Environment and Humanitarian Action - Increasing effectiveness, sustainability and accountability

This study commissioned by the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit (in collaboration with Groupe URD and Proact Network) and with the financial support of the Government of Finland seeks to examine the current state of integration of environmental considerations in humanitarian operations and to recommend collective action to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and sustainability of humanitarian action. It examines some of the achievements to date and proposes—based on extensive consultations – how the future agenda might be defined.