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in Gorkha and
Chautara. Following
this decision,
dedicated
UN-CMCoord
officers were deployed
in each of
the humanitarian
hubs.
The Government
of Nepal
established a
Multi-national
Military Operations
and Coordination
Center
(MNMCC). The
Nepal Army
chaired the
MNMCC with
the participation
of foreign
military liaison
officers from
Algeria, Bangladesh,
Bhutan,
Canada, China,
Israel, India, Japan,
Pakistan, Singapore, Spain, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, U.K. and the U.S.
UNOCHA was invited by the
MNMCC chief to have a permanent
liaison function within the MNMCC
to facilitate information sharing and
coordination, as well as common
situational awareness between the
MNMCC and the UNDAC Team’s
On-Site Operations Coordination
Centre (OSOCC).
The Humanitarian-Military
Operations Coordination Center
(HuMOCC) was established by the
UN-CMCoord team as part of the
Nepal Earthquake response operation.
It was co-located with the
MNMCC. The HuMOCC objective
was to provide a predictable humanitarian-military-police
coordination
platform. Complementary to the
OSOCC, the HuMOCC aimed to
provide the physical space dedicated
to facilitating the interface between
humanitarians, national and foreign
military actors, as well as the national
Humanitarian and
military staff members
use the Multi-national
Military Operations
and Coordination Center
(MNMCC) and the
Humanitarian-Military
Operations Coordination
Centre (HuMOCC)
in Nepal to coordinate
relief operations
after a 7.8-magnitude
earthquake struck the
nation.
police.
As of 10 May, an Integrated Planning
Cell (IPC) was created within the
MNMCC. The primary objective of
the IPC was to reinforce the planning
and coordination “trading floor”
function that is usually activated as
part of the standard “MNCC” structure.
The following representatives
composed the IPC: Nepal Army, WFP
Logistics Cluster and UNOCHA.
Other actors would take part in the
UNOCHA
UNOCHA
UNOCHA
IPC on a case-by-case basis. As a
result of the establishment of the
HuMOCC and the IPC, a procedure
was initiated for the submission of
requests for assistance (RFA) coming
from humanitarian partners.
As part of the hand-over process,
the UN-CMCoord team leader
organized a debriefing session with
the team members to discuss the
UN-CMCoord strategy for Nepal
and formulate key recommendations.
Figure 1: Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu and the Nepal Earthquake were used to validate the Typhoon Haiyan after-action report recommendations.
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