The United Nations Resident Coordinator plays a key role in coordinating international assistance.

To that end, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has commissioned a review of the international humanitarian response system.

On the United Nations side, the missions were led by the Special Representative of the Secretary General, for the west, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General Resident Coordinator Humanitarian Coordinator, for the north, and the Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, for the south.

The Humanitarian Coordinator for Haiti presented a concrete example of how transition programming, following a natural disaster, is being tackled in the field.

The Department sponsors a Security Information Group composed of the following offices and departments of the Secretariat the Department of Political Affairs, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Department of Safety and Security and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

In his capacity as Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan, the Deputy Special Representative would be responsible for coordinating the humanitarian response through the United Nations country team.

My delegation is particularly pleased that the United Nations system, especially the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), responded promptly and in a manner that has done our Organization proud.

This has now merged with the Subregional Humanitarian Coordination Group which meets once a month under the chairmanship of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

In general, it is the relevant United Nations country team, under the leadership of the humanitarian coordinator, which is best placed to identify the opportunities and constraints.

The Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator was created in 1988 and has the responsibility to coordinate and manage the United Nations security management system.

It was also noted that interaction between troop contributing countries and Secretariat bodies involved in peacekeeping operations, such as the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, should be encouraged.

In general, it was the relevant United Nations country team, led by the humanitarian coordinator, which was best placed to identify the opportunities and constraints.

The first phase of the ICRIN project has been completed, thanks to funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Welcoming the progress made by the Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat in strengthening the coordination of humanitarian assistance of the United Nations,

5. Welcomes the progress made by the Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat in strengthening the coordination of humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

In those emergencies and some 27 others, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is providing support to United Nations country teams through the resident and humanitarian coordinators.

Canada strongly supports the Secretary General's proposal to expand the Central Emergency Revolving Fund (CERF) and appreciates the efforts made by OCHA to incorporate Member States' views in the report.

2. Also welcomes the progress made by the Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat in strengthening the coordination of humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

WFP has advocated for full respect for its humanitarian principles in the design and implementation of integrated missions and has continued to work with the Emergency Relief Coordinator on the selection process for Humanitarian Coordinators.

In an effort to facilitate a more effective international response to the protection and assistance needs of internally displaced persons, in July 2004 the Emergency Relief Coordinator established the Inter Agency Internal Displacement Division within OCHA.

At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.

let his heart be changed from man's, and let an animal's heart be given to him and let seven times pass over him.

Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him and let seven times pass over him.

The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of MINUSTAH, Juan Gabriel Valdes, and the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General and United Nations Resident Coordinator Humanitarian Coordinator, Adama Guindo, hosted the mission.

With financial support from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UNDP Russian Federation office is helping to establish a business promotion centre and microcredit facility in the Bryansk oblast.

We are strongly supportive of the coordination role of the United Nations in the emergency response and would particularly like to recognize the contribution that Mr. Jan Egeland, Emergency Relief Coordinator and head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, has made.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power

On the occasion of the eighteenth anniversary, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, in partnership with UNDP and with the participation of the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, organized a high visibility commemoration in the General Assembly Hall.

The Mission is headed by the Special Representative of the Secretary General at the Under Secretary General level assisted by a Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General and a Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (Resident Coordinator Humanitarian Coordinator) at the Assistant Secretary General level.

In Uganda, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) convened a workshop on the protection of civilians, in Kampala in September 2004, for national and local government officials, United Nations agencies, NGOs and civil society.

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Mr. Virgílio Elias Virgílio Salomão Coordinator

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Coordinator of the project to reorganize the defence capability

He would takes the fruits of each week's reading and he would weave these intricate tapestries of ancient and humanist thought.

The Coordinator of the Panel of Counsel in Vienna has also requested assistance from the New York Coordinator as there are difficulties in finding adequate Panel of Counsel membership.

Currently, a new coordinator is to be appointed.

In listening to his briefings on many occasions, we have noted a common thread running through his presentations his great sympathy and concern for suffering people and his willingness to fully carry out the role of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in order to alleviate that suffering.

Nevertheless, efforts have been undertaken to strengthen the accountability of the system at the operational level, with the designation of lead agencies accountable for various sectors at a country level in any given situation of displacement to the humanitarian coordinator.

For this purpose, the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security, managed by the Human Security Unit of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has been providing support for projects carried out by United Nations organizations in post conflict countries, such as the Sudan, Burundi and Liberia.

But the demagogues are right about one thing We need a universal conception of human values.

And because walking was one of the first things I lost, I spent most of that year thinking about this most elemental of human acts.