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The 'Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' ('OCHA') is a United Nations branch that was formed in December 1991 by General Assembly Resolution 46/182. The resolution was designed to strengthen the United Nations' response to complex emergencies and natural disasters by creating the 'Department of Humanitarian Affairs' ('DHA'), and replacing the 'Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator', which had been formed in 1972. OThe CHA was therefore the result of a 1998 reorganisation of the DHA and was designed to be the UN focal point on major disasters. Its mandate was also expanded to include the coordination of humanitarian response, policy development and humanitarian advocacy.
OCHA has some 860 staff, distributed across the world, with soem support staff in New York City and Geneva. Major OCHA country offices are located in Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, the Palestinian territories, Sudan including a sub-office in Southern Sudan's capital Juba. Regional offices are located in Panama City, Dakar, Nairobi, Dubai, and Bangkok.
The ReliefWeb team which does the webpage that provides information on natural disasters and complex emergencies is located in New York, Geneva and Kobe, Japan. Its 2005 budget was some USD 110 million, mostly received directly from UN member states. OCHA is headed by the Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, currently John Holmes. The OCHA created the Integrated Regional Information Networks project in late 1995 to provide information targeted for those working on humanitarian emergencies.

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★ The OCHA official web site

★ ReliefWeb