Learning from Kosovo: The Humanitarian Community Information Centre (HCIC)

keywords:

coordination
design
vision

Publication details

Publisher(s)	Overseas Development Institute (2001)
Author(s)	Paul Currion

Description

Following the mass return of Albanian refugees to Kosovo in June 1999, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was assigned responsibility for the Office of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs of the UN Interim Administration in Kosovo.

By mid-August, the HCIC was formally opened in the UNHCR building in Pristina. Its work included developing a contact list and sectoral matrix, and organising daily briefings for the humanitarian community. As well as office space, UNHCR agreed to provide administrative support for the Centre.