Strengthening the capacity and coordination within the national response to HIV AIDS.

However, in practice, the UN response will be coordinated by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), by deploying a UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team, in response to a request by the affected country's government.

Her Government supported the idea of establishing an international entity for global coordination of disaster response services.

Reforms are under way to enhance response capacity, develop more predictable humanitarian financing and strengthen humanitarian coordination.

In response to an OIOS recommendation, the Coordination Unit at ECA headquarters was established to address the issue.

(d) Formalize international collaboration and coordination to reduce response burden and make the most efficient use of existing resources

Panel presentation on the response of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination to the Millennium Declaration

Noting with appreciation the efforts made by the United Nations to improve humanitarian response, including by strengthening humanitarian response capacities, by improving humanitarian coordination and by enhancing predictable and adequate funding,

Noting with appreciation the efforts made by the United Nations to improve humanitarian response, including by strengthening humanitarian response capacities, by improving humanitarian coordination, and by enhancing predictable and adequate funding,

So the coordination response asks not, how are these people as employees, but rather, what is their contribution like? Right?

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

Those exercises test national structures for nuclear power plant emergency response and have yielded significant improvements in international coordination and communications.

On coordination capacity, often a complex challenge, the response to recent disasters has shown that there is always room for improvement.

Some level of policy coordination might be achieved by an early warning system, which would provide sufficient time for an organized response.

In emergencies, UNICEF will ensure that national sector coordination mechanisms are activated quickly and used as the basis for the emergency response.

With regard to rapid response capacity, the Committee trusts that there will be coordination and information sharing with regional and country offices.

Strong United Nations country teams, coordination among agencies and the decisive leadership of affected governments helped to ensure a timely, effective response.

Strengthening Headquarters and field coordination structures and the leadership role of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator and promoting monitoring response and accountability

Those units work in close coordination with the regional advisers for disaster reduction of the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs regional disaster response advisers.

In response, the existing bodies are vigorously defending their autonomy, resisting any attempts to impose on them a modicum of coordination and discipline.

In emergency situations, UNICEF will continue to be active in urban areas as determined by the CCCs and national emergency response coordination agreements.

The large number of often diverse actors creates acute coordination challenges, particularly during the first weeks of the response to a sudden onset disaster.

The Government participates in a coordinated national network involved in emergency planning, training and response, and coordination lead by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

However, the results of these regional coordination meetings indicate that effectiveness of the United Nations system's response would certainly increase if policies and activities were better coordinated.

Consistent with the Mission's mandate, the UNMEE Mine Action Coordination Centre ensured the implementation of a well coordinated United Nations mine action response in the Mission area.

Strengthening Headquarters and field coordination structures and the leadership role of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator and promoting monitoring response and accountability in close collaboration with Governments

Coordination, capacity and financing are also critical during this period, and we must all work together to ensure that transition is managed as effectively as emergency response.

A positive response to most of the questions also indicates that there were some mechanisms to ensure coordination and participation of relevant authorities and sectors of society.

9. Welcomes the role of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat as the focal point within the overall United Nations system for the promotion and coordination of disaster response among United Nations humanitarian organizations and other humanitarian partners

10. Welcomes the adoption of new coordination mechanisms aimed at ensuring a coherent and effective response to the multifaceted humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, through its inter agency Internal Displacement Division, also continued its efforts to support the effective implementation of a collaborative response.

Within the framework of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, UNODC is coordinating the United Nations response to actions regarding the curbing of transnational crime.

13. Welcomes the role of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat as the focal point within the overall United Nations system for the promotion and coordination of disaster response preparedness among the United Nations humanitarian agencies and other humanitarian partners

14. Welcomes the role of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat as the focal point within the overall United Nations system for the promotion and coordination of disaster response among the United Nations humanitarian agencies and other humanitarian partners

In paragraph 709, the Board recommends that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs systematically assess the performance of members of United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination teams and use that assessment as a basis for sending response teams to a disaster zone.

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.

Once the relevant threats were acknowledged and defined, focal points for coordination, information exchange and emergency response must be identified within the host country's security and law enforcement authorities.

The UNICEF role in emergencies should increasingly focus on planning, short term response, medium term coordination, and long term support for the transition from an emergency to a development programme.

To identify systemic barriers, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has commissioned a system wide study, to be completed in 2005, which will examine international humanitarian response capacity.

These checks are carried out with emphasis on the enhanced coordination of efforts on regional and international level in order to strengthen the global response to terrorism (  4, Resolution 1373).

In 2005, Bahrain, as one of the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), agreed to intensify coordination in the fight against terrorism in response to instability in the region.

Beyond serving as a forum for sharing information and identifying issues of common concern, these meetings have not fully realized their objective as an instrument for joint response and strategic coordination.

It is recognized that coordination is equally imperative and important at the country level, where effective joint action by all government sectors, civil society and the private sector drive the response.

At its 13th meeting, on 1 July, the Council held a panel presentation on the response of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) to the Millennium Declaration.

While the provision of water may take precedence in the early stages of an emergency, sanitation and hygiene inputs are also critically important, as is strengthening national institutional response and coordination capacity.