These terms of reference set out the role and responsibilities of the Humanitarian Coordinator, an individual designated to lead and coordinate the humanitarian response of IASC and other organisations in country with a view to ensuring that it is principles, timely, effective, and efficient, and contributes to longer-term recovery.
Although disasters are quick to strike, their consequences can linger for months and years. In disasters, responders did not always think through how human rights may be affected by their interventions. All too often the human rights of disaster victims are not sufficiently taken into account. These violations could be avoided if both national and international actors took the relevant human rights guarantees into account from the beginning. Thus, there is a need to raise awareness and implement human rights approaches through guidelines.
