Burundi Weekly Humanitarian News, 29 Sep - 05 Oct 2008

Activities and Updates Humanitarian Reform/Clusters workshop: Earliest development The workshop held on 24-25 September confirmed the interest of UN agencies and others Humanitarian partners (several international NGOs) to formalize the cluster arrangements, in particular regarding early recovery, nutrition, and possibly logistics. It stressed out the importance of not creating additional layers of coordination but to integrate the humanitarian component into existing development groups of the PRSP, particulary for Education, Health and Food Security. While no formal endorsement of cluster has been made during the workshop, it was clearly recommended that: - a country IASC (Comité Humanitaire) will meet shortly after the workshop to endorse which clusters should be formally activated, - a letter will be sent by the HC to the... [read full story]                    

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