Decades of armed conflict have upended lives in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: OCHA/Wassy Kambale. In 2026, millions of people caught in conflict and disaster face their hardest test yet: survival. Funding cuts in 2025 stripped away lifelines, even as crises deepen.
Since 2004, OCHA has partnered with the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance to facilitate OCHA's Civil Military Coordination (UN-CMCoord) course in the Asia-Pacific Region.
OCHA is the part of the United Nations Secretariat responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. OCHA also ensures there is a framework...
As part of the Secretary-General's programme of reform, DHA becomes the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Its mandate is expanded to include the coordination of humanitarian response, policy development and humanitarian advocacy.
Highlights An updated mapping by OCHA shows 925 movement obstacles across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem – the highest number recorded in the past 20 years and 43 per cent above the two-decade average. Since January 2023, 45 Palestinian communities have been fully displaced across the West Bank due to settler attacks and related access restrictions, including nine communities in ...
Orange County Housing Authority (OCHA) administers federally funded programs to provide rental assistance to qualified tenants in privately owned rental housing.
Since January 2023, when OCHA began systematically documenting displacement linked to specific incidents of settler violence, 1,037 Palestinian households – comprising more than 5,600 people, including over 2,600 children – have been displaced across 107 communities and residential areas.
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