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Pacific Humanitarian Team

Background and Progress 2008-2009

Inter-Agency

Standing Committee

(IASC)

Composed of NGO
consortia, Red Cross
and Red Crescent
Movement, IOM, World
bank and UN agencies

Inter-Agency Standing Committee

Full Members and Standing Invitees

Full Members

Food and Agricultural

Organisation (FAO)

Office for the Coordination of

Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Population Fund

(UNFPA)

United Nations High Comissioner

for Refugees (UNHCR)

United Nations Children’s Fund

(UNICEF)

World Food Programme (WFP)

World Health Organisation

(WHO)

Standing Invitees

International Committee of the

Red Cross (ICRC)

International Council of Voluntary

Agencies (ICVA)

International Federation of Red

Cross and Red Crescent

Societies (IFRC)

American Council for Voluntary

International Action (InterAction)

International Organisation for

Migration (IOM)

Office of the High Commissioner

for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Office of the Special

Representative of the Secretary

General on the Human Rights of

Internally Displaced Persons

(RSG on HR of IDPs)

Steering Committee for

Humanitarian Response (SCHR)

World Bank (World Bank)

THE KEY ELEMENTS OF

HUMANITARIAN REFORM

CLUSTER APPROACH

Adequate capacity and

predictable leadership in

all sectors

HUMANITARIAN

COORDINATION

Effective leadership and

coordination in

humanitarian emergencies

HUMANITARIAN

FINANCING

Adequate, timely and

flexible financing

PARTNERSHIPS

Strong partnerships between UN and non-UN actors

OCHA’S TOOLBOX

Clusters
strengthen
partnerships
and responses
to humanitarian
emergencies
by clarifying
the division of
labor among
aid organizations.

THE CLUSTER
APPROACH

Background

July 2008: 1

workshop of regional humanitarian

responders in the Pacific (Suva, Fiji)

Total 65 participants

19 UN staff from 11 UN agencies

11 INGO staff from 11 INGOs

5 participants from 3 Red Cross organisations

5 participants from 5 education/training institutes

14 participants from 5 donor partners

11 country representatives (NDMO, MOH)

Establishment of PHT and prioritized Pacific clusters
for preparedness and response

Outcomes

Pacific Humanitarian Team

Comprising all disaster response actors that
have a regional capacity to deploy in Pacific
Island Countries

Prioritized clusters

(1) Health & Nutrition (2) WASH (3) Emergency Shelter &Camp

management (4) Logistics (5) Information Management (6)
Protection

6 Pacific Priority Clusters

UNHCR, UNICEF, OHCHR, OXFAM,WV,
SCF, OCHA, USG, UNFPA, NZ, RC,
Churches, UNDSS, AUSAID

UNHCR/UNICEF/
OHCHR

UNHCR (for refugees)

Protection

UNOCHA, OXFAM, SCF, RC, USG,
UNFPA, UNICEF, Monash/ FSM,
UNESCO, FRANZ, SOPAC, NZCID,
ACFID? PIANGO?

UNOCHA

Cross-cutting issue

Information
Management

WFP, Oxfam, Red Cross, USG, Church,
FRANZ

WFP

WFP

Logistics

IFRC, SCF, HFH, WV, Oxfam, NZ, JP,
AUS, IOM

IFRC (convener for
Shelter)

IOM (for Camp
Management)

IFRC & IOM

Shelter & Camp
Management

UNICEF, RC, OXFAM, NZ, WV, SCF,
USG, JP, WHO, AUS

UNICEF

UNICEF

Water, Sanitation &
Hygiene (WASH)

WHO, UNICEF, USG, Red Cross (RC),
UNFPA, WV, UNDP, UNEP, SCF,
OXFAM, NZ, AUS, Fiji School of
Medicine/Monash

WHO & (

UNICEF

)

WHO & UNICEF

Health & Nutrition

Pacific cluster partners (July
08)

Pacific cluster
lead

Global cluster
lead

Humanitarian
Cluster

Coordination - IASC of PHT: Cluster leads +
UNRCs

Inter Cluster Coordination
Inter-Agency Standing Committee of the Pacific Humanitarian
Team (PHT - IASC)

Cluster leads + Education (UNICEF/Save the Children) +
Early Recovery (UNDP) + Others as per request to cluster

leads or RC/OCHA

Outcomes (cont’d)

Emergencies & Response 2008-2009

High Sea Swells: RMI, FSM, Solomon Islands
(Dec 08)

Fiji Floods (Jan 09)

Guadalcanal floods (Feb 09)

Ambrym Volcano and Floods (Apr 09)

Samoa & Tonga Tsunami (Sept/Oct 09)

Cluster preparedness planning

Standardized rapid assessment tools (Health, Shelter, IM)
Integrated data (Health)
Partnerships with government (Health, WASH)
Inventory of HR and materials (WASH)
Focal persons and preparedness plan (WASH,
Protection)
Mapping of lessons, capacities, issues, etc. (Shelter/CM,
Logistics, Protection)
WFP follow up (Logistics)
Identify lead agencies (Protection)
Online forum set up (IM, Protection)

IASC PHT

Regular meetings: 3 (Oct 08, Dec 08, April 09)

Several around various emergencies

Often hampered by technical communication
problems, so often Suva centered.

Inter-Agency Contingency Planning

Solomon Islands (March 09)

Samoa (April 09)

Vanuatu (September 09)