Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-Ordinator

A/RES/41/201View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82a Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1977–1987

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1987	A/RES/41/201	Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator	1,315	15%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/207	Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator	1,177	12%Compare
1983	A/RES/37/144	Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator	1,149	18%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/107	Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator	379	24%Compare
1979	A/RES/34/55	Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator	635	40%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Africa Budget Contributions Disaster Preparedness Disaster Prevention Disaster Relief Focal Points Information Transfer Project Management Resources Mobilization Transport Working Groups

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator58 and of the statement made by the Co-ordinator before the Second Committee on 21 October 1986;65 2.

Reaffirms the sovereignty of individual Member States, recognizes the primary role of each State in caring for the victims of disasters occurring in its territory and stresses that all relief operations should be carried out and co-ordinated in a manner consistent with the priorities and needs of the countries concerned, and that the material and other assistance provided by the international community should be appropriate to the particular needs of the populations of the disaster-affected areas;

Recognizes the importance of disaster preparedness and prevention activities, and calls upon the Office of the Co-ordinator, Governments and organizations concerned to ensure that due priority attention is given to them;

Reaffirms the mandate of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator, established by the General Assembly in resolution 2816 (XXVI) as the focal point in the United Nations system for disaster relief coordination, and calls for the reinforcement and improvement of the capacity and effectiveness of the Office, without prejudice to any decision taken by the General Assembly in the context of the review of the efficiency of the administrative and financia) functioning ofthe United Nations;66 5.

Affirms that the Office of the Co-ordinator plays an active role in executing United Nations Development Programme-assisted projects in the field of disaster preparedness;

Reitera tes its cal/ to all Governments and competent organs and organizations to co-operate with the Office of the Co-ordinator in arder to improve, in particular, the flow of information to Governments and organizations

concerned, so that a more complete picture of relief activities, assistance received and further requirements may he provided to ali concerned;

Calls upan those contributing assistance in kind to provide, when appropriate, special grants to cover the

costs of transport and distribution of the assistance to and within the affected country;

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator to intensify their efforts to mobilize additional voluntary resources to meet the needs arising from disaster and emergency situations;

Appeals to Governments to make urgent voluntary contributions, directly or channelled through the Trust Fund of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator, to enable the Office to cover contingency expenses in connection with disaster relief operations;

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Recommends that, as the Co-ordinator phases out bis responsibility for disaster relief co-ordination in a given country, he should contribute to ensuring the necessary transition to the rehabilitation and reconstruction phase by passing on relevant data to competent organs and agencies of the United Nations system;

Emphasizes the essential need for the work of the Office of the Co-ordinator to be placed and kept on a sound financia! basis, and calls upon the international community to respond positively and expeditiously to the appeal of the Secretary-General for contributions to the Trust Fund to meet the needs arising from natural disasters and other disaster situations;

Welcomes the decision ofthe Secretary-General by which a working group was established to review the emergency response of the United Nations system in relation to the emergency situation in Africa;

Stresses, in this regard, the need to take into account the experience gained by the United Nations in responding to the emergency situation in Africa and other disaster situations, in strengthening the functioning and capacity of the United Nations in the area of emergency assistance;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on the implementation ofthe present resolution, including a comprehensive review and assessment of the existing mechanisms and arrangements within the system for disaster and emergency assistance and co-ordination, to the General Assembly at its forty-second session, through the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1987.

65 Official Record., of the General Assembly. Forty-jir'1 Session, Second Commillee. 18th meeting, paras. 28-32.

66 I/,id, Forty-jirn Sessio11, S11ppleme11t No. 49(A/41 /49).

Resolutlons adopted on the reports of the Second Commlttee 67 Ojjicial Records ofthe General Assembly. Fortieth Se.ssion. A1111exes. agenda item 84. documents A/40/989/ Add.14. paras. 7. 11 and 12, and A/40/989/ Add.3, para. 66.

71 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fortieth Session.

68 /bid., Tlúrty-third Se.,sion. Supplcment No. /5 (A/33/15), vol.[,

Ple,wry Meetings, 119th and 133rd meetings; ibid., Second Committee, part two, annex l.

31st, 41st, 45th and 52nd to 56th meetings; ibid., Second Committe<'.

69 //,id .. 71,irry-fifih Sl'\sion. Supplemcnt No. 15 (A/35/15), vol. 11,

Sessional Fascicle. corrigendum: ibid., Forty-first Session. Plcnary annex l.

Meeting.,, 100th meeting; and ibid., Second Committee, 10th to 13th,

70 A/41/643.

15th, 16th and 36th meeting, and corrigendum.

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