We now have agreement on a new and improved Emergency Relief Fund, and a Peacebuilding Commission.
It will offer emergency relief to help tide folks over until they find another job.
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Then, Japan's government was slower than South Korea's to set up an emergency relief operation.
Because reconstruction work takes longer to organise than emergency relief, it has to begin right away.
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Another third was for emergency relief to help folks who've borne the brunt of this recession.
John Holmes is Undersecretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
In September, an emergency relief effort was launched by Caribbean neighbours and independent aid organisations.
We've offered emergency relief to more than 1 million seniors, veterans, and other Virginians who need it most.
He has pointed out that the UN can do little beyond emergency relief work without a further UN resolution.
The international community did respond with an emergency relief operation for the growing number of refugees who were running for their lives.
The site details the countries they have sought refuge in, the emergency relief efforts under way and the aid consignments arriving from abroad.
NGOs have known that as well as providing emergency relief and funding development projects they must also try to influence the policy agenda.
And I know that there's been some talk about whether there's going to be a slowdown in getting funding out here, emergency relief.
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Although in the short run they allow emergency relief the distribution of food and medical aid, for example they can quickly become sources of instability.
Although North Korea has not officially announced the changes, a senior UN official dealing with emergency relief work has confirmed they have taken place.
In nearby Pakistan, however, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority, which coordinates emergency relief, said the death toll was 39 so far.
The United Nations announced Monday that Valerie Amos, its under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will visit Damascus and Beirut, Lebanon, starting Tuesday.
Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator at the news conference in New York.
One-third of the Recovery Act was emergency relief, like increasing unemployment benefits and helping states keep teachers and police officers and firefighters from losing their jobs.
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It has cut 120, 000 Gazans from its ration-books and 3, 000 workers from its job programme, and this week announced that more emergency relief was in jeopardy.
In particular, the executive and legislative branches should act with urgency on the replenishment and considerable expansion of what are called Commander's Emergency Relief Funds (CERF).
These leaders in the Senate who are advancing a misguided notion that emergency relief somehow discourages people from looking for a job should talk to these folks.
But 300, 000 are believed to have died in the tribal conflict in the past two years, said John Holmes, who also is the United Nations emergency relief coordinator.
When I look at the list of contributors to the United Nations Central Emergency Relief Fund, I would like to see the countries from Asia higher on the list.
And I called for the extension of emergency relief like unemployment insurance and health benefits to help those who've lost their jobs, while boosting consumer spending and promoting job growth.
In nearby Pakistan, however, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority, which is tasked with coordinating emergency relief, said the death toll was much higher, at 39 so far.
TOHL, which stands for Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics, has developed a simple method to deliver fresh water for emergency relief: install a really long plastic tube with a helicopter.
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Right now, he says, the government is focused on providing emergency relief such as water and food to the thousands and thousands of Haitians who lost their homes in the storms.
After days of trying to obtain permission from Syrian authorities to travel to the country, Valerie Amos, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will arrive Wednesday in Damascus, she said.
UN, whose agencies provided post-war emergency relief, and which is now developing programmes on human rights and press freedom as well as reconstruction work, has denied reports that it will leave the country.
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