Child Protection in Emergencies
Procurement for emergencies: $60 million¹
As part of UNICEF’s emergency preparedness and response
activities, Supply Division has committed itself to ensuring
an immediate turnaround for emergency orders. Emergency logistics,
providing expertise and guidance on the clearance, warehousing,
and end-user distribution of supplies, is an important aspect
of this work, which also consolidates inter-agency collaboration,
particularly with the UN Joint Logistics Centre, the World
Food Programme, and the International Federation of the Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Supply Division played a vital role in supporting UNICEF’s
efforts to respond to several major emergencies in 2004. In
addition to the Darfur/ Eastern Chad and Tsunami emergencies,
Supply Division delivered emergency supplies to Iran, Morocco,
Haiti, Madagascar, Sudan, the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea, Djibouti, Jamaica, Côte d’Ivoire, India,
the Dominican Republic, the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, Malawi, Kenya, Bangladesh, Grenada,
Papua New Guinea, Burundi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Barbados, Sri
Lanka, Eritrea, Rwanda, Nepal and Yemen, among others. UNICEF’s
commitment to helping children and their families in emergencies
covers both situations of natural disaster and conflict, and
ranges from foreseeable disasters such as droughts, to unforeseeable
ones like a tsunami. While no longer classified as an emergency,
Iraq continued to receive a large amount of supplies in 2004.
¹ This figure includes offshore and warehouse procurement.
It is part of the total value of supplies provided for each
organizational priority.
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