Donor response to the crisis

Safety of operations, emergency response and contingency planning

The exceptional financial crisis called for an exceptional response.

We can certainly see this in response to the current financial crisis.

The initial international response to the Darfur crisis in 2003 and the first half of 2004 was limited as the crisis received little international attention, but the response has significantly improved since then.

Peacebuilding operations would evolve in response to the needs of societies in distress.

The crisis in Darfur tested the limits of the UNICEF emergency response capacity.

Tailor made operations designed in response to specific demands ensure ownership and successful results.

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The Government's response has been to establish crisis centers for women (see para 16 above).

The Board notes that UNOPS restructured its operations in 2004 in response to recommendations made by the strategic advisory groups.

And for the past few years, the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit has seconded a gender expert to UNIFEM in Kosovo.

I said then that we faced an unprecedented crisis but one that has a solution an unprecedented response from us all.

The response to the IDP crisis is a collaborative effort under the overall leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator based in Khartoum.

But the stimulus measures transformed a banking crisis into a fiscal and sovereign debt crisis. From 2010 onwards, governments started to raise taxes and cut spending in response to growing fears of sovereign default.

The programme, called the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit, maintains a roster of civilian experts who can join international missions on short notice.

To carry forward the recommendation of the Summit for the further development of proposals for enhanced rapidly deployable capacities to reinforce peacekeeping operations in crisis, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations will continue discussions with members of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations regarding those proposals (ibid.).

In the water and education sectors, UNICEF interventions accounted for around 75 per cent of the total international response to the Darfur crisis.

European countries once offered that sense of hope. But the crisis, and the official response to it, has replaced hope with frustration and disillusionment.

A further deterioration of the situation would pose a threat to ongoing relief operations to Sudanese refugees and could trigger a serious humanitarian crisis.

In 1907, a major financial crisis emanating from the United States affected the rest of the world and demonstrated the fragility of the entire international financial system. The response to the current financial crisis is replaying a similar dynamic.

The track 1 operations are comprised of large scale post crisis and reconstruction projects, building on the operating model applied in Afghanistan during 2002 2004.

To some degree, the rapid, large scale response by UNICEF to the tsunami resulted from lessons learned during the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

As we meet here today, humanitarian workers and the African Union mission are on the front line of the international community's response to the Darfur crisis.

So for the few of us that were there in a professional capacity, this extraordinary volunteer response to this animal crisis was profoundly moving and awe inspiring.

Convened by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the massive refugee crisis triggered by Hitler s virulent anti Semitism, the Évian conference was a catastrophe. And its disastrous outcome needs to be recalled in the light of Europe s current migration crisis.

At the beginning of the crisis, in 2007 2008, the eurozone s fundamental flaws could have been corrected had Germany been willing to support a joint European crisis response. But German officials preferred to maintain national primacy and thus a confederational approach to Europe.

His delegation therefore encouraged States, in practice, not to exclude the application of the draft protocol to operations undertaken in response to natural disasters whenever such risks existed.

CCIRC operates out of the Government Operations Centre, a facility that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as part of Canada's National Emergency Response System.

In response to the questions posed by the representative of China, postponing the examination of the revised budget proposals for MONUC until May would seriously jeopardize its operations.

This trend seems to reflect increased procurement activities by United Nations entities in response to expanding peacekeeping and humanitarian operations in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, among others.

In response to a question from the floor on the relationship between CEB and UNDG, the Assistant Secretary General cited the work of CEB and UNDG on the triple crisis of HIV AIDS, food and governance in Southern Africa and discussions on field operations, in particular the role of resident coordinators, as examples where CEB and UNDG had cooperated closely.

10. Welcomes the adoption of new coordination mechanisms aimed at ensuring a coherent and effective response to the multifaceted humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Fifth, a global response to the crisis, coordinated by the UN, must accompany the EU s plan. This would distribute the responsibility for addressing the refugee crisis over a larger number of states, while helping establish global standards for dealing with the challenge of forced migration.

The dollar has been knocked off its pedestal by the crisis, but any conceivable substitute is obviously even more flawed and more problematical. The euro is the composite currency of an area with a poor growth record and an inadequate response to the economic crisis.

Emergency efforts to overcome the crisis were coordinated through social safety nets and crisis response programs in the fields of health and nutrition and family planning, with special enhancement of mother and child health, social welfare and education for the period of 1996 2002.

UNICEF advocates for joint premises where they maintain or improve cost effectiveness and security and where their negotiation does not impede the response of UNICEF to the humanitarian crisis.

In response to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo, the member States of the European Community adopted legislation providing for the freezing of Yugoslav funds and an immediate flight ban.

As a result of its cooperation with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and offices away from Headquarters, the Department of Safety and Security had been able to use security resources systematically in response to the stream of humanitarian crises and higher risk operations that had characterized 2005.

Her delegation did not object to the inclusion in the scope of the draft protocol of operations for the provision of emergency humanitarian assistance in response to a natural disaster.

Foreign firms started to enter the Colombian market in 1997, generating a rapid response by domestic retailers initiating a process of modernization of operations and consolidation through mergers and acquisitions.

Unlike in Darfur, where the magnitude of the crisis and the required response became evident only over time, early activation of the emergency trigger (an internal mechanism for mobilizing emergency response), centralized coordination in headquarters and an early visit by the Executive Director to the region played a major role in the organization's rapid response in the Indian Ocean region.

Simply put, the European Union s stagnant economy is conditioning its response to the external pressures it confronts internal crisis has left EU leaders little room for maneuver. Fortunately, Europe has the means to address this crisis, if it can summon the wisdom and the political will.

This is the paradoxical result of the policy response to the financial crisis. Macro liquidity is feeding booms and bubbles but market illiquidity will eventually trigger a bust and collapse.

Spain was not in an enviable position. The rapid deterioration of fiscal position after the crisis made any substantial countercyclical response impossible, while regulatory constraints limited the economy s structural flexibility.