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Humanitarian Cluster System
Disaster response coordination mechanism / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Humanitarian Cluster System is a system, used by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, to coordinate multi-agency responses to large humanitarian emergencies.[1][2]
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The system has been used since 2005 to improve the quality of humanitarian aid delivery.[3] The cluster system categorizes humanization activities into eleven work areas, and four cross-cutting themes, and identifies coordinating organizations for each of them.[3]
The coordination system has improved some aspects of humanitarian responses, and while it empowers international organizations, it also excludes local and national organizations, contrary to the widely accepted localisation agenda.[4]