UN-CMCoord Guidance Updates

Why Recommended Practices?

• Massive increase in use of military assets in large-scale natural disasters and conflicts; large nr. of different actors and mandates.

• Operationalize, contextualize principles & concepts of global Guidelines.

• Assist humanitarian, military and other governmental actors in principled, coherent, appropriate, effective coordination across the facets of humanitarian action.

• Better meet the needs of affected people through effective humanitarian-military interaction, decision-making, application of lessons learned & when appropriate improve deployment, employment, transition of FMA.