The capacity of UNICEF to respond effectively to emergencies

Secondly, the new resources will allow Ireland to respond more quickly and effectively to major humanitarian emergencies.

The quantity of resources available to respond to these emergencies has not kept pace with rising demand.

The ability to respond swiftly to such emergencies is essential and requires prompt legislative and financial authorization.

The CERF has guaranteed timely funding for relief agencies so they may respond promptly to emergencies.

In conclusion, Cambodia remains convinced that Member States will respond to emergencies and will meet their obligations.

We support the modernization of the current CERF so that it can respond rapidly to emergencies, particularly forgotten or underfunded emergencies, many of which are in Africa.

They respond to hunger emergencies such as Niger s with food relief, but fail to help with long lasting solutions.

Finally, we welcome the General Assembly's establishment of the Central Emergency Response Fund to respond to disasters and humanitarian emergencies.

During this plan period, UNICEF will continue to build its capacities to respond to emergencies in a timely and effective manner.

While strengthening its ability to respond rapidly to complex emergencies, the United Nations should also study how to strengthen its ability to respond quickly to natural disasters, especially sudden and severe ones.

At the same time, there was also a new willingness on the part of the international community to respond to emergencies.

The international community should equip itself with more efficient means to respond in a prompt way to humanitarian emergencies world wide.

Putting in place standby arrangements for personnel and equipment to ensure the capacity to respond immediately to major disasters and other emergencies

Putting in place standby arrangements for personnel and equipment to ensure the capacity to respond immediately to major disasters and other emergencies

Coordinating the various elements of the emergency relief systems was essential to the development of effective mechanisms to respond to all emergencies.

The preservation and further strengthening of the Agency's recognized capacity to contribute to human development and to respond to humanitarian emergencies is essential.

29.17 Hence, while improving its capacity to respond to emergencies, UNHCR has persisted in its determined pursuit of solutions for refugee problems.

We fully agree that the council should be in session throughout the year in order to be able to respond quickly to emergencies.

We are also strengthening our partnership agreement with WFP to ensure that, together, we are better equipped to respond to all food emergencies.

At the same time, it is important to preserve the Council apos s ability to respond effectively to emergencies that require prompt intervention.

We have to pull together, not only to respond to emergencies but also to plan for them, prevent them, contain them and end them.

Owing to these new measures UNHCR was able to respond with increasing speed and effectiveness to a relentless spate of refugee emergencies throughout 1992.

Owing to these new measures, UNHCR was able to respond with increasing speed and effectiveness to a relentless spate of refugee emergencies throughout 1992.

The international community must be assured that the United Nations and its development agencies will respond quickly to emergencies as they occur.

This was achieved through training and technical support, the development of guidelines and enhancement of the Agency's own arrangements to respond to radiological emergencies.

Through these efforts, IAEA considered that it could now also respond to nuclear security incidents outside the realm of nuclear accidents and emergencies.

Large stocks of commonly requested relief items, including vehicles, are maintained at these locations, enabling UNHCR to respond immediately to emergencies and other urgent requirements.

However, efforts to respond to such emergencies have often not been given proper attention, nor have adequate resources been provided to aid vulnerable populations in need.

UNICEF depends on core resources to carry out its commitments to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and to maintain readiness and strengthen capacities to respond to emergencies.

The major emergencies of the new decade have underscored the need for UNICEF to be equipped and prepared to respond rapidly to both large and smaller scale humanitarian crises, in accordance with its 2004 Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies (CCCs).

In order to respond promptly and effectively to humanitarian crises, particularly at the early stage of emergencies, the relief agencies must have adequate financial resources available.

to complex emergencies

The services were intended to respond to slow onset disasters such as famine and desertification, as well as to sudden emergencies such as tsunamis, earthquakes and floods.

Fifthly, and lastly, the Secretary General apos s report deals very comprehensively with issues related to the United Nations capability to respond effectively and efficiently to emergencies.

It is clear that serious challenges still lie ahead, especially in securing predictable funding in order to respond to humanitarian emergencies in a timely, efficient and effective manner.

During the past year, UNHCR apos s capacity to respond to emergencies has been tested with some success in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Ghana, Benin, Uganda and Liberia.

Finally, the Nordic countries have been among the strongest supporters and advocates of a United Nations that has been strengthened in order better to respond to humanitarian emergencies.

It covers issues related to humanitarian emergencies to enable us to assess and review the activities of the United Nations and humanitarian agencies and, most important, it indicates to us that the way to respond to complex emergencies in time is to establish strong and effective coordination mechanisms.

For Iceland, the ideal Human Rights Council would be smaller than the Commission and would be in session all year so that it could respond to emergencies.

For more than a decade, the Fund has played an important role in providing United Nations agencies with readily available resources to allow them to respond quickly to humanitarian emergencies.

(c) Although FAO and donors are willing to respond quickly to desert locust emergencies, there are inevitably delays in arranging funding, hiring staff and purchasing pesticides, equipments and supplies

EPF provides UNICEF with a minimum level of capacity and flexibility to respond rapidly at the onset of emergencies, especially those for which no appeals have been launched.

For more than a decade, the Central Emergency Revolving Fund has played an important role in providing agencies with readily available resources to allow them to respond quickly to humanitarian emergencies.

UNICEF expressed concern that a very low level in the CERF reserve would affect the capacities of the operational organizations to respond to ongoing as well as possible future emergencies.