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Red R Australia Ltd
www.redr.org.auRedR Australia’s year to 30 June 2009 was its most active since the 2005 response to the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. It was a sad humanitarian reflection that our people were required in 22 different countries including Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka and Sudan.
Our Register and Deployment Service supported 57 people during the period, some completing assignments which began ahead of 1 July 2008, with most beginning new missions during the year.
United Nations disaster response agencies called for nominations for specialised roles, both engineers and others, and the email system went into overdrive, checking on availability of likely contenders, sorting the responses, and sending off CVs for consideration. Of the 65 assignments commenced, 25 were undertaken by women, and 285 months of field service were delivered. First mission deployments totalled 31, a pleasing balance of opportunity for both longerterm Register members and relative newcomers.
Close to 400 people are eligible to be nominated for assignments, though naturally not all are always available. No new Register additions would have been possible without the Training Service delivery of core courses which are prerequisites for deployment, and customised courses which reflect UN calls for specialised staff.
Training has wider implications than our Register. Trainees participated on behalf of Government departments, including health sectors where an international mandate has been assigned or created. Other non-government aid agencies sent personnel to RedR Australia for training, and we were commissioned to train in Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Thailand.
Nobody should leave Australia with humanitarian intent without solid appreciation of preventive behaviours which may minimise, but never eliminate, threats to security. The tragic siege at Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Hotel in November 2008 involved innocent travellers.
An independent review commissioned by AusAID gave RedR Australia a very healthy report card. AusAID funding support will continue to enable carefully-selected, properly-prepared, experienced practitioners undertake emergency assignments via RedR.
World circumstances will not reduce demand. We expect another active year. Support from Engineers Australia will again be crucial if RedR Australia is to be truly ready to make a difference.
Dr Robert Care
Chairman
