Ensuring capacity for emergency response

4. Inter agency emergency response teams

During this plan period, UNICEF will seek to increase the ratio of investment in learning from the current 1.4 per cent of staff post costs to 2 per cent.

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The use of inter agency emergency response teams

Plant operators and national regulators are being scrutinized more critically.

The capacity of UNICEF to respond effectively to emergencies

Several speakers called for strengthening of UNICEF emergency response systems.

Through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), it was supporting efforts to boost agricultural productivity.

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Access to resources is, however, a prerequisite for a prompt response to emergencies.

UNHCR and other organizations continued to update contingency plans for those volatile situations and, where necessary, emergency response mechanisms were put into action.

The crisis in Darfur tested the limits of the UNICEF emergency response capacity.

There was a lack of integrated emergency response capability at the site and nationally.

The UNICEF emergency response capacity was strengthened by a new Emergency Response Team and stand by arrangements for rapid deployment of personnel.

Several speakers highlighted in particular the headway made in emergency and post conflict situations.

Emergency

Finally, we welcome the General Assembly's establishment of the Central Emergency Response Fund to respond to disasters and humanitarian emergencies.

The international community should equip itself with more efficient means to respond in a prompt way to humanitarian emergencies world wide.

Building on its HR strategy for 2002 2005, UNICEF will ensure the timely recruitment, deployment and management of competent, committed staff members operating in a supportive work environment, including in emergency situations.

This will, we believe, significantly contribute to achieving a more predictable, timely response to humanitarian emergencies.

It has been proved that the leadership role of the Department is absolutely vital for the development of effective mechanisms to respond to all emergency situations.

The instructions shall include at least emergency cases

The Deputy High Commissioner added her assurances that the deployment schemes, which were necessary for flexibility and response to emergencies, would not be affected by the recommendation to discontinue project posts.

Utilize integrated screening technology, interagency consultation, and intelligence and law enforcement coordination in the visa adjudication process.

Disaster management agencies.

8. The need for a close relationship between the humanitarian and the political in responding to crises was evident.

In recent years, we have witnessed the establishment of new coordination machinery in the area of the international community apos s response to emergency situations.

We support the modernization of the current CERF so that it can respond rapidly to emergencies, particularly forgotten or underfunded emergencies, many of which are in Africa.

Homeland security Schneier has said that homeland security money should be spent on intelligence, investigation, and emergency response.

85. Reliable and timely information is of key importance for responding effectively to emergencies and for taking the necessary preventive action.

Improvement of the existing stand by capacity mechanisms is a key element in rapid response to disasters and emergencies.

We welcome the measures that the Department of Humanitarian Affairs is taking to strengthen the potential of the United Nations to react rapidly to sudden onset emergencies.

Article 19 Emergency situations

Article 19 Emergency situations

Complex humanitarian emergencies

COMPLEX HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES

The first problem is there's inadequate disaster response.

The General Assembly, by that resolution, provided the United Nations with the necessary set of instruments for a coherent and timely response to humanitarian emergencies.

Staff security and well being are of utmost concern to UNICEF.

Article 11 Situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies

Prompt and effective response to complex emergencies

II. APPROPRIATE AND TIMELY EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Stresses the importance of rapid access to funds to ensure a more predictable and timely United Nations response to humanitarian emergencies

Also, 180 doctors from a Chinese emergency response team and search and rescue dogs were dispatched, with volunteers mobilized from other parts of the country.