 | Meeting the Humanitarian Challenge - UNV's Work Between Conflict and Development (United Nations Volunteers, 44 p.) |
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| | Foreword |
|  | Introduction |
| | Global context and role of the United Nations system |
| | Background to UNV involvement in humanitarian assistance |
| | Basic objective of UNVs humanitarian relief |
| | Progress in implementation of the approach |
| | Features of UNV humanitarian assistance |
| | Range of services - ways in which UNV specialists make a difference |
| | UNV humanitarian action in the field: Effort and impact |
| | The link to development: UNDP's strategic role |
| | Supporting field coordination of response to complex emergencies |
| | Identifying the neediest and their survival strategies |
| | Re-focusing and fine-tuning relief efforts |
| | Delivery of urgent relief supplies to emergency victims |
| | Shelter and services for refugees and displacees |
| | Repatriation/return of refugees and displacees |
| | Monitoring and promoting respect for human rights, and enabling protection |
| | Confidence- and capacity-building at community level |
| | Preventing conflict and mending bridges between communities |
| | Focusing on the special needs of women and vulnerable groups |
| | Education as therapy and for employment |
| | Restoring food self-sufficiency |
| | Rebuilding primary health care and preventing epidemics |
| | Developing new opportunities for sustainable recovery |
| | Current concerns and future perspectives |
| | Drawing from experience in the field |
| | Reducing scope for conflict: demobilisation |
| | Participatory peace-building dynamics |
| | Promoting human rights and education for peace |
| | Disaster prevention and preparedness at community level |
| | Putting human development back on the agenda |
| | Administrative support to UNVs in humanitarian assignments |
| | H... for Humanity: serving a purpose... for millions in need |
| | Acronyms |
Basic objective of UNVs humanitarian relief
A basic objective is immediately to respond to the front-line UN system agencies in their urgent requests for specialised personnel for speedy humanitarian deployment. The primary functions of UNV's Humanitarian Relief Unit are to recruit, deploy, and administer UNVs as individuals and in teams for assignments of variable duration according to need (e.g. 3-6 months, or more). Assignments in support of capacity-building for prevention, preparedness and mitigation of disaster may be longer.
Refugee children from Somalia
To provide its response capacity, UNV has established a facility for rapid recruitment and support, using a pool of pre-cleared candidates on stand-by. This includes the composition and orientation of emergency response teams for rapid deployment. UNV has comparative advantage in recruiting, training, deploying and administering volunteer-specialist humanitarian teams, UNV develops project concepts and documents, and engages in other programming activity, especially in relation to programmes to build capacity in disaster-prone countries for disaster prevention, preparedness, and mitigation.
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