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The Central Asia region is highly prone to a wide range of natural disasters. It is one of the most seismically active areas of the world, which, together with floods, landslides, extreme cold and drought regularly cause human losses, economic and environmental damages. The threat of a large-scale event affecting several Central Asian countries at once has led to renewed interest in regional cooperation on disaster management.
Given the need to reinforce natural disaster response and preparedness activities in the Central Asian region, OCHA established a regional presence through the deployment of a Regional Disaster Response Advisor (RDRA) for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan based in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
What we do:
- We coordinate the response to emergencies;
- We mobilize financial resources;
- We mobilize knowledge and information;
- We work on disaster preparedness;
- We advocate humanitarian issues.
Our objectives:
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Strengthen capacity and coordination of national counterparts and the UN system in disaster prone/affected countries in the region within the domain of natural disaster and emergency preparedness and response;
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Facilitate disaster response preparedness and management at the national level with technical advice and mobilize regional/international support;
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Promote regional cooperation among governments and international organizations and enhance emergency response capacities;
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Improve humanitarian decision-making and response through more coherent and sharpened advocacy and information management;
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Strengthen humanitarian partnerships and networks in the region.
