(d) Response to and management of crises

Switzerland immediately reacted to the crisis.

Complex crises and United Nations response.

Donor response to the crisis

One of the most pressing needs is to deal with the human capacity crisis.

One such instance occurred in response to the Mexican crisis in 1995 and a second in response to the Asian currency crisis in 1997 1998.

That's because our ability to confront the problems that we face has not kept pace with our ability to create them.

What is the fallout shelter for the climate crisis?

And it's an industry which has bucked the current recession with equanimity.

One should appreciate the speed with which the international community responded to the conflict.

If linked to timely and decisive response mechanisms, early warning can assist in preparing for and even preventing crises.

Farther afield, we have also assisted the responses to protracted crises in Africa, including in the Sudan, the Niger, Malawi and in southern Africa more broadly.

National capacity building and early warning systems were crucial in coping with these crises.

And so I thought, how could we address the energy crisis in this country?

III. CAPACITY OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN SYSTEM TO RESPOND TO COMPLEX CRISES

I seriously urge the world to focus more on preventing crises than on responding to them.

Each of these crises calls for urgent action. But as a new Asia Society task force argues, in tackling them the world must not lose sight of the great promise of the India U.S. relationship.

We can certainly see this in response to the current financial crisis.

The way humanitarian crises are funded affects the ability of the United Nations to respond promptly, effectively and in a principled manner.

It is only with greater awareness that we can address the crisis individually and collectively.

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Available instruments must be constantly improved and adapted to the changing needs of our response to crisis.

Our countries should not be condemned to stagger from one crisis to the next.

It determines how well we react to a given crisis.

Anatomy of a Crisis

Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown

In the poor world, we have to integrate the responses to poverty with the solutions to the climate crisis.

The United Nations must be in a position to respond courageously to the crises generated by conflicts.

The report points out the incapacity that the international financial institutions have demonstrated in facing crises such as those that have recently affected the global economy.

They stressed that there should be a coherent and coordinated United Nations system response in crisis and post crisis situations.

We've got a climate crisis.

The capacity of both UNOCI and the Licorne forces was exceeded during the November crisis.

Objective 3.

C. Psychological trauma (a) the crisis reaction (b) long term stress reactions

But perhaps we should be grateful that it was managed at all. Unlike in the 1930 s, decision makers acted quickly, ignoring dogmas that warned against rapid intervention.

This is a very reactive, crisis driven system.

The proposed improved Central Emergency Revolving Fund, which will include a grant element, aims to promote early response in sudden onset crises as well as to strengthen the core elements of humanitarian response in underfunded crises.

The disaster response mechanisms developed jointly by the Government and UNAMA have grown increasingly effective in collecting information on and facilitating the response to humanitarian crises.

That would ensure immediate funding to support rapid responses to humanitarian crises.

The euro crisis had its origin in German Chancellor Angela Merkel s decision, taken in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers default in September 2008, that the guarantee against further defaults should come not from the European Union, but from each country separately. And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.

Similarly, an increased capacity to promptly respond to human rights crises will need to be supported by adequate administrative and logistical structures.

The exceptional financial crisis called for an exceptional response.

At present, United Nations organizations resort to trust funds, the Central Emergency Revolving Fund, agency specific emergency funds, and voluntary contributions to finance their response to crises.

The international community's response to those appeals has gradually decreased as the crisis entered its fifth year and other world crises diverted the attention of donors.

UNICEF humanitarian response to recent crises oral report