Welcome to the IASC
![/Medical%20evacuation%20of%20patients%20from%20Kamal%20Adwan%20hospital%20in%20Jabalya%2C%20North%20Gaza](/sites/default/files/styles/hero/public/2024-11/Gaza-Humanitarian-Response-Update-13%E2%80%9326-October-2024.jpeg)
Stop the assault on Palestinians in Gaza and on those trying to help them
Photo credit: OCHA
How the IASC makes a difference
-
Supporting best practice'IASC products' are guidance, policies, tools, and statements endorsed by the highest-level humanitarian coordination forum to promote best practice and coordinated action.
-
Transformative decision-makingAs the longest-standing and highest-level humanitarian coordination platform of the UN System, the IASC makes strategic decisions that shape the humanitarian system.
-
Responding to pressing issuesThe IASC engages with timely and challenging issues of system-wide significance, providing leadership, commissioning tools, and establishing mechanisms to improve humanitarian response.
-
Innovation and standard-settingThe IASC convenes Task Forces of experts from across the humanitarian community who develop coordinated best-practice for the humanitarian system.