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Current Humanitarian Trends and Implications for Your Work

Understand global trends and issues in humanitarian work, your role and responsibilities, and the humanitarian architecture. Identify key contacts and learn how to bridge the divide between humanitarian and development work.

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Current Humanitarian Trends and Implications for Your Work

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  1. Session 1Setting the Context

  2. Objectives At the end of this session, you will be able to: Understand current humanitarian trends and issues and the implications for your work Understand your role and responsibilities in humanitarian coordination Outline the humanitarian architecture Identify OCHA key contacts

  3. Global Trends Climate change, Population growth, Urbanization, Scarcity of natural resources… Rising number of disasters Situations of chronic vulnerability Continuous increase in humanitarian needs Rising requests for humanitarian assistance

  4. Access to affected populations and their access to humanitarian assistance is a challenge Lack of respect for humanitarian principles, international law and humanitarian law Assertion of national sovereignty

  5. Implications for the RC role Need to bridge the divide between humanitarian and development work Need to advocate and negotiate for access and protection Need for a new business model that focuses on • Prevention • Preparedness • Capacity building at local and regional level

  6. Humanitarian Coordination System Primary responsibility for coordinating humanitarian assistance rests with national authorities If international humanitarian assistance is required, you are responsible for humanitarian coordination You report to the Emergency Relief Coordinator You will be held accountable for your performance OCHA support (i) Country Office(ii) Regional Office(iii) Headquarters

  7. IASC humanitarian stakeholders Three main families: UN humanitarian agencies NGOs Red Cross/Red Crescent movement

  8. Humanitarian Principles Humanity Impartiality Neutrality Independence

  9. Response Preparedness: Lead and coordinate the preparedness efforts of all relevant actors in support of national efforts Humanitarian Coordination Responsibilities

  10. Response: Establish and lead an inclusive Humanitarian Country Team Lead the development of a strategic response plan Coordinate its implementation Raise funds for it Humanitarian Coordination Responsibilities

  11. Response: Advocate and negotiate for access and protection Lead and coordinate international recovery activities Humanitarian Coordination Responsibilities

  12. OCHA support at field level Free additional staff at short notice • to help manage coordination • to provide advice • Short- term assignments • Longer-term assignments

  13. OCHA support at HQ level The ERC can provide: (i) Strategic guidance (ii) Political support, with humanitarian agencies/organisations other parts of the UN secretariat governments (iii) Public and private advocacy to raise awareness on issues of humanitarian concern to increase funding, with member states international media

  14. OCHA Entry Points OCHA Regional Office John Ging, Director CRD Valerie Amos, ERC

  15. Any Questions? Support needed Major challenges

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