UN OCHA has deployed an UNDAC team (United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination) to Tunisia to assist with the humanitarian efforts in helping refugees from Libya.

IHP is supporting the UN efforts with a two man team from DSB in Norway. The team will support UNDAC with telecommunications and IT facilities.

The photos show the situation on ground with a growing refugee camp, the On Site Operations and Coordination Centre (OSOCC) in function and Jan Olsson, who is a part of the UNDAC support staff team from IHP.

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. In addition, the camp will also serve as one of the regional headquarters in Pakistan (an OSOCC – On Site Operations Coordination Centre), from where the UN and a number of other humanitarian organizations will coordinate their relief efforts.

The base camp mission will involve a number of IHP countries. Friday 10 September a flight funded by Great Britain left Sweden with the base camp. Personnel are expected to follow early next week when Ramadan in Pakistan is over and the equipment is expected to be safely through customs in the country.

The personnel manning the camp come from Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Finland and Denmark.

According to the present plan, the base camp will be operational in Pakistan for approximately six month.

Photos: Office facilities (OSOCC) in southern Pakistan before arrival of the IHP base camp.

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.

Each module is deployed with a technical specialist. They are equipped with personal ICT-kits, including for example laptops, GPS, digital camera and satellite phones.

The main task is to provide information and communications technology to OCHA in Pakistan. The modules enables the team to establish basic communications, provides internet access and allows team members to operate simultaneously in different locations.

The modules arrived in Pakistan on 22 August and are deployed for three weeks. Nicolai Rauhe Kristensen, the project manager says about the mission: "The IHP is dedicated to assisting UN OCHA in this emergency, and I am sure the team and the equipment will assist in the overall effort of coordinating the relief to flood victims". After the three week mission period, the equipment is donated to UN OCHA and local staff has been trained to continue the use of it.

The ICT team from Norway, Sweden and Denmark after arrival in Pakistan

The floods have resulted in a widespread destruction of the infrastructure in Pakistan

The Planning Committee has agreed to postpone the Triplex exercise 2010 (arranged to be held in Denmark in October 2010) to April 2011.

More specifically, Triplex 2010 will take place from 8 April to 15 April 2011 at the Staff College of the Danish Emergency Management Agency at Snekkersten.

Triplex 2010 will be an inject-driven table top exercise. On 8 April 2011 the exercise will begin with an inject sent by e-mail to all participating countries and organisations. Between 8 April and 12 April the exercise will be frozen in order for the participants to travel to Snekkersten, and from 12 April to 15 April the exercise will be conducted at the Staff College in Snekkersten.

More information about Triplex 2010 will be available at www.ihp.nu soon.