Building a Stronger, More Predictable Humanitarian Response System

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Building a Stronger, More Predictable
Humanitarian Response System
The Inter Agency Standing Committee Nutrition
Cluster
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Goals

• Sufficient humanitarian response capacity and
  enhanced leadership, accountability and
  predictability in 9 gap sectors/areas of
  response
• Adequate, timely and flexible humanitarian
  financing
• Improved humanitarian coordination and leadership
• More effective partnerships between UN and non-UN
  humanitarian actors

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Predictable Leadership and ResponseGlobal
Cluster Leads in Gap Areas

• Technical areas
• Nutrition UNICEF
• Water/Sanitation UNICEF
• Education UNIICEF
• Health WHO
• Shelter (conflict, IDPs) UNHCR
• Shelter (natural disasters) IFRC Convenor
• Cross-cutting areas
• Camp Coordination Mgmt (conflict, IDPs) UNHCR
• Camp Coord Mgmt (natural disasters) IOM
• Protection (conflict, IDPs and affected) UNHCR
• Protection (natural disasters) UNHCR/OHCHR/UNICE
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• Early Recovery UNDP
• Common service areas
• Logistics WFP
• Telecommunications
  OCHA/UNICEF/WFP

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Predictable Leadership and Response Global
Level What does the Cluster Lead do?

• Strengthen Preparedness
• Designating global leads
• Securing access to technical expertise
• Stockpiles, surge capacity, rosters,
• Strengthen Partnerships
• - Identify partners
• - Chair with UN, Red Cross/Red Crescent, IOM and
  NGO participation
• Standards and policy-setting
• - monitoring
• - advocacy

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Field Level AimImprove Humanitarian Response
Through

• Identifying Gaps
• Creating stronger partnerships especially with
  NGOs
• Improve strategic field level coordination and
  prioritization
• Strengthen accountability to the Humanitarian
  Coordinator

through Cluster Leads at the Country Level
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What is the Added Value?

• The intent
• Smarter sector coordination and leadership
• Terms of Reference for cluster leads
• Technical capacity and stockpiles built at global
  level, especially in gap areas
• Response is more predictable because who does
  what is pre-defined
• Real accountability from operational agencies
  More strategic field-level coordination
  prioritization more timely and effective
  response
• Real partnerships between UN-IOM-Red Cross/Red
  Crescent-NGOs

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Global Progress

• Roll-out in 4 countries DRC, Liberia, Uganda,
  Somalia
• Implementation in new emergencies -- as per
  Sept. 2005 IASC Principals decision Pakistan
  earthquake (Oct. 05) Java earthquake (May 06)
  Ivory Coast crisis Protection only (June 06)
  Lebanon conflict (July 06), Mozambique (07)
• Global Cluster Appeal launched in March 06 ( 39
  million - 3 million for Nutrition Cluster). Next
  and last appeal April 07
• Draft inter-agency CA Guidance Note issued (June)
• On-going IASC self-assessment of CA
  Evaluation mid 2007

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Global Cluster Members

• WFP
• FAO
• WHO
• UNHCR
• UNICEF (lead agency)
• Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN)
• CDC-Atlanta
• USAID/OFDA
• Action Contre le Faim (ACF)
• Concern Worldwide
• Save the Children UK
• Save the Children US
• Oxfam
• IFRC/ICRC
• GAIN
• HKI
• FANTA Project
• Valid International
• International Rescue Committee (IRC)

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Activities

• Coordination
• Capacity Building
• Tool Development, Assessments, Eligibility
  criteria, Respose
• Supply

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More Information

• IASC Nutrition Cluster Website
• Bruce Cogill
• IASC Nutrition Cluster Coordinator
• bcogill_at_unicef.org