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The fourth Progress Report for the Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) for COVID-19 is now available, LINK

Since the humanitarian community came together in March and launched the first COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP), the virus has unfortunately impacted global economies and societies.  Millions of people have been pushed to…

The interactive e-Learning Course on Humanitarian Cash Transfer ( HCT) is now available on AGORA.

This 2 hour course covers the fundamentals on Humanitarian Cash Transfers (HCT). It provides a first introduction to what are HCT, and how UNICEF uses them in a humanitarian response as an implementation modality across sectors. It includes considerations…

The strategic intent of the Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance for the 2021-2023 period has been developed over the past several months.  As a result of this process, a decision was taken to rename the initiative the Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance, to better reflect the connection to the GNC, and the collaborative spirit of the…

These messages address the climate change related concerns in the context of humanitarian action and  COVID-19. The objective of these key messages is to facilitate consistent messaging among IASC members during upcoming climate change events in 2020. This includes the announcement of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UK Prime Minister…

Message on behalf of Alice Armanni Sequi, Chief of OCHA Pooled Fund Management Branch

I am writing to formally share with you the updated CERF Life-Saving Criteria, approved by the Emergency Relief Coordinator. As many of you know, the previous version of the Life-Saving Criteria had been drafted in 2009. The recent updating has been…