OCHA

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OCHA

• Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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G.A. Resolution 46/182
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• OCHA is an office in the UN Secretariat
• Main functions
• Coordinate international humanitarian response
• Policy development
• Advocacy on humanitarian issues
• Information Management
• Resources mobilization
• Tools and mechanisms for disaster and emergency
  response

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UNDAC

• United Nation Disaster Assessment and Coordination

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WHAT IS THE UNDAC TEAM?

• 160 disaster management experts
• 47 Governments and 5 International Organizations
• Regional teams in the Americas, Europe, Africa,
  the Pacific and Asia
• Support to coordination of the international
  assistance in case of disaster

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HOW IS IT MOBILIZED?

• Through the Office for the Coordination of
  Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• At the request of
• A national Government
• A UN Resident Coordinator

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WHEN/ HOW MANY EXPERTS ?

• In the first 12-24 hours after the disaster or
  the request
• 5-8 UNDAC members
• Duration 2-4 weeks
• Transition (OCHA/UNDP)

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WHAT DOES IT DO?

• Support to coordination
• Information management and dissemination
• Rapid evaluation of immediate needs
• Resource mobilization

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UNDAC IVAN JEANNE 2004
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Ivan Sept. 2004
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Mains Activities of UNDAC

• Coordination meetings
• Information management
• Reception center at the airport
• Field and aerial assessments with ODPEM,
  UN-agencies, Donors, NGOs in all the sectors.

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Coordination meetings
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Field and aerial assessments
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Information ManagementContributions
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Contact List
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Needs Actions - Gaps

• Response
• JRC
• Food, tarpaulins, blankets, kitchen kits, health
  kits
• Save The Children Non-food items, water, building
  supplies for school and clinics
• Children First
• Food
• ODPEM
• Mattresses, Pads
• UNICEF
• Health supplies

St. Catherine

• Needs
• Water and sanitation (15,000)
• Food
• Medical Supplies (4,000)
• Electricity
• Building supplies(9 health centres)

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OCHA SITREP
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Some Issues

• Humanitarian principles
• Inter institutional and integrated emergency
  preparedness process.
• Sustainable capacities
• Early warning
• Private sector
• Visibility
• Transition from relief to recovery.

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