Humanitarian response

Humanitarian response

Humanitarian response system

Response to the humanitarian situation in Iraq.

Noting with appreciation the efforts made by the United Nations to improve humanitarian response, including by strengthening humanitarian response capacities, by improving humanitarian coordination, and by enhancing predictable and adequate funding,

Noting with appreciation the efforts made by the United Nations to improve humanitarian response, including by strengthening humanitarian response capacities, by improving humanitarian coordination and by enhancing predictable and adequate funding,

Australia continues to play its part in humanitarian response.

Humanitarian response needs to become more predictable in all emergencies.

That would facilitate both a political and a humanitarian response.

Welcoming the ongoing efforts to strengthen international humanitarian response, including the emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations,

In that respect, the European Union welcomes the Humanitarian Response Review.

UNFPA role in emergency preparedness, humanitarian response, and transition and recovery

The need to improve the humanitarian response system is another key element in the Secretary General's report, especially as regards response capacity, funding and security and the right of access for humanitarian personnel.

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

The complex environments in which we undertake humanitarian action highlight the need to continue to strive for a strengthened humanitarian response.

The United States supports a stronger and more effective response in humanitarian crises.

Thirdly, improving international architecture for humanitarian response and operational activities is long overdue.

Lastly, the humanitarian response to situations of violations should be adequate and timely.

Item 11 UNFPA role in emergency preparedness, humanitarian response and transition and recovery

21. Stresses the importance of rapid access to funds to ensure a more predictable and timely United Nations response to humanitarian emergencies, and welcomes in this regard the establishment of the Central Emergency Response Fund and its contribution to the promotion and enhancement of early humanitarian response

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).

Humanitarian response activities are an essential part of the overall work and cooperation of UNICEF.

Against that background, serious challenges have been posed for the United Nations humanitarian response mechanism.

The humanitarian response review is an important undertaking that has spotlighted issues requiring immediate solutions.

This was highlighted in the Humanitarian Response Review, which made specific recommendations for follow up.

The disaster response mechanisms developed jointly by the Government and UNAMA have grown increasingly effective in collecting information on and facilitating the response to humanitarian crises.

An ASEAN United Nations seminar on humanitarian assistance and rapid response capacity was also held last October to identify concrete steps to enhance ASEAN's response capacity.

Rapid response teams for emergencies will be expanded, based on lessons learned during recent humanitarian crises.

This will, we believe, significantly contribute to achieving a more predictable, timely response to humanitarian emergencies.

Lessons learned are also an important part of ensuring a more effective and predictable humanitarian response.

We must therefore continue our efforts to improve the effectiveness and the predictability of humanitarian response.

We consider that assigning a United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator or Resident Coordinator with the appropriate authority to coordinate the humanitarian agencies working in the field would serve to provide a better humanitarian response.

WFP continued its engagement in preparedness for humanitarian response, with contingency planning covering more than 30 countries.

Report on UNFPA role in emergency preparedness, humanitarian response, and transition and recovery (DP FPA 2005 18)

It made real progress on terrorism, human rights, democracy, management of the Secretariat, peacekeeping and humanitarian response.

There was a general consensus, underlined by the Humanitarian Response Review, that the inability to address internal displacement had become the single biggest failure in humanitarian action.

In his capacity as Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan, the Deputy Special Representative would be responsible for coordinating the humanitarian response through the United Nations country team.

In that regard, there is an urgent need for humanitarian actors to receive much needed financial support to allow the continuation of humanitarian activities and provide an improved response to humanitarian needs identified in 2005.

We have expanded and transformed the existing central humanitarian funding mechanism into the new Central Emergency Response Fund.

The Australian Government considers more effective coordination, in particular a stronger Humanitarian Coordinator system, essential to improving response.

Strengthening the effectiveness of the United Nations humanitarian response, inter alia, by improving the timeliness and predictability of humanitarian funding, in part by improving the Central Emergency Revolving Fund

A comprehensive humanitarian response review is currently under way and its findings will be made available in June 2005.

Those should form part of a comprehensive package of response to the relief and development dimensions of humanitarian disasters.

We welcome the recommendations of the Humanitarian Response Review on filling those gaps in the existing arrangements where responsibility for certain vital sectors for humanitarian assistance and protection remains unclear.

Neither of these two issues CERF or the Consolidated Appeal Process was explicitly addressed in the Humanitarian Response Review, although addressing them is critical to ensuring more effective humanitarian action.