Regional Office for Regional Office for Latin America and the Latin America and the

CaribbeanCaribbeanPanama City, PanamaPanama City, Panama

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

What is OCHA?What is OCHA?

Part of the Part of the United Nations SecretariatUnited Nations Secretariat with with the mandate to the mandate to coordinate UN assistance coordinate UN assistance in humanitarian crisesin humanitarian crises that go beyond the that go beyond the capacity and mandate of any single capacity and mandate of any single humanitarian agencyhumanitarian agency

OCHA works with OCHA works with Humanitarian CommunityHumanitarian Community to ensure that there is a to ensure that there is a coherentcoherent framework within which each actor can framework within which each actor can contribute effectively and promptly to the contribute effectively and promptly to the overall effort. overall effort.

Resolution 46/182Resolution 46/182““The United Nations has a central and unique role to The United Nations has a central and unique role to

play in providing leadership and coordinating the play in providing leadership and coordinating the efforts of the international community to support the efforts of the international community to support the affected countries, and should ensure the prompt and affected countries, and should ensure the prompt and

smooth delivery of this relief assistance”smooth delivery of this relief assistance”

• Reinforce the UN response to complex emergencies and natural disasters

• Improve the efficiency of UN humanitarian operations in the field.

• Creation of the posts of “Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC)” and “Under- secretary general for humanitarian affairs (USG)”

• The “Inter Agency Standing Committee” (IASC)

• Institutional support though OCHA

Functions of OCHAFunctions of OCHA

Response CoordinationResponse Coordination

Policy DevelopmentPolicy Development

Advocate for humanitarian causesAdvocate for humanitarian causes

Facilitate Information ManagementFacilitate Information Management

Mobilize Resources for ResponseMobilize Resources for Response

OCHA Response Mechanisms and ToolsOCHA Response Mechanisms and Tools

• 24 hours Duty system24 hours Duty system

• ReliefWeb, RedHum, HICReliefWeb, RedHum, HIC

• Emergency Cash Grant, Emergency Cash Grant, CERFCERF

• Environmental Emergency Environmental Emergency SectionSection

• Register of Disaster Register of Disaster Management CapabilitiesManagement Capabilities

• Civil Milt Coord staffCivil Milt Coord staff

• Brindisi Warehouse Brindisi Warehouse

• CAP sectionsCAP sections

• UNDAC Support modules UNDAC Support modules from (from IHP Countries)from (from IHP Countries)

• On Site Operations On Site Operations Coordination Centre Coordination Centre (OSOCC) (OSOCC)

• Virtual OSOCC (GDAS)Virtual OSOCC (GDAS)

• INSARAG SecretariatINSARAG Secretariat

•Technical advisors Technical advisors

• Standby Partners Standby Partners

•UNDAC TeamsUNDAC Teams

Strategic ObjectivesStrategic Objectives

Identification of costs Identification of costs • PrioritizationPrioritization• AdvocacyAdvocacy

Identification of gapsIdentification of gaps• Hyogo guidelines and indicators Hyogo guidelines and indicators • UNDAC preparedness missionsUNDAC preparedness missions

Practical measuresPractical measures• UNDAC regional teamsUNDAC regional teams• RedHumRedHum• On site coordinationOn site coordination

Strategic Lines of Action and OCHA Strategic Lines of Action and OCHA ContributionsContributions

Coordination with national Coordination with national international and regional international and regional actorsactors• Permanent coordination Permanent coordination

forums, on-site coordination forums, on-site coordination Disaster Preparedness Disaster Preparedness

ActionsActions• Humanitarian Reform Humanitarian Reform

(Cluster, CERF) UNDAC (Cluster, CERF) UNDAC preparedness missions, preparedness missions, training, RedHumtraining, RedHum

Recovery ProcessRecovery Process• Early consolidated assessments, IDPs Early consolidated assessments, IDPs

protectionprotection Risk managementRisk management

• Response preparedness and capacityResponse preparedness and capacity Hyogo FrameworkHyogo Framework

• Guidelines and indicators Guidelines and indicators

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