This multi-phase project explores the different forms and modes of HADR cooperation and coordination in Asia and the Pacific. Phase 1 was completed on 31 March 2019. It involved designing and developing an accessible and centralised repository of data for policy-relevant research on ASEAN Member States’ (AMS) HADR engagements. Initial work included tracking financial and in-kind assistance, government personnel mobilised, and military assets deployed by AMS to four major large scale rapid on-set natural disasters.

Phase 2 will examine how civilian-military relations shape, influence, facilitate and/or hinder cooperation and coordination in HADR. It will consolidate, organise and analyse data on the network of relations between and among civilian-military and military-military actors in the region pre-, during, and post-emergencies and disasters.