Emergency employment support

Emergency health support

Emergency food and agriculture support

Emergency budget and fiscal support

Expenditure for emergency infrastructure support amounted to 11 million.

Governments can support the establishment of national computer emergency response teams.

The creation of an emergency support fund for cotton was important.

This is especially important in large scale and long term emergency response programmes and in programmes to support the transition from emergency response to development programming.

The emergency programme responded effectively to the 2000 and 2001 dzud mainly by providing emergency nutritional supplements and psychosocial support to children affected by the disaster.

Country level emergency planning will be coupled with a human resources support and referral system.

The United Nations agencies rapidly coordinated their response and provided emergency support for immediate needs.

In 2001, a dedicated IDP Unit was created within OCHA to support the Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Urges the international community to provide budgetary support to meet emergency needs, including the payment of salaries, in particular by providing additional contributions through the Emergency Economic Management Fund

Invites the donor community to consider providing budgetary support to meet emergency needs, including the payment of salaries, in particular by providing additional contributions through the Emergency Economic Management Fund

Likewise, we support improving the Central Emergency Revolving Fund and the use of emergency standby capacities, under the auspices of the United Nations, for a timely response to humanitarian emergencies.

The Fund can provide emergency assistance to individual cases in countries where no project is receiving support.

Finally, I would like to highlight the important issue of the transition from emergency support to development.

Since October 2000, UNRWA has raised some 520 million to support its programme of emergency humanitarian assistance.

Similarly, UNICEF will further increase its attention and support to conflict prevention, peacebuilding, early warning and emergency preparedness.

Here, we support measures to strengthen mechanisms for planning for and dealing with emergency situations caused by disasters.

The Guide has been designed to assist businesses in identifying effective ways to support United Nations emergency relief efforts.

Since 2000, five new emergency shelters have been established as well as five support programs for parents, adults and youth.

Restrictions on movement and declining donor support, however, required UNRWA to scale back its core emergency interventions, including food aid.

To better fulfil this role, UNICEF will develop a support and referral system, including a global emergency coordinator, a cadre of regional WASH advisors with emergency expertise, and a roster of pre qualified agencies and individuals.

Noting with satisfaction the support by the international community of the post emergency reconstruction programme presented by the Government of Mozambique,

Through this focus area, UNICEF will also contribute to national capacities for emergency preparedness and support national efforts for conflict prevention.

The support budget is also expected to increase, in part to cover mandatory costs related to security compliance and emergency preparedness.

In that respect, the European Union welcomed the participation of UNHCR in UNDG and its support for the Emergency Relief Coordinator.

A critical aspect of institutional support during the reporting period was the emergency financing of the Palestinian Authority's recurrent budget costs.

Despite these initial steps, a fiscal crisis within the Palestinian Authority required emergency budget support towards the end of the year.

(b) Emergency package in emergency countries

Welcoming also the appointment by the Secretary General of a Special Coordinator to coordinate international emergency relief operations in support of national emergency programmes of countries affected by the tsunami disaster and covered by the flash appeal,

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will work closely with Governments of disaster prone and emergency affected countries to ensure the effective delivery of emergency humanitarian assistance, including support in the continuum from relief to development.

Effective emergency response requires the quick mobilization of qualified staff members professional support from partner agencies, qualified consultants or private sector agencies.

UNICEF is a key support agency for WASH interventions in emergencies and often acts as the focal point for coordinating WASH emergency interventions.

In emergency situations, assistance will be extended to affected communities (refugees and non refugees) as a temporary measure and as donor support allows.

In 2001, Emergency Health and Emergency Social Services were combined under one Director of Emergency Health and Social Services with sole signing authority for emergency disasters.

UNICEF support to facility based emergency obstetric care, the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), PMTCT plus and the care, treatment and support of children infected and affected by HIV will prioritize poor districts.

UNRWA also continues to provide emergency support to Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory, where poverty rates are as high as 70 per cent.

(f) Supporting emergency preparedness and response and post emergency transition.

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Emergency

Concerned about the need to mobilize adequate support, including financial resources, for emergency humanitarian assistance at all levels, including at national, regional and international levels,

UNHCR continued to support the provision of education for persons of concern from emergency to reintegration phases, with particular focus on access to primary education.

Emergency assistance is useful, but it is only that emergency assistance.