Mission
The United Nations Nepal Information Platform is an expanded Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator’s Office (RCHCO), established in August 2010 to support Nepal through its current period of transition. The RCHCO provides services to the UN Country Team (UNCT), the Government of Nepal (GoN) and Development Partners (DPs). Working through the Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC), the RCHCO is designed to provide integrated support on a range of peace-building, humanitarian and development issues. The office is financed for an initial two year period (2011-2012) with support from AusAID; UNDP BCPR; DFID Chase; DFID Nepal; Norway; Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, UN OCHA, UNDP Nepal, UN DOCO.
The RCHCO is not an implementation entity. Rather, it provides coordination, planning, advocacy, analysis, information management and communications support, to national and international efforts. Actual implementation of UN projects is undertaken by one or more of the 18 individual UN agencies that are resident in Nepal. The RCHCO in its current, expanded form, is intended as a temporary structure in response to the specific challenges of a transition situation, the high expectations on the RC/HC function in these periods, and the institutional flux that typically occurs in the UN during these phases.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.