On 8 May the SPDC agreed to work with the ASEAN Secretariat and the ACDM to assemble and deploy an ASEAN Emergency Rapid Assessment Team (ERAT), made up of government officials from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and the ASEAN Secretariat, disaster management experts and three representatives from United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In the first-ever such mission for ASEAN, ERAT was deployed to Burma from 9-18 May.