Sahel Crisis - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 2012

With CIDA support the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is mobilizing and coordinating humanitarian response to the food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel in partnership with national and international organizations in the region. In addition to coordinating humanitarian activities OCHA manages and monitors the humanitarian appeal process supports inter-agency collaboration and the cluster (sectoral) approach and facilitates resource mobilization in support of relief efforts in the region.

Expected outputs for this project include: strengthened coordinated and effective humanitarian response to the food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.