Project profile — OCHA - institutional support 2025 to 2026

This grant represents Canada's long-term institutional support to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA uses these funds and other donors' funding to achieve its mandate. OCHA's primary mandate is to coordinate international humanitarian responses in partnership with national and international actors to achieve more coherent and effective humanitarian action. Project activities include: (1) coordinating the global emergency response; (2) raising awareness of forgotten crises, promoting respect for international humanitarian law, bringing the voices of affected people to the forefront and helping people access assistance; (3) mobilizing and engaging the full range of financing instruments, mechanisms and partners to meet growing needs; (4) developing policy to improve humanitarian action and decision-making; and (5) providing information management services to the humanitarian community to inform rapid, effective and principled responses.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased timely and appropriate response to humanitarian crises by the international humanitarian community; and (2) reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people, especially women and children. The expected ultimate outcome of Global Affairs Canada’s humanitarian assistance is to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintained human dignity in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.

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