SCHEME FOR INTERNATIONAL CRISIS RESPONSE TEAMS FOR EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

How to strengthen crisis and emergency management capacities

IV. Scheme for International Crisis Response Teams for Emergency Assistance 16

The commentary states that more general cases of emergencies are more a matter of necessity than distress. Ibid. at p. 193, para.

158. Many emergencies reflect the underlying crisis of development facing many developing countries, which needs to be addressed by Governments and the international community if the emergency is not to recur.

Indeed, the Council will have to be able to bring urgent crises to the attention of the world community.

These problems and crises demand urgent attention with anticipatory capacity building.

The CERF report clearly shows that the consolidated and flash appeals have been insufficient in meeting the needs of the various crises and emergencies.

The crisis in Darfur tested the limits of the UNICEF emergency response capacity.

Development activities can take place effectively side by side with emergency activities in many crisis situations.

We believe that a centralized source of rapidly available funding could help effectively address urgent needs in rapid onset emergencies and swiftly deteriorating crises.

My delegation is following this new crisis with great concern it has already forced the Palestinian Authority to declare a state of emergency in the occupied territories.

A growing number of countries are faced with multipronged crises where disasters associated with natural hazards and complex emergencies reinforce and feed into one another.

The emergency generators did not start.

Switch to the emergency generator.

The United Nations should be more than just a crisis management body a body that addresses poverty, disasters and emergencies.

UNHCR is calling for urgent measures to avoid a social crisis resulting from the expected massive repatriation.

An estimated 500,000 people remain in a state of humanitarian emergency or livelihood crisis in drought affected areas.

United Nations organizations and local non governmental organizations have responded to the crisis by providing emergency assistance.

Had such a mechanism existed during the Mexican crisis of 1994, it would not have been necessary to hold urgent negotiations.

Article 11 Situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies

A number of flash appeals were also issued, for example, to address the situations in Djibouti and Benin, as a result of the Togolese refugee crisis.

But there were men with better motives, men who saw that times were critical... and wanted a man's part.

United Nations operational organizations are generally involved to varying extents in all three phases of an emergency pre crisis and prevention, crisis, and recovery.

17. Underlines the continuing importance of providing the international institutions, in particular the International Monetary Fund, with adequate resources to provide emergency financing in a timely and accessible manner to countries affected by financial crises, and notes the regional and subregional efforts to facilitate emergency financing in time of crisis

Mindful of situations in which rapid action by the High Commissioner is required in order to address urgent crises in the field of human rights,

They are launched within days of a crisis and serve as a critical benchmark for framing initial life saving needs.

Emergency relief must be built into national programmes of preparedness and risk reduction.

2. Also in a state of emergency, i.e. especially during a state of tension and a state of defence (external state of emergency crisis and war), the basic rights remain in force under the Basic Law (Grundgesetz, GG), i.e. the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.

(a) Emergency The setting up of a United Nations Disaster Management Team in Kinshasa enabled the coordination of emergency relief, while maintaining a continuous flow of information to the agencies or United Nations Headquarters on all aspects of the crisis.

We must face immediate threats immediately.

Donors that have treated Chernobyl as a humanitarian crisis have been pulled away by the many emergencies facing the world today.

8. In its article 102, moreover, the Federal Constitution contains provisions applicable to emergency or crisis situations (paras. 9 and 10).

The airports provide plans of action in case of emergency.

Establish mechanism on early warning and crisis management improve the capacity of relevant staff in coping with emergencies and panics and maintaining the stability of society.

Fats knew the game was in the clutch, so he had to do something to stop you.

(b) To develop an emergency response mechanism as part of his mandate.

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

As a result of the ongoing crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory, UNRWA has also implemented a comprehensive programme of emergency activities for the Palestine refugees, which has included the provision of food aid, cash assistance, emergency employment generation, shelter repair and reconstruction, compensatory education, and the provision of emergency health services, including trauma counselling and psychological support.

It is clear beyond the shadow of a doubt, from the multiple crises they hurled at the world, that meeting critical human needs now and attending to the ravages to Earth are imperatives for all of us.

1.147 To assist families with small scale emergency needs during a family specific economic or humanitarian crisis through selective cash assistance based on actual needs.

I therefore call on donors to urgently support United Nations efforts in maintaining mechanisms for addressing humanitarian emergencies.

The humanitarian consequences of this situation prompted the United Nations to launch an urgent appeal for the Central African Republic in April 2003.

These actions must be taken now if we are to resolve protracted protection crises and to prevent emerging situations from becoming entrenched.

Despite these initial steps, a fiscal crisis within the Palestinian Authority required emergency budget support towards the end of the year.