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100 Things Cluster Coordinators need to know before they die
Efforts to improve humanitarian performance are being compromised by a widespread misperception of what effective coordination entails. Not to frighten the horses, but professional Cluster Coordinators need to have 148 separate skills to do their job properly. This is where you find out what they are. q3rgt3gt4 4rgt3t5g4 Click here to download full article (.doc) Click here for Powerpoints. (.pptx)
Read MoreTime to professionalise Cluster coordination
Coordination costs. Poor coordination costs lives. Yet efforts to improve humanitarian performance through the humanitarian reform agenda are compromised by a widespread misperception among donors, UN agencies and NGOs of what effective coordination actually entails. As a result, relatively junior and minimally trained coordinators continue to be mobilised with insufficient information management, technical, and secretariat support to do their jobs effectively. Systemic failures of accountability compromise the role still further. This is the inevitable consequence of a general misunderstanding of how important the coordination function is to improved humanitarian...
Read MoreHaiti Earthquake 2010: WASH Cluster Coordinator Lessons Learned
This paper comprises a series of observations and recommendations made by the WASH Cluster Coordinator[2] in Haiti during the earthquake response of 2010. It is a personal reflection which neither represents nor endorses the views of UNICEF as Global Cluster Lead Agency for WASH nor any members of the WASH Cluster per se. It is intended as a constructive contribution to the debate now taking place between Global Cluster Lead Agencies, OCHA, and the IASC over how best to resolve the challenges still facing implementation of the Cluster Approach following findings of the IASC’s Phase Two evaluation, and from which it takes its frame of reference. It is informed by direct...
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