Coordination and Common Services (CCS) aims to facilitate the coordination of the response and advocacy, while ensuring protection of the affected population and making sure the most vulnerable people are reached.
CCS partners, coordinated by OCHA, will ensure that strategic and operational decision-making bodies and coordination platforms have access to accurate, up-to-date and evidence-based information to guide their work. CCS supports humanitarian partners to guide the humanitarian response, regarding coordination, information management, needs assessments, tracking of population movements, advocacy for humanitarian access, safety and centrality of protection. CCS contributes to the work of the HCT, ICCG and Area ICCG through several information products such as monitoring reports, dashboards, snapshots, and humanitarian bulletins to support their decision-making processes.
At the beginning of 2024, the Assessment and Analysis Working Group (A&AWG) will develop a strategy, which includes a three-pronged approach to needs assessment. These include the monitoring of the humanitarian situation through a variety of light tools, a core rapid needs assessment tool and methodology (The Multi Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA)) and more comprehensive multisectoral assessments (including SMART PLUS and Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA). To implement all these multisectoral tools and approaches will cost approximately US$ 13.8 million to fully implement (see table above), in addition to the sectoral needs assessment strategies developed to address the data gaps identified by the HNO process. Importantly, it will provide regular (quarterly) situation analyses on the humanitarian situation based on rigorous joint analyses.
