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OCHA - Coordination of humanitarian affairs

The humanitarian assistance of the United Nations is a complex interaction of UN programmes and agencies, non-governmental organizations, the governments concerned and the affected population. The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) serves as the coordinating body of international humanitarian assistance in complex emergencies and natural disasters.

OCHA is headed by an Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator who is holding the chair of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC).The Committee is an inter-agency forum with representatives of key UN agencies and other appropriate actors developing humanitarian policies and allocating division of responsibility.

OCHA monitors humanitarian developments throughout the world and has developed an effective early warning system on emergencies.

More on UN and OCHA

  • OCHA. Background information and news and documents and reports.
  • OCHA administers the database ReliefWeb, the leading gateway to information on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. It is updated around the clock from three different time zones. ReliefWeb offers information about:
  • The New Humanitarian Independent journalism reporting on humanitarian crisis, conflicts and disasters. (Formerly IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Network and partof the United Nations until the end of 2014.)

UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases

  • United Nations Digital Library. UN official documents and open access publications, UN maps, UN voting data and speeches.
  • UN iLibrary. UN publications online covering different topics.
  • ODS. UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
  • Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
  • UNBIS Thesaurus is a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
  • Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
    • a list of all documents
    • a comprehensive subject index
    • an index to speeches
    • a voting chart of resolutions

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