UN emergency aid coordinator

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator ( English Emergency Relief Coordinator , shortly ERC ) is the coordinator for humanitarian relief operations of the United Nations . This function is carried out by the respective Director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), who is then also the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs . The office has been held by the British Mark Andrew Lowcock since 2017, and the German diplomat Ursula Brigitte Müller has also been the deputy since 2017 .

tasks

The tasks of the emergency aid coordinator can be divided into the following three core areas:

• Developing procedures and coordination to assist the United Nations Secretary-General ; ensure that all humanitarian concerns, including those that do not fall directly into the realm of existing institutions, e.g. B. Protection and support for displaced persons within a country are addressed;
• Humanitarian advocate in political bodies, e.g. B. in the Security Council of the United Nations
• Coordinating emergency humanitarian action on the ground, ensuring that adequate response mechanisms are in place, including through the involvement of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC); In addition, a quickly reacting assessment team ( UNDAC ) is provided on site.

Official

#	Surname	nationality	Term of office
1	Jan Eliasson	Sweden	1992-1994
2	Peter Hansen	Denmark	1994-1996
3	Yasushi Akashi	Japan	1996-1998
4th	Sérgio Vieira de Mello	Brazil	1998 - January 2001
5	Kenzo Oshima	Japan Japan	January 2001 - June 2003
6th	Jan Egeland	Norway	June 2003 - December 2006
7th	John Holmes	United Kingdom	January 2007 - September 2010
8th	Valerie Amos	United Kingdom	September 2010 - May 2015
9	Stephen O'Brien	United Kingdom	June 1, 2015 - August 31, 2017
10	Mark Andrew Lowcock	United Kingdom	September 1, 2017 -

See also

• OSOCC
• UNDRO , the predecessor organization of OCHA

Web links

• Official OCHA homepage (English)
• Reliefweb.int (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daily Press Briefing by the Offices of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. United Nations, Department of Public Information, News and Media Division , July 26, 2010, accessed August 19, 2010 . 
2. ↑ UN Pressrelease: Stephen O'Brien takes up the role of UN Humanitarian Chief (EN / AR). Retrieved October 9, 2015 . 
3. ↑ [1]