UNOCHA: 2014 Overview of Global Humanitarian Response 2014
February 2014; 28 pages
Full report: https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/CAP/Overview_of_Global_Humanitarian_Response_2014.pdf

Excerpt from the Foreword
….UN agencies and partner organizations are working together to transform the way we do our business by strengthening humanitarian leadership, streamlining coordination mechanisms, improving accountability to affected people, building capacity for preparedness and response, and strengthening partnerships with a broad range of countries and organizations at the national, regional and global levels. We have called this our Transformative Agenda as we seek to make our response efforts faster, more strategic, flexible and inclusive.

The strategic response plans for 2014 set out in this document are based on a systematic and focused assessment and analysis of humanitarian needs to build a solid evidence base for comprehensive humanitarian action. In the coming months, we will seek further improvements including monitoring frameworks for each major crisis and revamped methods for determining funding requirements and tracking the use of resources. We will continue to seek ways to become more inclusive, accountable, inter-operable and adaptable to help the growing number of people in crisis, and to work with the full array of actors involved in humanitarian work including the private sector. Improving humanitarian action while keeping costs down is one of our objectives, for example the use of cash transfers complementing the physical delivery of goods and services, mobile phone and crowd-sourcing technology for better communication with disaster-affected people, and information technology to better map where the people in need are and what is being done to support them.

This document outlines strategic response plans and resource requirements to respond to humanitarian emergencies around the world in 2014. It represents the synthesis of the work of hundreds of organizations committed to life-saving humanitarian action across the world. There are links to the full response plans, and a Guide to Giving which explains how donors, including those from the private sector, can support the response plans…

Chapters
GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE FOR 2014 5
HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OVERVIEWS 7
OVERVIEW OF STRATEGIC RESPONSE PLANS 9
HUMANITARIAN FUNDING IN 2013 11
THE MODIFIED CONSOLIDATED APPEAL PROCESS 13
COUNTRY OVERVIEWS 15
–       AFGHANISTAN 16
–       CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 16
–       DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 17
–       HAITI 17
–       MYANMAR 18
–       SOMALIA 19
–       SOUTH SUDAN 19
–       SUDAN 20
–       YEMEN 20
–       SYRIA 22
–       PHILIPPINES