Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Donor Support Team and Assistant Director General of the King Salman Center for Aid and Humanitarian Affairs for Planning and Development Dr Level of Experts at UN Headquarters in Geneva in Switzerland Confederations, in the presence of members of the donor countries (30 countries) and the participation of a group of senior officials of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. and reform in the humanitarian program cycle, as well as a donor team visit to South Sudan, and what the team saw from observations presented by OCHA, which included donor support for proactive work and the ability to save lives and reduce vulnerability and the cost of active humanitarian action in the long term; and the adoption of consistent methodologies, tools and processes to advance humanitarian action using high quality data and linking them to existing disaster risk reduction tools and instruments.
He reaffirmed the team’s desire to call on OCHA to increase country funds for activism, commending the efforts of the Emergency Relief Coordinator to allocate 10% of the budget of the Central Emergency Response Fund to activism, applauding OCHA’s efforts to reform the humanitarian programming cycle and make humanitarian work more focused .
Following this, OCHA officials presented an overview of their proactive efforts and projects currently underway in a number of countries, including South Sudan and Pacific countries, as well as the most important lessons learned and assessments based on these experiences for dissemination to other countries. .
The OCHA team presented a report on their efforts to reform the humanitarian programming cycle in a number of countries and their work to overcome the challenges faced by the humanitarian response community.
At the end of the second and final day of the donor group meeting, Dr. Al Ghamdi thanked the representatives of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the members of the donor group for their presence and valuable input over the two days. meeting of the group and invited them to participate in the sixth and final meeting of the high-level group scheduled for 17 June in Riyadh. The next meeting was attended by United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths.
