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| People struck by natural disasters and armed conflicts count on coordinated and effective assistance and protection. Over the past decades, United Nations agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, NGOs, and donors have undertaken great efforts to strengthen the coordination of humanitarian planning, fundraising and response. Through increased inclusiveness and better coordination among all stakeholders, the priorities and responsibilities of each component are specified, and gaps and duplications in aid provision and funding can be reduced. This way the overall impact of humanitarian action is greater than the sum of their parts. For this aim, OCHA was set up. Through approved structures and policies set out by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), OCHA carries out its coordination role by developing common strategies, assessing situations and needs, and also through consolidated appeals, field coordination arrangements and the development of humanitarian policies. In recent years, the humanitarian community has placed an increased emphasis on disaster preparedness. Together with governments of disaster-prone countries humanitarian stakeholders have worked out numerous contingency planning instruments and strategies, in order to minimize human loss in case of emergencies. This includes making hospitals and schools more resistant against earthquakes, setting up tsunami alarm systems, and promoting in-country capacity building. After the emergency phase is over, many people still need assistance to reconstruct their lives. Returning refugees need seeds, agricultural equipment, live-stock, or small loans to get started again. Children have to go to go to school, specialists need to be trained, the infrastructure needs to be repaired, etc. Now, the country government, international agencies, organizations and banks specialized in recovery, reconstruction and development, are getting active. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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