Emergency relief

Emergency relief cannot be supplied by the international community alone.

Such initiatives should be linked to development plans and take the form of emergency and post emergency relief.

We have often discussed the gap between emergency relief and development.

Consider organizations that regulate medical licenses or administer medical emergency relief funds.

Ireland will place an even stronger emphasis on emergency and humanitarian relief.

Briefing by the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

Briefing by the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

In addition to emergency relief, many survivors need psychological rehabilitation, medicines and medical treatment.

As a result, emergency relief evaluations often rely on little more than guesswork and assumptions.

Estimates show that emergency relief in famines costs seven times as much as preventing them.

We immediately sent emergency relief assistance, consisting principally of medicines and other urgently needed items.

My Government strongly supports the role of local and global civil society in emergency relief.

CARE, as both a relief and development agency, can take a long term approach to disasters, matching emergency relief with a rehabilitation and recovery phase.

Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster

Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster

In 2001, a dedicated IDP Unit was created within OCHA to support the Emergency Relief Coordinator.

At the same time, 1 million was intended to go to the Emergency Disaster Relief Fund.

The international community has responded positively and strongly with an unprecedented global humanitarian emergency relief effort.

We highly commend the fast, coordinated and effective emergency relief efforts of the United Nations system.

Group of 77 (meeting with the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the Central Emergency Response Fund) (at the expert level)

The just concluded visit by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, focused on the humanitarian situation, was also welcome.

Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the South Asian earthquake disaster Pakistan

Recognizing that there is a clear relationship between emergency relief and rehabilitation and development and that in order to ensure a smooth transition from relief to rehabilitation and development, emergency assistance should be provided in ways supportive of recovery and long term development,

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(a) Urgently mobilize further additional resources to meet the emergency relief needs of victims in the affected countries

For its part, Azerbaijan has allocated 1 million to United Nations emergency humanitarian assistance for immediate relief needs.

It is a simple message. Emergency relief must be built into national programmes of preparedness and risk reduction.

The current disaster relief efforts have brought to the fore the increasingly vital role played by civil society and non governmental organizations in providing effective emergency relief and rehabilitation.

Recognizing the need in emergency situations to ensure the smooth transition from relief to rehabilitation and development so as to reduce dependence on external food aid and other relief services,

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Similarly, many of the countries attending the EAS stressed the need for response capabilities, such as emergency disaster relief.

The United States followed several years later, during the Great Depression, with emergency relief for those struck the hardest.

The Guide has been designed to assist businesses in identifying effective ways to support United Nations emergency relief efforts.

The opportunity exists to better engage businesses in emergency relief efforts in other parts of the world as well.

The increase in aid, however, must not be limited to debt forgiveness, technical assistance and emergency and humanitarian relief.

We applaud the proposal put forward by Mr. Jan Egeland, Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for renaming the upgraded Fund as the Central Emergency Response Fund.

We congratulate the Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Inter Agency Standing Committee on their efforts to advance the cluster approach.

Importantly, it recognizes that emergency relief is just the tip of the iceberg of the true impact of this disaster.

The situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was dangerous and difficult and the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator considered that the country was facing the world's most serious humanitarian emergency.

An area of particular interest in the past year has been the Humanitarian Response Review commissioned by the Emergency Relief Coordinator.

First, while emergency relief is the first priority, plans for rehabilitation and reconstruction in the devastated countries have to be developed.

In the first phase, during the war itself, aid is for humanitarian relief, focusing on food, water, emergency medicine, and refugee camps.