Every fourth year Triplex is organised as a full-scale exercise. Following a pre-exercise workshop where participants meet, have the possibility to present their organisation and receive training in different areas of humanitarian response; Triplex is conducted over 3 days as a full-scale exercise where the response to a sudden-onset natural disaster is being simulated. This includes e.g. the deployment of and UNDAC and other bilateral response teams to the affected area, the set up of a base camp facilities and the full provision of IHP support services.
From 2010 it’s decided that Triplex every fourth year – in a cycles’ with the traditional full-scale exercise - will be a table-top like exercise with relevant technical workshops and an additional conference on current topics. The goal is to train the management relations within the IHP and between the focal points and UN Agencies as well as corporation between member states.
Triplex 2010 will focus on Management level and the decision-making processes during the alert, mobilisation and deployment phases. The exercise – conference, management workshop and technical workshops – will take place in Denmark during 4 – 8 October.
For the 2010 exercise the scenario will be a natural disaster e.g. an earthquake in a heavily populated area suffering the devastating humanitarian crisis we have seen on Haiti, in Pakistan and elsewhere.
The Triplex Conference will be organised together with the University of Copenhagen, Master of Disaster Management Program, with speakers from IHP-countries and other international organisations and universities. The conference will be open for up to 300 participants. A small meeting fee for non-Triplex participants will apply to prevent to many no-shows at the conference.
The theme for the conference is: Disaster management in Complex Emergencies with two main topics – first Global humanitarian politics and secondly Future challenges in Complex Emergencies.
In connection to the conference there will be a small Exhibition granting IHP-member organisations and partners the possibility to promote themselves and there services. The Exhibition will be open all day.
Plans for the next Triplex exercise were discussed at a meeting in Copenhagen in the beginning of June. During a break the majority of participants gathered for a photo session. Back row from left to right: Peter Westerbeck, Netherlands, Jesper Lund, OCHA, Peter Kaas-Claesson, Denmark, Hannes Keller, Estonia and Shaun Edgerley, UK. Front row from left to right: Thorbjörn Nesjan, Denmark, Pekka Tiainen, Finland, Lars Johansson, Sweden, Vegar Skilheim, Norway and Hans Bouun, Denmark.
Sally Hoffer from Netherlands was the only female delegate in the Triplex meeting in Copenhagen. Here pictured together with two Danes, Peter Kaas-Claesson (left) and Thorbjörn Nesjan.