OCHA – International Diplomat America

Interview with Pat Banks, Co-ordinator and founder of the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)

02/01/2008

The Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) celebrated its tenth year of operation last year. A part of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Human Activities (OCHA), yet independent, IRIN was established in 1995 to provide accurate and timely information about the Great Lakes crisis so that the humanitarian community would be better informed of complex situations and events. Initiated as a text service covering Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), today IRIN is…

Interview with Sir John Holmes, Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

10/07/2007

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When you meet a British “Sir”, you expect an elderly, grey-haired, avuncular gentleman and not a nice, young, friendly person like Sir John. His colleagues in the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have, by the way, put the “Sir” aside, so Sir John is now just John… Before taking up his new position at the United Nations, Sir John was a career British diplomat who had had postings in Russia, the UN Mission in New York…