Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to Ethiopia

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 40b Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2003–2004

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/58/24	Emergency humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia	704	43%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/149	Emergency humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia	506	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2003

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2003	A/58/224	Emergency humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/149

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Civil Society Coordination Within UN System Development Strategies Drought Drought Control Emergency Relief Ethiopia Food Aid Food Security Humanitarian Assistance Humanitarian Emergencies Humanitarian Intervention International Organizations Non-Governmental Organizations Northeast Africa Poverty Mitigation Resources Mobilization Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;²

²A/58/224.

Welcomes the coordinated and collaborative efforts of the Government of Ethiopia, agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, the donor community, non-governmental organizations and other entities to avert, through their timely and generous response, a major humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia in 2003;

Calls upon the international community to respond in a timely manner to the joint 2004 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for emergency assistance for Ethiopia, covering food and non-food needs, as well as to the urgent needs of programme interventions for 2004, aimed at addressing the underlying causes of food insecurity, and issues of recovery, asset protection and the sustainable development of the affected areas;

Welcomes the programme prepared by the Coalition for Food Security in Ethiopia, and encourages the international community to support the Coalition in realizing its main objective, namely, breaking the cycle of food aid dependency within the next three to five years, thereby enabling fifteen million vulnerable people to engage in sustainable productive activities;

Also welcomes the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia, the international community and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to strengthen mechanisms already in place to respond to such emergency situations, and appreciates their endeavours to increase the availability of food through domestic production and to ensure the access of households in need to food, health and water facilities;

Further welcomes the initiative taken by the Secretary-General in appointing a Special Envoy for the Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa, with the objective of mobilizing resources for relief support as well as the sustainable development of the affected areas;

Invites the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat to continue considering ways to enhance the mobilization of emergency relief assistance to cover the remaining humanitarian needs in Ethiopia;

Calls upon all development partners to integrate relief efforts with recovery, asset protection and long-term development and to address the underlying structural causes of recurrent drought in Ethiopia in a way that is, inter alia, in line with the poverty reduction strategy paper, including strategies that are aimed at preventing such crises in the future and that improve the resilience of the population;

Encourages the Government of Ethiopia to further strengthen its efforts to address the underlying structural causes of recurrent threats of drought as part of its overall economic development programme;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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