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The Emergency Directors Group

The Emergency Directors convene as the Emergency Directors Group (EDG) and focus on current crises and what is required to meet the urgent strategic and operational needs on the ground. They are chaired by the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ms. Reena Ghelani, and meet in person once a year, and regularly on to address urgent crises.

The EDG is accountable to the Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and links with the OPAG on policy matters through the chairs. The work of the EDG focuses on addressing operational issues of ongoing or imminent emergencies rather than on system-wide normative/policy issues.

The Emergency Directors are responsible for:

  • Advising the IASC on operational issues of strategic concern
  • Preparing options and recommendations for the IASC on operational issues
  • Mobilizing agency and Global Cluster resources to address strategic and operational challenges and gaps, in support of Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs)
  • Considering future high-risk scenarios and determining appropriate early actions
  • Supporting the IASC Principals with the activation and implementation of a system-wide Scale-Up Protocols
  • Monitoring and providing field support, including through capacity building and guidance

Carrying out Operational Peer Reviews through the Peer-2-Peer project.

 

 
 
 
WEBINAR: COVID-19: Community Engagement and Communications strategy at the national/local level

Chair

  • Ms. Reena Ghelani
    Director, Operations and Advocacy Division
    OCHA
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IASC Emergency Directors Group Members

Recent documents

  • IASC Emergency Directors Group Members
    Published Date
    5 May 2020
  • IASC Emergency Directors mission to Burkina Faso: Stronger International Support Needed as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens
    Published Date
    11 October 2019
  • IASC Emergency Directors Group - Terms of Reference
    Published Date
    12 April 2018
  • IASC Emergency Directors Group 2017 Work Plan
    Published Date
    12 April 2018
  • IASC Emergency Directors Group 2017 Work Plan - Key EDG Secretariat Tasks
    Published Date
    12 April 2018
View all documents
Peer-2-Peer Webinars

In consultation with the EDG, Peer to Peer is organising this webinar series. The goal is to bring forward and highlight critical operational issues faced by HCs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and provide an opportunity to share guidance and lessons learned, as well as allow space for exchanges among HCs. Given the unprecedented nature of this global crisis, this is a critical opportunity to also promote cross-learning and exchanges to better support the most vulnerable populations.

To watch them all, please see here

 

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