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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Index United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disasters. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 53 relations: Accountability, Advocacy, Afghanistan, Bangkok, Bangladesh, Cairo, Côte d'Ivoire, Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, Central African Republic, Central Emergency Response Fund, Chad, Civil defense, Colombia, Common Operational Datasets, Continent, Corporate social responsibility, Dakar, Data set, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Geneva, Global Humanitarian Overview, Humanitarian aid, Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, Humanitarianism, Innovation, International Search and Rescue Advisory Group, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Lebanon, List of country calling codes, Martin Griffiths, Natural disaster, Palestinian territories, Panama City, Partnership, Policy, Predictability, ReliefWeb, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, The New Humanitarian, Turkey, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Sustainable Development Group, Voxbone, ... Expand index (3 more) »

  2. International organizations based in Turkey

Accountability

Accountability, in terms of ethics and governance, is equated with answerability, culpability, liability, and the expectation of account-giving.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Accountability

Advocacy

Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Advocacy

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Afghanistan

Bangkok

Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Bangkok

Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Bangladesh

Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Cairo

Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Côte d'Ivoire

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE) is a direct reporting unit to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) and principal agency to promote disaster preparedness and societal resiliency in the Asia-Pacific region.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Central African Republic

Central Emergency Response Fund

The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF/FCIU) is a humanitarian fund established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 15, 2005 and launched in March 2006.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Chad

Civil defense

Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from human-made and natural disasters.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Common Operational Datasets

Common Operational Datasets or CODs, are authoritative reference datasets needed to support operations and decision-making for all actors in a humanitarian response.

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Continent

A continent is any of several large geographical regions.

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Corporate social responsibility

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in, with, or supporting professional service volunteering through pro bono programs, community development, administering monetary grants to non-profit organizations for the public benefit, or to conduct ethically oriented business and investment practices.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Corporate social responsibility

Dakar

Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

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Data set

A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Ethiopia

Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Geneva

Global Humanitarian Overview

Global Humanitarian Overview is an annual report published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need.

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Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks

Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) is an annual event organized the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism is an ideology centered on the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans to reduce suffering and improve the conditions of humanity for moral, altruistic, and emotional reasons.

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Innovation

Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.

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International Search and Rescue Advisory Group

The International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) is a network of disaster-prone and disaster-responding countries and organizations dedicated to urban search and rescue (USAR) and operational field coordination.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Search and Rescue Advisory Group

Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Istanbul

Johannesburg

Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Johannesburg

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur; 吉隆坡联邦直辖区; கோலாலம்பூர் கூட்டரசு பிரதேசம்) and colloquially referred to as KL, is a federal territory and the capital city of Malaysia.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Kuala Lumpur

Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Lebanon

List of country calling codes

Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.

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Martin Griffiths

Martin Griffiths (born 3 July 1951) is a British diplomat and served as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Martin Griffiths

Natural disaster

A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Natural disaster

Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories, also known as the Occupied Palestinian Territory, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Palestinian territories

Panama City

Panama City, also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Panama City

Partnership

A partnership is an agreement where parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.

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Policy

Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.

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Predictability

Predictability is the degree to which a correct prediction or forecast of a system's state can be made, either qualitatively or quantitatively.

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ReliefWeb

ReliefWeb (RW) is a humanitarian information portal founded in 1996.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Sri Lanka

Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Sudan

Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Syria

The New Humanitarian

The New Humanitarian, previously known as IRIN News, or Integrated Regional Information Networks News, is an independent, non-profit news agency.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and The New Humanitarian

Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Turkey

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator is a high-level position in the United Nations that heads the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations

United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.

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United Nations Sustainable Development Group

The United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), previously the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), is a consortium of 36 United Nations funds, programmes, specialized agencies, departments and offices that play a role in development. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Sustainable Development Group are United Nations Development Group.

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Voxbone

Voxbone S.A. is a global communication as a service (CaaS) company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandwidth, Inc., with offices in locations including Brussels, London, San Francisco, Austin, Simi Valley, Dublin, Singapore and Iași.

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World Humanitarian Summit

The United Nations World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 23 and 24, 2016. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and World Humanitarian Summit are United Nations Development Group.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Zimbabwe

2020 Beirut explosion

On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.

See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and 2020 Beirut explosion

See also

International organizations based in Turkey

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Office_for_the_Coordination_of_Humanitarian_Affairs

Also known as +888, Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Humanitarian Data Exchange, OCHA, OCHA OpT, OCHAoPt, Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-Ordinator, Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator, Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, RRMP, Rapid Response to Population Movements, UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs, UN OCHA, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN/OCHA, UNDRO, UNOCHA, United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

, World Humanitarian Summit, Zimbabwe, 2020 Beirut explosion.