Coordination
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
OCHA will continue to provide dedicated support to the Humanitarian Coordinator, HCT and ICCG with a focus on the following activities:
- Maintaining and strengthening inclusive coordination mechanisms at national and sub-national levels to ensure principled, timely and effective humanitarian response.
- Facilitating joint situational awareness, analysis and advocacy on humanitarian needs, gaps, and response to support decision-making and coherent planning.
- Facilitating joint strategic planning for humanitarian response, as well as joint monitoring and reporting.
- Mobilizing flexible and predictable humanitarian funding for the response and effectively managing use of the Central Emergency Response Fund and the Myanmar Humanitarian Fund.
- Advocating for the protection of civilians and sustained humanitarian access to all women, men, girls, and boys in need.
- Strengthening preparedness for and capacity to respond to climatic disasters and other emergencies.
- OCHA will facilitate updating the HNRP at least annually and driving the implementation of the humanitarian programme cycle throughout the year.
- OCHA will coordinate the HCT contingency planning processes, including updating the Emergency Response Preparedness Plan.
- OCHA will support efforts on the workstreams and prioritized recommendations from the Emergency Directors Group and Peer-2-Peer reports in collaboration with other HCT partners.
- OCHA will support response-wide information management and provide regular updates and analyses to inform partners and the international community on critical humanitarian developments.
- OCHA also chairs the humanitarian Information Management Working Group in support of cluster data activities.
- OCHA leads on access through its chairing of the Humanitarian Access Working Group and its network of offices at the sub-national level.
- OCHA will also support the HCT and the ICCG in integrating key cross-cutting issues into relevant planning processes and response.
- OCHA will lead on cash coordination in the humanitarian response in line with new global frameworks and will provide support to mainstreaming of disability inclusion across the humanitarian response.
- OCHA chairs the Humanitarian Communications Group in support of cohesive, collective public information on the humanitarian situation in Myanmar.
Cluster Lead Agencies will scale up cluster coordination in an integrated and inclusive manner. To this end, at national level, all clusters aim to secure NGO co-leadership for which dedicated resources are required.
Evidence-based response
The HNRP heavily relies on common data collection, management, and analysis services to support an evidence-based response, building on and coordinating with the diverse existing data collection tools being used by partners to ensure complementarity and comparability between the data collected. A comprehensive analysis of multi-sectoral needs will be conducted again in 2025 to understand the shifting humanitarian landscape, following an expansion of the dataset in 2024. Such a rigorous analysis is a critical step in ensuring that the most vulnerable are supported with the assistance they require most urgently. To this end, funding is required to undertake a fourth round of its nationwide and cross-sectoral analysis of the current and projected severity of needs of the crisis-affected population. Depending on availability of funding, this exercise will inform the new 2026 HNRP.
Accountability to affected people
Revitalized in 2021 and strengthened over the past three years, the AAP/CE Working Group has been pivotal in ensuring that the humanitarian response integrates the voices, preferences, and feedback of affected communities through collective mechanisms. In 2025, AAP has been further prioritized, with plans to establish a collective feedback mechanism and strengthen community engagement efforts. These collective accountability systems streamline referrals among humanitarian actors and embed community needs into the overall analysis framework. A Central Emergency Response Fund allocation has been secured to support the rollout of the AAP/CE WG workplan. Additional funding will ensure the sustainability of inter-agency AAP initiatives on collective AAP, including a centralized feedback system, which will provide affected people with a direct and simplified way to share their feedback and preferences.
Cash
With the rollout of multi-purpose cash interventions in 2025, the Joint Market Monitoring Initiative has been prioritized to enhance the understanding of market dynamics and support the effectiveness of cash-based interventions. This initiative will provide critical data to inform programming decisions, including price monitoring, market functionality, and supply chain resilience, enabling more responsive humanitarian action. Staffing has been included to ensure adequate technical expertise and operational capacity, which is essential for managing and scaling up cash-based assistance effectively, closely aligning with broader humanitarian response priorities.
Disability
Based on the TAG’s recommendation, dedicated funding has been included to support the integration of disability inclusion across all sectors. This funding ensures access to technical expertise to guide inclusive practices, strengthen capacity for mainstreaming efforts, and facilitate targeted initiatives led by the TAG, including awareness-raising and capacity-building activities. These efforts aim to further enhance the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in the humanitarian response and ensure their needs are effectively incorporated into programme design and implementation.
Localization
A budget has been included to support a team of seven interpreters and translators covering national and four sub-national coordination hubs. This dedicated language support will facilitate coordination forums, meetings, and workshops throughout 2025, benefiting both local and international partners, and is aimed to enhance communication and collaboration across stakeholders, ensuring that language barriers do not hinder effective humanitarian action. At the same time, funding is required to enable local organizations to take on leadership roles in the subnational coordination structures and strengthen the humanitarian efforts by effectively linking local coordination networks with the international coordination mechanism.
Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse
Efforts to address PSEA in 2025 will be significantly scaled up through a range of activities. The proposed PSEA budget includes resources for staffing to provide technical expertise in inter-agency coordination, capacity building, and the implementation of PSEA policies. Activity costs will support key initiatives, such as awareness campaigns, capacity-strengthening sessions, and the development of tools and mechanisms to enhance collective accountability and reporting against PSEA. Progress will be monitored on a quarterly basis by the PSEA Inter-Agency Network and cluster partners using the Inter-Agency Standing Committee PSEA indicator 2.2.B: Number of children and adults engaged through awareness-raising activities and community mobilization interventions on PSEA.