Describes what is to be achieved with the implementation of specific planned measures. In some cases, this is a tangible benefit, in other cases this is a step towards a future benefit at a higher level. FSC objectives commonly contribute to improving life and saving livelihoods. Country level FSCs develop objectives in line with their national HRP.
Online platform to upload projects of UN agencies and NGOs participating in consolidated appeals or flash appeals. FSC partners upload their projects, and the Cluster Coordinator has to either approve or discard them; the decision is taken collectively, usually by the Cluster Review Committee.[1]
An internal, inter-agency management tool, introduced as part of the IASC Transformative Agenda, which serves as a course corrector and to identify areas for immediate corrective action. OPR is designed to help Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) determine whether adjustments or improvements are necessary.[2]
Represent changes in the institutional and behavioural capacities for development conditions that occur between the completion of outputs and the achievement of objectives/goals.[3]
Changes in skills or abilities and capacities of individuals or institutions, or the availability of new products and services that result from the completion of activities within a development intervention within the control of the organization. They are achieved with the resources provided and within the time period specified.[4]
[1]https://ops.unocha.org/Home.aspx
[2]https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/programme-cycle/space/page/operational-peer-review
[3] http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/pdf/rbm_report_10_july.pdf
[4]Ibid.