A targeted individual or household that actively participates in and benefits from food security assistance and the implementation of vulnerability reduction measures that contribute to enhance their resilience. May also be referred to as a recipient.[1]
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) defines a besieged area as “an area surrounded by armed actors with the sustained effect that humanitarian assistance cannot regularly enter, and civilians, the sick and wounded cannot regularly exit the area.”
The use of the recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction phases after a disaster to increase the resilience of nations and communities through integrating disaster risk reduction measures into the restoration of physical infrastructure and societal systems, and into the revitalization of livelihoods, economies and the environment.[2]
[1]Please see SPHERE Standards for more details on targeting: http://www.spherehandbook.org/en/food-security-food-transfers-standard-5-targeting-and-distribution/
[2]UNISDR, Terminology available at https://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/terminology#letter-e