ブックタイトルRecommendations to prepare for future mega-disasters in Japan

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Recommendations to prepare for future mega-disasters in Japan

Also the funds should not restrict geographic areas that are applicable for financialsupport 19 .? A comprehensive disaster response body, or the Emergency Disaster ResponseHeadquarters, will make a centralised decision on whether or not to accept foreignarmed forces. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) and SDF will control the operations offoreign armed forces once the Government accept them. The MOD and SDF will furthercoordinate with relevant ministries, local authorities and other organisations asrequired.c. Development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for accepting international assistance? In order to receive the international assistance swiftly and in a centralised manner, theGovernment of Japan should develop a common Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)for its working level officials of all the relevant ministries, who assist the work of thecomprehensive disaster response body. The relevant actors should also conduct jointexercises once a year. Such an SOP should build on existing international guidelines ondisaster relief; clarify and integrate roles and responsibilities of the line ministriesinvolved, and elaborate on a series of steps to be taken from making decisions onwhether or not to accept international assistance to supporting the international teams’withdrawals ? including temporary measures that will allow flexible application ofrelevant legal and administrative requirements.? To accept international rescue, medical and other specialised teams, a comprehensivedisaster response body should establish a centralised decision making procedure. Such aprocedure should include confirming their arrival dates on the Virtual OSOCC and othertools; establishment of one or more Reception and Departure Centres (RDCs) at mainairports; assisting their movements to the disaster affected areas; securing their on-siteaccommodations; clarifying methods to coordinate with local rescue entities on-site;and supporting the teams’withdrawals. In the procedure, responsible ministries shouldbe indicated per each step. In particular, the procedure related to the search and rescueteams must be developed in compliance with the INSARAG guidelines.? With regard to the acceptance of the relief items, the SOP should cover the issues oftransport inside Japan, storage and distribution, in line with the system proposed in theItem b discussed above. In conjunction with the SOP, common formats for swift datacollection and assessing needs per evacuation centres or geographic units 20 should bedeveloped. This is in line with the idea of setting common national minimum standardswhich will be discussed in detail in Part II.d. Legal preparedness for receiving international assistance(i) Legal arrangement and clarification for possible accidents associated with relief operationsinvolving international aid workers1 9 The reserved funds should be made more user friendly, covering the costs for temporary storage and organisingof relief items at the arriving airports as well as shipment of multiple consignments to the same destinations in onelot. A written manual summarising these conditions should be prepared in advance.2 0 UN humanitarian organisations have standard formats for calculating the required amount of water, food, tentsand other relief items in accordance with the number of disaster-affected populations, and disaggregated by gender,age and other attributes.16