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Bulletin 1/2003
Preparedness and contingency UNJLC bulletins aim to provide an overview of UNJLC activities in regards with pre-crisis and possible crisis environment.
1. Staffing and Organigramme
As agreed in Versoix, November 2002, and through funding of CERF, a UNJLC planing cell has been set up and consists of a senior CMCoord officer, aviation specialist, cartographer and Information manager, all located in the core unit in Rome; and two planning officers who are currently located in Turkey and Syria. A third planning officer/Cmcoord officer will be deployed in Jordan next week It is envisaged to permanently locate planning officers in Turkey, Jordan and Iran while a CMCoord officer will be located in Kuwait/Qatar and a second one in the region Jordan-Syria-Turkey when deemed necessary. In case of a crisis in Iraq, the UNJLC will increase its staff up to twenty persons working for a UNJLC Iraq Unit. Attached draft organigramme of the UNJLC structure in a pre-entry phase. After re-entry into Iraq, The preliminary plan is for UNJLC to be located in Bagdad, Erbil, Kirkuk and Basra and some of the satellite offices in the neighbouring countries will be closed.
2. Information and Co-ordination
A UNJLC meeting was organised in Geneva on the 4th December 2002 in order to discuss possible UNJLC functions for the Iraq preparedness activities and find a formula to share agencies contingency and operational-logistic plans related to a possible humanitarian crisis in the region of Iraq (report posted on website). As a result of the meeting, a website with restricted access was established where airfield and country assessments, matrices with distances and travel time and maps of the region have been posted.
Information on border crossings, stock positions, warehouse locations and possible routes will be posted shortly. To this end, specific formats have been designed that can be connected to a database and the ArcImsystem in order to produce maps and graphics. Formats will be distributed to logistics officers of the different humanitarian organisations.
An on-line logistics platform has been installed and will function as means for senior logistics planners to exchange, read and post relevant information within a small circle of confidants. A personal password can be obtained from the UNJLC Information manager at the core unit in Rome (info@wfp.org).
A second meeting of senior logistics planners will be organised mid February in the region to compare plans and discuss bottle-necks and remaining gaps in planning and coordination.
UNJLC will issue a two-weekly bulletin with latest information on stocks, pipeline, routes, border crossings, airports and ports, warehouse locations and capacity, fuel depots and availability, transport rates and fleet capacities.
3. Training
A training of potential UNJLC officers and standby partners will be organised in Dubai by the end of February. Main topics will be Information management, Logistics coordination, Assessment methodology and IT, Movement Control (air and ground), Civil-military coordination, scenario planning and exercise. The training will be carried out along the same line as the previous training that was held in Copenhagen, November 2002 but will partly focus on a potential Iraq crisis and its consequences for logistics operations and coordination in that area.