Health Cluster Co-Coordinator
The aim of a Health Cluster is to ensure a more coherent and effective humanitarian response by all international, national and local actors operating in the health cluster in areas affected by crisis.
The Cluster Co-Ordinator works in tandem with the WHO Health Cluster Coordinator providing leadership and facilitating the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response. In holding the position, the Health Cluster Co-Coordinator will have specific responsibility for ensuring that the position is informed by the partners perspective. The incumbent will also be responsible for ensuring that the cluster membership is contributing to and sharing Cluster responsibilities, and will play a key role in developing the active engagement and technical capacity of health cluster partners / members of the Cluster.
Iraq: Health Cluster Bulletin No. 12 - December 2020
Format
The Health Cluster Coordinator and WHO GBV Technical Officer met with the policy and advocacy advisor at SEED Foundation in Erbil on 1st December to share expertise and feedback on feasible advocacy areas that SEED could consider pursuing in KRG and federal Iraq under their program seeking to support the particular needs of survivors of violence from the ISIS conflict, especially former child soldiers, children born of war, and female survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
In preparation of the HRP 2021, the Health Cluster Team shared the draft HRP 2021 objective, activities, indicators and response approach that was developed by the Cluster according to OCHA’s template, with the SAG by 1st December. The feedback was incorporated and the document was shared with OCHA subsequently.
Iraq: Health Cluster Bulletin No. 11 - November 2020
Format
The Cluster submitted to OCHA the first drafts of the narrative to the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) 2021 and the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) 2021 on the 1st and 5th of November respectively. The GHO summarizes the needs for 2021, as identified through assessments and analysis, an explanation on any changes from 2020 and what these changes in needs and context mean for the response in 2021. The HNO goes into further detail, focusing on an overview of key figures and severity, analysis and presentation of key humanitarian conditions and needs and an overview of methodology, limitations, needs monitoring and planned assessments. In addition, the below information was also submitted by clusters for development of the GHO: