OCHA - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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5 January 2011 - Pakistan recently experienced the worst monsoon flooding in its history. At its height, over 20 million people were affected, and over 7 million people were made homeless by the flooding. While most of the flood-affected people have returned to their home areas, approximately 14 million people still require humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs, and to begin the process of resuming their normal lives. CIDA is supporting the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is the UN agency responsible for the overall coordination of operations in response to humanitarian crises. In Pakistan, OCHA is leading humanitarian coordination mechanisms at the global, national and local levels, developing and revising the humanitarian and early recovery response plan, providing timely multi-cluster needs assessments, and communicating floods response activities to all stakeholders, including flood-affected populations.