This paper uses the response to Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu, 2015, as a case-study to review one country’s legal preparedness to manage a large influx of international humanitarian assistance, and the international humanitarian community’s respect for national laws and institutions. It describes provisions in international disaster response law and the developing international law on the protection of persons in the event of disaster regarding the role of the affected state, and juxtaposes this with what happened in the cyclone response—namely, the introduction by international actors of a range of international humanitarian tools and services that were neither described in national legislation nor rehearsed in national planning processes. It concludes by suggesting that national governments and international humanitarian responders advance their efforts to promote the inter-operability of their disaster management systems, and to develop an improved mutual understanding of each other’s roles and responsibilities under international law.

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瓦努阿图飓风帕姆之后促进国际人道主义援助的法律准备

本文以 2015 年瓦努阿图对飓风帕姆的响应作为案例研究，审查一个国家在管理大量国际人道主义援助涌入方面的法律准备情况，以及国际人道主义界对国家法律和机构的尊重。它描述了国际救灾法和正在发展的国际法中关于受灾国在发生灾害时保护人员的规定，并将其与飓风应对中发生的事情并列在一起——即国际行动者引入一系列国际人道主义工具和服务，这些工具和服务既没有在国家立法中描述，也没有在国家规划过程中进行过演练。