Humanitarian Affairs Section

Humanitarian affairs segment

Human rights and humanitarian affairs

Chapter VI Humanitarian affairs segment

Executive Committee on Humanitarian Affairs (ECHA)

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

On the Government of the Sudan side, the missions included representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and the Humanitarian Affairs Commission.

c Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

I myself was Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.

UNOCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The decree provides wide powers to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and the Humanitarian Affairs Commission to oversee and control the activities of national and international non governmental and civil society organizations.

To that end, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has commissioned a review of the international humanitarian response system.

On 27 January, the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, briefed the Council on the humanitarian situation in Africa.

Figures provided by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, April 2005.

Briefing by the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

UN Habitat recently became a member of the Executive Committee for Humanitarian Affairs.

Briefing by the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

11 a.m. Mr. Jan Egeland, Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs (on the occasion of the launch of the Humanitarian Appeal 2006)

(iv) The humanitarian affairs segment will be held from 13 to 18 July 2005

(e) The humanitarian affairs segment will be held from 13 to 18 July 2005

(iv) The humanitarian affairs segment would be held from 13 to 18 July 2005

Strengthening humanitarian response is the key objective of the current humanitarian reform agenda outlined by the Secretary General and led by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs are heading efforts by the Executive Committees on Humanitarian Affairs and on Peace and Security to implement the policy consistently in all field activities.

The United Nations and its Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) play a key role in efforts to strengthen international humanitarian cooperation.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) needs to be strengthened.

We pay special tribute to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for providing direct humanitarian assistance to victims and for launching an appeal for additional emergency humanitarian assistance.

The assessment mission comprised representatives of the Department of Political Affairs, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNAMSIL.

13. Stresses the importance of the humanitarian affairs segment of the Economic and Social Council in strengthening the coordination and effectiveness of United Nations humanitarian assistance

It was not obvious, for example, how the functions of the Humanitarian Assistance Liaison Unit differed from those of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is in the process of developing proposals to improve the timeliness and predictability of humanitarian funding (ibid., eighth bullet).

This has now merged with the Subregional Humanitarian Coordination Group which meets once a month under the chairmanship of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

The Government contributed 50,000 to the relief efforts through the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

The policy is currently being updated in collaboration with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

10. Reaffirms the role of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat as the focal point within the overall United Nations system for advocacy for and coordination of humanitarian assistance among United Nations humanitarian organizations and other humanitarian partners

Through its six field coordination offices, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs was an important focal point for United Nations interaction with humanitarian non governmental organizations.

The panellists will include Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Mr. Sálvano Briceño, Director, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat and a representative of the United Nations Development Programme.

Theme for the humanitarian affairs segment of the substantive session of 2005 of the Economic and Social Council

Interregional Advisor on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, Vienna, 1982 1993.

The Executive Director and other members of the secretariat participated in panel discussions during the humanitarian affairs segment.

In those emergencies and some 27 others, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is providing support to United Nations country teams through the resident and humanitarian coordinators.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and humanitarian agencies therefore deserve our fullest support moral, political and financial and should be provided with what they need.

17. Reiterates that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs should benefit from adequate and more predictable funding

18. Reiterates that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs should benefit from adequate and more predictable funding

c Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations Population Fund, World Food Programme.

To identify systemic barriers, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has commissioned a system wide study, to be completed in 2005, which will examine international humanitarian response capacity.