Joint Crisis Coordination Centre - JCC ناوەندی هاوبەشی هەماهەنگی قەیرانەكان

Joint Crisis Coordination Centre (JCC) for the Kurdistan Region

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has established a Joint Crisis Coordination Centre (JCC) under the supervision and guidance of the Ministry of Interior. This important effort has been supported by a number of international partners such as the Governments of United Kingdom (through the Department for International Developmen

t - DFID), Japan and Canada together with several United Nations (UN) agencies such as the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). The UN is continuously providing critical assistance with UN Development Programme (UNDP) playing a leading role. In addition to this the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency (MSB) supported the JCC through secondment of technical expertise facilitated and funded by UNDP. The centre will aim to respond not only to the ongoing humanitarian and development crisis, but also to future man-made and natural disasters in an ‘all hazards’ approach. Kurdistan Region and Iraq are witnessing one of the largest number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in their history — around 2.7 million— with more than 1.5 million of which have found a safe haven in the Kurdistan Region, in addition to the 245,000 Syrian refugees. The regional government is responsible for providing direct relief, though aid efforts have been seriously hampered by an ongoing domestic budgetary crisis (Baghdad’s decision to withhold KRG’s share of 17% budget), worsened by the sharp drop in the price of oil, and other major humanitarian crisis such as in neighboring Syria that have overstretched international aid/donor capacities. The humanitarian response is a joint effort by the three governorates of Kurdistan, municipalities, UN agencies and non-government organizations. A governmental oversight of the aid is critical to provide equitable public services to all affected people and communities. The JCC’s main functions include the collection and analysis of information through continuous monitoring, research and follow-up about all crises and humanitarian developments; policy advice to enable the government to take strategic decisions, management and mobilization of resources; and, the coordination of the crisis response among relevant ministries, departments, the international community and non-government organizations. The centre is part of the structure of the Ministry of Interior of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Minister of Interior directly supervises its functions and duties. The centre was established on 15 January 2015 following the Resolution 5719 approved by the Council of Ministers on 11 September 2014. The duties and functions of the centre are defined by the Mandate No.