Inter-Agency Standing Committee

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) "is a unique inter-agency forum for coordination, policy development and decision-making involving the key UN and non-UN humanitarian partners.

"The IASC was established in June 1992 in response to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/182 on the strengthening of humanitarian assistance. General Assembly Resolution 48/57 affirmed its role as the primary mechanism for inter-agency coordination of humanitarian assistance." [1]

Full Members

• Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)
• United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• United Nations High Comissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• World Health Organisation (WHO)

Standing Invitees

• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• American Council for Voluntary International Action (InterAction)
• International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (RSG on Human Rights of IDPs)
• Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR)
• World Bank (World Bank)

Source

Principals

Accessed September 2011:

• Chair - Valerie Amos - Emergency Relief Coordinator, OCHA

Full Members

• Catherine Bragg - Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA
• Margaret Chan - Director-General, WHO
• Helen Clark - Administrator, UNDP
• Joan Clos - Executive Director, UNHABIT
• António Guterres - High Commissioner, UNHCR
• Manoj Juneja - Deputy Director-General (Operations), FAO
• Anthony Lake - Executive Director, UNICEF
• Babatunde Osotimehin - Executive Director, UNFPA
• Josette Sheeran - Executive Director, WFP

Standing Invitees

• Chaloka Beyani - Special Rapporteur on the HR of IDPs, SR on HR of IDPs
• Yves Daccord - Director-General, ICRC
• Bekele Geleta - Secretary General, IFRC
• Robert Glasser - Secretary General (Representing SCHR), CARE Int.
• Saroj Kumar Jha - Program Manager, World Bank
• Paul O'Brien - Chair, ICVA Executive Committee, ICVA
• Navanethem Pillay - High Commissioner, OHCHR
• William Lacy Swing - Director-General, IOM
• Sam Worthington - President and CEO, InterAction

Contact

Web: http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iasc