Humanitarian Coordination - Lessons from Recent Field Experience

Author(s)
Reindorp, N. and Wiles, P
Publication language
English
Pages
89pp
Date published
01 Jun 2001
Publisher
Overseas Development Institute
Type
After action & learning reviews
Keywords
Coordination, Development & humanitarian aid
Countries
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Somalia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Organisations
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

The purpose of the study is to:
1. Draw lessons from recent experiences in humanitarian coordination.
2. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of UN coordination models – that is, the
Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator or so-called ‘combined model’, the model where the Humanitarian Coordinator is separate from the Resident Coordinator, and the ‘lead agency model’ – in particular circumstances.
3. Identify features of coordination arrangements which have provided ‘added value’.