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UN humanitarian office launches website

    NAIROBI

    The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Burundi has established a website to serve as the main hub for information exchange on the humanitarian situation in that country.

    "It's a work in progress, and much remains to be done, but it promises to be a very useful tool," Caroline Stiebler, OCHA-Burundi Humanitarian Affairs Officer, told IRIN on Friday.

    The site already features monthly humanitarian situation updates; minutes of the weekly Contact Group and Provincial Focal Point Meetings; the 2002 Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Burundi; and the latest news on Burundi published by OCHA’s Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), which can already be viewed and downloaded from the site.

    In the coming weeks, OCHA hopes to make available online its regularly updated humanitarian activities, data tables and maps organised by sector and province, as well as the most recent contingency plan and the internally displaced person (IDP) Plan of Action, which is being finalised.

    The site can be accessed at: http://www.geocities.com/ochaburundi

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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