The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

• Assists the Secretary General in coordinating humanitarian action in emergency cases requiring an intervention at the system level because of their complexity and wideness;
• Acting in close collaboration with the members of the inter-organizations permanent Committee as well as the intergovernmental organizations and competent NGOs;
• Ensures the coordination between the humanitarian and political aspects of the emergency situations and those linked to peace keeping;
• Provides functional services to the General Assembly, Security Council and Economic & Social Council for what is related to humanitarian affairs;
• Strives to strengthen the interventional means in the humanitarian sector in order to face natural disasters and thus promote sustainable development, in close collaboration with the members of the leading Committee of the international Decade for natural disaster prevention and other partners in the scope of the decade.