When Trade Saves Lives: Humanitarian Logistics
Natural disasters and conflicts trigger humanitarian responses across the globe, and this requires extensive coordination especially for logistics.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) coordinates the global emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crises. The current international humanitarian coordination system was set by General Assembly resolution 46/182 in December 1991. In 2005, a major reform of humanitarian coordination introduced several new elements to enhance predictability, accountability, and partnership.
During the reform, the Cluster Approach was one of the new elements introduced. Clusters are groups of humanitarian organizations, both UN and non-UN, in each of the main sector
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