The 12th Annual South-East Asia Red Cross Red Crescent Leadership Meeting was hosted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 25-27 February 2015, under the generous hospitality of the Cambodian Red Cross and its President, Bun Rany Hun Sen and the Secretary General, Pum Chantinie.

The leadership meeting is an important opportunity for presidents, secretaries, general and senior management in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to evaluate challenges, successes and future direction, as a way of further strengthening the world’s largest humanitarian network.

The leadership meeting was held under the overarching theme of the Fundamental Principles. The key discussion points include, but not limited to:

• Auxiliary roles vs independence
• Fundamental principles
• Transparency and innovative approaches
• 11th Leadership meeting in Singapore
• Population movement issues
• Inter-religious and inter-cultural dynamics in Southeast Asia: role of National Societies
• Global humanitarian developments
• Briefing by ICRC
• 2015 Planning and Statutory and Movement meetings

The leaders concluded the meeting with a collective commitment calling to translate the discussions from the meetings into a reality: Phnom Penh Leadership Outcomes

   

PHNOM PENH LEADERSHIP OUTCOMES
REPORT of the Leadership Meeting (includes the Phnom Penh Leadership Outcomes)
Agenda
Welcome note
List of delegation


Follow up from 11th South-East Asia Red Cross Red Crescent Leadership Meeting

• Minutes of the 11th South-East Asia Red Cross Red Crescent Leadership Meeting as endorsed
• Regional Community Safety and Resilience Forum (RCSRF) – Summary
• Regional Community Safety and Resilience Forum 2014 – Key Developments and Expected Decisions and Directions, a presentation by Dr. Amnat Barlee, Chairperson of RCSRF.

Terms of Reference (TOR):

• TOR for South-East Asia Leaders Meeting
• TOR for Regional Community Safety and Resilience Forum (RCSRF)
• TOR for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction technical Working Group
• TOR for Regional Health Technical Working Group
• TOR for RCRC South-East Asia Regional Gender and Diversity Network
• TOR for Regional Youth and Organizational Development Forum
• TOR for South-East Asia Youth Network (SEAYN)

Working Group Reports:

• Report from Regional Disaster Management Technical Working Group
• Report from Regional Health Technical Working Group
• Report from Regional National Society Development Technical Working Group
• Report from Regional Youth Technical Working Group

Lessons Learned PresentationsSmuggling)

• Cambodian Red Cross’ Auxiliary Role to Public Authorities – Relationship with Private and Public sectors and OD Progress Update by H.E. You Lana, Second Deputy Secretary General, Cambodian Red Cross
• Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) Operation: Lessons Learned by Gwendolyn Pang, Secretary General of Philippine Red Cross
• Lessons Learned in National Society Development by Janvario Ximenes, Secretary General of Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste (CVTL)

Population Movement Issues (Migration, Human trafficking and Smuggling)

• Rights of Migrants in Action – Benefits for National Society by IFRC
• Roundtable on Humanitarian Dimension and Protection Aspects of Trafficking in Persons by ICRC

Updates on Global Humanitarian Developments

• World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) – Progress in the Preparations for the WHS by Benjamin William, Singapore Red Cross
• Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals by Martin Faller, IFRC
• Post Hyogo (2015) Framework for DRR – UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 by Anne E. Leclerc, IFRC
• UN Climate Change Conference COP 21 2015

Movement Issues

• Working with National Societies in Southeast Asia by ICRC
• Statutory Meetings by IFRC
• 9th East Asia Summit
• Regional Events and Workshops organized by ICRC in 2015