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Top UN humanitarian official urges greater effort to foresee, prevent crises

Top UN humanitarian official urges greater effort to foresee, prevent crises

Jun 24, 2014, at 09:31 pm

New York, June 24 (IBNS): While the United Nations and its partners continued over the past year to meet the needs of an ever-increasing number of desperate people – from Syria to the Central African Republic, the Philippines and beyond – the world body’s Emergency Coordinator Monday called for “a new [humanitarian] business model” – one that manages risks rather than deals with crises.