UNHCR and IHP go hand in hand with emergency training in Revinge
REVINGE, Sweden, 7 March – Emergency responders from UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and partner organizations from around the globe had been operating from an International Humanitarian Partnership (IHP) base camp atop a frozen hill in Revinge to address the humanitarian needs of thousands of people fleeing their home country.
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Upon request from the United Nations IHP has sent a base camp to Pakistan to house 70 international aid workers in the southern part of the country.
The base camp will provide accommodation, kitchen and office facilities to the aid workers, who are participating in the relief work in the flooded Pakistan.
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The International Humanitarian Partnership, IHP, will support UN OCHA after the major floods in Pakistan.
Three ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) modules, from Norway, Sweden and Denmark, have arrived in Pakistan. The purpose is to support UN OCHA (United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs). The IHP team is designed to assist the United Nations and to assess the needs for incoming international relief as well as coordinating the overall humanitarian effort after the floods in Pakistan.
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