Working with the United Nations (UN)
The ECB project teams are engaged with the United Nations in multiple areas:
UN Clusters
Many ECB agencies are also enaged with the UN clusters, including the WASH and Shelter Clusters, and staff attend cluster meetings during emergencies.
UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee (UNIASC)
The project team presented to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) sub-working group on preparedness in Geneva and New York. Presentations highlighted ECB's work on inter-agency Simulations, Accountability to Disaster Affected communities and Disaster Risk Reduction (2012).
The ECB Project recently collaborated with the IASC as part of a global Food Security Cluster (FSC) deployment to West Africa.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
In Indonesia, UNOCHA is supportibve of the Joint Needs Assessment approach developed by the consortia partners. UNOCHA presented at the ECBinter-active Bolivia conference in November 2011 and remains supportive of the broader collaboration in Bolivia. UNOCHA attended the ECB Bangladesh inter-active conference in February 2012, and is interested in the coordinated needs assessment approaches supported by ECB teams and ACAPS.
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
In the field, the Bolivia consortia is engaged with UNICEF in advocacy and joint need assessment initiatives. Marco Luigui Corsi, from UNICEF in Bolivia, participated in the ECBinter-active learning conference. In Uganda, UNICEF staff worked alongside the ECB consortium members and the Ugandan government on various DRR, preparedness and disaster management issues. UNICEF Uganda also supported an ECB multi-agency Simulations.
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) experts worked with ECB Advisers during ECB's DRR & Climate Change conference June 8-12, 2009 in Bellagio, Italy.
World Food Programme (WFP)
March 2012 field study conducted in communities in western and eastern Niger by the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) and the ECB Project, with input from the World Food Program and the Government of Niger.
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