May 24, 2013
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Description
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is a United Nations body formed in December 1991 by General Assembly Resolution 46/182. The resolution was designed to strengthen the UN's response to complex emergencies and natural disasters by creating the Department of Humanitarian Affairs, and replacing the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator, which had been formed in 1972. In 1998, due to reorganisation, DHA merged into the OCHA and was designed to be the UN focal point on major disasters. Its mandate was expanded to also include the coordination of humanitarian response, policy development and humanitarian advocacy. It is a sitting observer of the United Nations Development Group.
OCHA is therefore an inter-agency body, serving UN agencies and NGOs in the humanitarian domain. Its main product is the Consolidated Appeals Process, an advocacy and planning tool to deliver humanitarian assistance together in a given emergency.
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![UN urges donor support to step up food relief efforts in Mali as food crisis looms [Algerie TV, Algeria]](/images/image_cache/base-9900000/9900102/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=8cf4711fbbec3c3e5a1ce45e996d9a3c)
![UN agencies condemn Israel's eviction of 67 Palestinians from Jerusalem [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-3612000/3612507/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=c5614b741a601b3e42fb0e52f0b1c5a5)
![UN report finds Israeli settlers stealing Palestinian water springs [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-2019000/2019361/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=7b73fd3146cd9122fec0b594fc5f568c)