Facilities Assessment
$25K (COE - $25K)
SCEN scheduling assessment.
For FY01:
7 JCS Exercises supported
10 Proposed Projects.
$2.75M in ERC Funds
Possible NU00 Pop-up.
EOC Renovation
$200K (MILGP- $200K)
SCEN assessment working.
Delayed
Water-Sewage Assessment
$50K (MILGP- $25K/COE - $25K)
SCEN assessment Feb.
Delayed
Central America
South America
Caribbean

15. FY02 HAP Engineer Projects
Belize
Warehouse Renovation.
$250K (MILGP- $212K/COE - $38K)
Working bid packet with COE.
Jamaica
Well assessment/repair.
$20K (MILGP)
Assessment by COE
and SCEN pending.
Delayed
Hospital Renovation.
$300K (MILGP- $254K/COE - $46K)
Awaiting funds.
Delayed
Bolivia
Warehouse Construction
$300K (MILGP- $254K/COE - $46K)
Awaiting site survey.
Colombia
Warehouse Renovation
$200K (MILGP- $169K/COE - $31K)
Awaiting funds.
Delayed
For FY01:
7 JCS Exercises supported
10 Proposed Projects.
$2.75M in ERC Funds
Possible NU00 Pop-up.
Ecuador
Warehouse Renovation.
$250K (MILGP- $212K/COE - $38K)
Awaiting site survey.
Peru
Well assessment/repair.
$20K (MILGP)
Assessment by COE and SCEN pending.
Delayed
Well assessment/repair.
$20K (MILGP)
Assessment coordinated by MilGp.
Central America
South America
Caribbean

16. U. S. Southern Command El Salvador Earthquake Relief -- $1.168M OHDACA
13 Projects
8 Schools
5 Medical Clinics
Joint Chiefs of Staff “sponsors” three engineer exercises each year, and will also sponsor the 5 skills exchanges once they get off the ground. JCS funds the airllift and a portion of the O&M costs for a Service Component to participate in one of these exercises. SouthCom J3 is responsible for the successful planning and execution of each one.
Process:
- D-2 years, SCJ3/SCJ5 obtain CinC Concurrence on countries to receive JCS exercises
- D-18 months, CinC sends “Offer Message” to U.S. Ambassador in Allied Naiton asking for approval and Allied Nation concurrence that they will host the exercise
- D-18 months, SCJ34 sends our message to all AOR asking for medical and engineer HCA nominations. SCEN tries to follow this quickly with our own and 412th ENG COM deployments to a good package of nominations.
- D-18 months, Service Components force list for participation based upon SCJ34 “suppotability message”
- D-12 months, nominations are in and Executive Agent hosts IPC
- Mission statement is developed at IPC, SouthCom MOI is completed and Executive Agent and TF move into execution planning

17. Humanitarian Assistance Program
Projects include: Disaster Preparedness/Mitigation EOC Management / Training Disaster Relief Supplies
FY02 HA Program Main Effort: Disaster Relief and Regional Mechanisms
- Conf & Exercises validate projects Supplies/Equipment donations (Establish Disaster Relief Warehouses)
FY02 HAP Continued: Disaster Relief Assessments to Develop Plans/SOPs for Search & Rescue, Medical First Responders Capability and Emergency Operation Center SOPs and training
FY02 HA Program (The Way Ahead): projects approved, 31 countries supported - Coordinate a Regional Response Agency in Andean Ridge
- Focus is leveraging Disaster Management Tools using HAP projects

18. Humanitarian Assistance Program POC List
Mr. Harry Turner, SOUTHCOM HAP Manager, (305) ,
DSN: , FAX: 1440/1443,
MSgt Dave Gallardo, SOUTHCOM HAP NCOIC, x-1741,
TSgt Yvette Berrios, SOUTHCOM HAP Support Br, x-1405,
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