The Syrian NGO Network Engagement and Partnership Programme is a strategic partnership between UNDP and ICVA to strengthen the capacity of Syrian NGO/CSO networks to enable them to play a vital role in joint coordination and representation by strengthening skills and capacity across a range of areas including joint coordination, governance, and strategic planning. Strengthening local humanitarian actors and networks in Syria and the region is key to a strong humanitarian response. International efforts should supplement – not substitute – national and local efforts. This project will build on ICVA’s experience supporting NGO/CSO Networks.
The NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq was established in Baghdad upon the initiative of a number of NGOs operating in the country that felt the need of creating a neutral space of discussion and dialogue amongst humanitarian agencies. Following the withdrawal of the UN from Iraq, NCCI increased its...
Following the signing of the Geneva Accords on Afghanistan in April 1988 and the subsequent withdrawal of Soviet military forces, the United Nations Office for Coordination in Afghanistan (UNOCA, changed to UNOCHA in 1993) was formed to administer the Afghanistan Emergency Trust Fund established by...
The Gulf War involved, in effect, two humanitarian upheavals rolled into one. The first was the flight of some 850,000 third country nationals and 300,000 Palestinians, from Kuwait and Iraq mostly into Jordan in the weeks following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. The second was the...
