DOCO’s Crisis and Post Conflict provides targeted support to Resident Coordinators and RC Offices/UNCTs operating in transition countries, mainly in the areas of strategic planning (both national and UN), coordination structures and capacity, and financing mechanisms for transition. Through the UNDG-ECHA Working Group on Transition CPC has also developed policy guidance on transition issues. |
Working with RCs and UNCTs along the following three service lines:
On behalf of UNDG, Resident Coordinators and RC offices, the CPC plays an HQ liaison role with a number of UN departments and units, including UNDP/BCPR, DPKO, DPA, OCHA and the PBSO. Tasks include:
Finally, CPC facilitates a number of country specific inter-agency working groups designed to share information and mobilize system wide support for RC offices and UN Country Teams. |
The UNDG-ECHA Working Group on Transition, co-chaired by DOCO and OCHA, embodies a partnership between the development, political, peacebuilding, peacekeeping and humanitarian actors of the broader UN system to develop policy, guidelines, and tools in support of countries in post-crisis transition settings. The DOCO Crisis and Post Conflict Cluster serves as its permanent Secretariat. This Working Group has a hybrid nature, as it is linked to both the UNDG and ECHA (the Executive Committee on Humanitarian Affairs). This hybrid nature reflects constellation of actors which is required to effectively address transitions, which are by nature multi-dimensional and call for a response that encompasses these different dimensions. |
The Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) have many opportunities to strengthen their collaboration, particularly in post-conflict and transition countries. To promote this better understanding of each other’s work and in particular to explore ways in which there could be better cooperation and collaboration within the existing assessment and planning processes, DPA and UNDOCO are organizing a working session in August 2008. Topics CPC covers in particular the following areas of work:
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Joint Letter signed by Valerie Amos and Helen Clark on the World Humanitarian Summit
May 2014
This initiative of the Secretary-General also comes at an opportune time to maximize system-wide synergies within a forward-looking agenda for Post-2015, with widespread recognition that the humanitarian landscape has changed tremendously and that humanitarian action will need to adapt as needed, to be more effective to keep pace with a rapidly changing context that demands inclusive partnerships and new innovative approaches to optimize how the UN works on the ground.
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