Emergency management organization: International

Introduction

The International Emergency Management Organization is an international body having its provisional head office in Italy. It was established through the Inter-governmental Convention on food micro-algae, university research and emergency prevention, first ratified by Benin, Madagascar, and Somalia.

Activities of IEMO

IEMO is involved in emergency management and prevention. It organizes an International Emergency Prevention Day on 14 April 2012.

Sometimes they are left to local NGOs which, in emergency situation seem to be not “official” or “institutional” to raise the local Authority’s collaboration. The need of an intergovernmental entity as the IEMO, focused on emergency prevention and response with a particular view on forgotten or left aside emergencies was therefore very urgent on the global scenario.

The lines of the Institutional activity are the following:

I) EMERGENCY AWARENESS

II) EMERGENCY PREVENTION

III) EMERGENCY REPONSE

IV) EDUCATION ON EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT [1]

International emergency management organization; in support of  

 

 

                                       

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a United Nations programmer with the mandate to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people, and assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. [2]

The office of the high commissioner for refugees was established on December 14, 1950.

Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that;

-          Everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another state.

-          It is with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally, or to resettle in a third country.

-          It also has a mandate to help stateless people.

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

UNICEF is a United Nations (UN) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group.

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund was created by the United Nations General Assembly on the 11th of December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II.

UNICEF's Supply Division is based in Copenhagen and serves as the primary point of distribution for such essential items as vaccines, antiretroviral medicines for children and mothers with HIV, nutritional supplements, emergency shelters, family reunification, and educational supplies. A 36-member executive board establishes policies, approves programs and oversees administrative and financial plans. The executive board is made up of government representatives who are elected by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, usually for three-year terms. [3]

UNICEF national committees

There are national committees in 34 countries, each established as an independent local non-governmental organization. The national committees raise funds from the private sector.

UNICEF is funded entirely by voluntary contributions, and the National Committees collectively raise around one-third of UNICEF's annual income. This comes through contributions from corporations, civil society organizations around six million individual donors worldwide. [3]

United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC)

2012 has been a busy year for the United Nations Millennium Campaign and the development field as a whole. In June the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development took place as the world continues to look towards a more sustainable future. UNMC has been working year round to look at the effect and possibilities for parliamentarians to have great influence over the poverty agenda and the Millennium Development Goals. Furthermore, UNMC along with a wide array of partners within the United Nations as well as outside stakeholders are beginning seriously look at the post-2015 agenda, a chance to make one final push (such as GML) for the MDGs, learn from them and create a new more inclusive development agenda post-2015.

Post-2015 Development Agenda: Goals, Targets and Indicators

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have, overall, been remarkably successful in focusing attention and mobilizing resources to address the major gaps in human development. Some of the MDGs’ key targets, such as halving the poverty rate, will be met by 2015; however, achieving the health goals looks difficult and Africa lags behind, despite the substantial progress it has made since 2000. The product of a consortium of organizations led by CIGI and the Korea Development Institute (KDI), this special report examines the targets that have been met and considers the global implications of the remaining unmet goals, concluding that the global community must build on the current MDGs, moving beyond meeting basic human needs in order to promote dynamic, inclusive and sustainable development. The report reviews a menu of indicators for the candidate goals to inform the future process of selecting the post-2015 successors to the MDGs. [4]

Copenhagen Seal the Deal

The "Seal the Deal" campaign is launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and aims to galvanize political will and public support for reaching a comprehensive global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December.

Seeking a “strong political agreement” at the Copenhagen climate change summit, Ban Ki-moon has said the world leaders “must seal the deal” to tackle the pressing issue of global warming.

Conclusion

The Organizations have the mandate to work for natural and man-made emergency prevention, preparedness, mitigation and recovery. As far as man-made emergencies are concerned, it focuses on prevention and under-assisted emergencies. In respect of natural emergencies it focuses on building resilience and preparedness as well as care of unassisted emergencies.