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Iraq: Inter-Cluster Coordination Group - Terms of reference – 2020 Format 1. INTRODUCTION The Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) in Iraq is a country-specific supplement to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) global standard ICCG ToRs of 2015. The ToR was agreed by the ICCG on 13 February 2020 and endorsed by the HC and HCT on 5 April 2020. The ToRs seek to ensure that the humanitarian coordination architecture in Iraq is fit for purpose, enabling clusters and other relevant partners to achieve principled, predictable, timely, effective, concerte...

South Sudan Nutrition Cluster: 2021 Gender-Based Violence (GBV) ACTION PLANS Format BACKGROUND In South Sudan, the cumulative effects of years of conflict, violence and destroyed livelihoods has led to a humanitarian emergency of high proportions. The launch of the National Development Strategy 2018-2021 with the overall objective of consolidating peace and stabilizing the economy echoes the peace optimism including new opportunities “Improved food security and livelihoods, and revitalize the national economy” in the coming years for South Sudan’s women, men and children. Nutrition, gen...

Everyone’s doing stuff but nobody’s accountable – will Grand Bargain 2.0 set us right? Format The international humanitarian community is gearing up for a reset of the Grand Bargain. The review is on cue. Over the past couple of decades, new humanitarian reform initiatives have succeeded one another every five years or so. The challenge for negotiators now is to ensure that Grand Bargain 2.0 breaks out of this relentless boom-to-bust reform dynamic and provides a credible pathway to change. Putting people at the centre is acknowledged as essential, yet the prevailing approach to account...

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 ge...

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 estab...