Humanitarian Assistance and Rehabilitation for Ethiopia

A/RES/60/218View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 73b Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions, published in 2006.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2005–2006

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2006	A/RES/60/218	Humanitarian assistance and rehabilitation for Ethiopia	926	85%Compare
2005	A/RES/59/217	Humanitarian assistance and rehabilitation for Ethiopia	852	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2007

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2007	A/62/310	Humanitarian assistance and rehabilitation for selected countries and regions report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/60/218

What subjects does this mandate have?

16 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Donor Countries Drought Drought Control Emergency Relief Ethiopia Food Aid Food Security Humanitarian Assistance Humanitarian Emergencies International Organizations Non-Governmental Organizations Poverty Mitigation Resources Mobilization Rural Development Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

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

²A/60/302.

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, and their timely and generous response to the joint 2005 appeal so far, and, in this regard, encourages the international community to strengthen its response to non-food assistance;

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, expresses appreciation of their endeavours to increase the availability of food through the procurement of local produce and to ensure access of households in need to food, health and water facilities, sanitation, seeds and veterinary services, and strongly encourages the Government of Ethiopia to continue such efforts;

Stresses the need to address the underlying causes of food insecurity, and issues of recovery, asset protection and the sustainable development of the affected areas, welcomes in this regard 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;

Welcomes the Group of Eight action plan on ending the cycle of famine in the Horn of Africa, and looks forward to its full implementation;

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

Calls upon all development partners, in cooperation with the Government of Ethiopia, to integrate relief efforts with recovery, asset protection and long-term development, including the structural and productive options needed to stimulate accelerated rural growth, and to address the underlying causes of recurrent drought in Ethiopia in a way that is, inter alia, in line with the poverty reduction strategy paper and the rural development strategy, bearing in mind the need to prevent such crises in the future and to improve the resilience of the population;

Welcomes the launch of the Productive Safety Nets Programme at the beginning of 2005, and emphasizes the importance of its effective implementation and its complementarity and coordination with activities undertaken in the context of the joint 2005 appeal of the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia for emergency assistance for Ethiopia as well as with other food security operations;

Welcomes the initiative taken by the Secretary-General in appointing the Special Envoy for the Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa, with the objective of mobilizing resources to address the root causes of food insecurity as well as the sustainable development of the affected areas;

Invites the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat to continue its efforts to coordinate and develop a strategic response to recurrent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and to consider ways to enhance the mobilization of emergency relief assistance in order to cover the remaining humanitarian needs in Ethiopia;

Takes note of the report on evaluation of the response to the 2002–2003 emergency in Ethiopia prepared jointly by the Government of Ethiopia and humanitarian partners, and urges the Government of Ethiopia, donors and all other stakeholders to continue to implement the recommendations contained therein;

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

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