2 May 2021
Are you striving to catalyse positive change for gender equality in humanitarian action? Are you a senior professional with programming expertise and the political acumen to facilitate inter-agency processes and consensus?
The Inter-Agency Standby Committee (IASC) Gender Capacity Stand-by Project (GenCap), a long-standing collaborative partnership between the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), envisions a world in which humanitarian action prioritizes gender equality. To help ensure the centrality of gender in humanitarian response, the project works to strengthen inter-agency leadership, programmes and localization strategies by providing direct support to field operations through the deployment of Senior Gender Advisers who work closely with Resident and Humanitarian Coordinators (RC/HCs), Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTSs), and other stakeholders, including national partners.
Aim: The Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) in Iraq aims to promote a coordinated response to humanitarian operations across sectors to ensure that the humanitarian response is delivered in line with global norms and standards, joint strategic planning, priorities and targets through the Humanitarian Programme Cycle;
Membership: The ICCG is chaired by the OCHA Head of Office/Deputy Head of Office, with OCHA’s Inter-Cluster Coordination Unit serving as its secretariat. Permanent members of the ICCG are the national-level Cluster Coordinators and Co-coordinators of the officially established clusters in Iraq (CCCM, Education, Emergency Livelihoods, Food Security, Health, Protection, Shelter/NFI and WASH); the officially established sub-clusters (Child Protection; Gender-Based Violence; Housing, Land and Properties; and Mine Action); as well as the Coordinator and Co-Coordinator of the Common Coordination Services Sector. NCCI is also a member of the ICCG, representing interna
Afghanistan: Humanitarian Response Plan 2018-2021 (2020 Year End Monitoring Report)
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Summary
Humanitarian needs driven and exacerbated by conflict, natural disasters and the multi-dimensional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to affect millions of people in Afghanistan at the end of 2020. The emergence of COVID-19 in Afghanistan resulted in a near-doubling of humanitarian need in the space of 12 months up from 9.4 million in January 2020 to 14 million in June 2020 to 18.4 million in January 2021.
In 2020, $564.5 million (50 per cent of requirements) was received from donors towards a well-coordinated response, in addition to the $96m in late funding carried over from 2019. Humanitarians used this funding to reach 11.75 million people with life-saving assistance across the country throughout the year. Despite the challenging conditions, humanitarian partners were able to exceed the planned reach outlined in the mid-year revision. This is largely due to a significant
Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan 2021 (March 2021)
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HC Foreword
At the start of 2021, Yemen is at risk of descending into deeper crisis. Recognized as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis for the past four years, the country is now hurtling towards the worst famine the world has seen in decades. Unprecedented levels of humanitarian assistance helped to avert a famine and other disasters in 2019, yet the underlying drivers of the crisis persist. As the devastating armed conflict continues, vulnerable populations are increasingly unable to cope.
Today in Yemen, 20.7 million people, two out of every three Yemenis, need some form of humanitarian and protection assistance. Of these, 12.1 million people are in acute need. More than half of the population are facing acute levels of food insecurity. Cases of acute malnutrition among children under five are the greatest ever recorded. Preventable disease is pervasive, and morbidity and mortality are increasing.