OCHA - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Published purpose

With CIDA support, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in partnership with national and international actors, oversees the coordination of humanitarian action in order to promote more effective and principled humanitarian response. Project activities focus on: the introduction of OCHA’s minimum preparedness package in disaster-prone countries, which seeks to build the capacity of national authorities and Humanitarian Country Teams and better align approaches among international, regional, and national partners; increasing the pools of qualified and experienced coordination staff ready for rapid deployment; and working with national, regional, and global response organizations to increase their awareness of how the international humanitarian system works and the services and tools they can use in a crisis.