With established agencies and authorized codes of conduct designed for more systematized operations, many difficulties arise. In its current configuration, if the AHA center operated as a hub for coordination, it would not be able to adequately facilitate and assist in satisfying the needs of all member countries should there be a disaster of large enough scale to affect all member countries at the same time. The initiative to stock rice and food to be used as back-up supplies for the affected countries within the region will fall short when such a large scale disaster is in effect. SASOP is effective at the regional to national level. However, the difficulties vary when SASOP needs to be integrated into on-the-ground operations. In one dimension, developing the same standards for conducting operations at different levels of government systems is impossible. In another dimension, SASOP is only at the beginning of its trial period, so it is difficult for each nation to develop the national-regional-local standard procedures that can be integrated into a larger ASEAN regional system. Although the ERAT program aims to create mutual understanding and agreed steps of operation, there is a lack of emphasis on assisting an individual nation design and develop its own coherent standard operating procedures (SOPs). Hopefully, ERAT can also extend to other areas of professional assistance, such as medical and technical protocols, which require specific licenses to operate. The strict regulations on the certification of certain professionals is intended to make sure that the assistance provided is accurate; however, there is an insufficient number of search and rescue personnel at present.