Recommended Practices for Effective Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination of Foreign Military Assets (FMA) in Natural and Man-Made Disasters, Version 1.0 September 2018

Purpose of the Recommended Practices for Effective Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination of Foreign Military Assets (FMA) in Natural and Man-Made Disasters:

These Recommended Practices for Effective Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordina-tion of Foreign Military Assets (FMA) in Natural and Man-Made Disasters, subsequently referred to as “the Practices”, intend to better meet the needs of affected people from natural, man-made or technological disasters, and effectively support principled humanitarian action through effective humanitarian civil-military interaction; assist in improving decision making; apply lessons learned and good practices; and, when appropriate, improve the deployment, employment, and transi-tion of Foreign Military Assets (FMA) to support humanitarian relief operations.

Relationship to Existing Humanitarian Civil-Military Guidelines: The Practices were developed to capture decades of experience and lessons in humanitarian emer-gencies where humanitarian, military, and other governmental actors operate in the same geographic space, and in some circumstances, work together to address the needs of people affected by a crisis. The Practices were developed to operational-ize the key principles and concepts contained in existing CMCoord Guidelines (see Annex) and to assist humanitarian, military, and other governmental actors in the development of more principled, coherent, appropriate, and effective coordination across the various facets of humanitarian action.