Regional Appeal - OCHA 2012

With CIDA support the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in partnership with national and international actors oversees the coordination of humanitarian action in order to promote more effective and principled humanitarian response. Project activities focus on: the introduction of OCHA’s minimum preparedness package in disaster-prone countries which seeks to build the capacity of national authorities and Humanitarian Country Teams and better align approaches among international regional and national partners; increasing the pools of qualified and experienced coordination staff ready for rapid deployment; and working with national regional and global response organizations to increase their awareness of how the international humanitarian system works and the services and tools they can use in a crisis.

Expected outputs include: Humanitarian coordination leaders are enabled to respond to emergencies in a more timely and coordinated fashion; Regional Offices receive appropriate staffing levels to ensure swift well-managed deployments to crisis-affected countries; more reliable and timely information is available to better support vulnerability analysis for better preparedness and response; regional bodies and national governments are more willing and better able to gain access to international humanitarian response services and tools before during and after crises; and an increase in the resources and support available for emergency response and preparedness from a wider group of Member States private sector organizations and civil society actors. The expected intermediate outcome is the improved effectiveness of humanitarian action by the international humanitarian system.