Military Assistance
Military Assistance :
The use of military forces in humanitarian assistance missions during Complex Emergencies. Such assistance may take the form of military protection of humanitarian aid delivery, monitoring demobilization programs, providing logistics, arresting war criminals and protecting civilians. Military and Civil Defence Assets (MCDA): As defined in the 1994 Oslo Guidelines, comprises relief personnel, equipment, supplies and services provided by foreign military and civil defence organizations for international humanitarian assistance. Furthermore, civil defence organization means any organization that, under the control of a Government, performs the functions enumerated in Article 61, paragraph (1), of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. When these assets are under UN control they are referred to as UN MCDA. (OCHA)
