One United Nations (Ch 4, paras 132 - 133)
132. The UN is increasingly deploying integrated missions to address comprehensively and from a preventive perspective the interlinked dimensions of peace and security, humanitarian assistance and development. In appropriate situations, a single official has been designated as both Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Resident Coordinator, supported by an integrated task force at UN Headquarters. This allows the development community to work more closely with peacekeepers in a mutually supportive fashion and enables peacekeepers and development staff to address transition issues and concerns related to the reconstruction of crisis countries in a more coherent way. This integrated approach is currently being applied in Angola, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone. While operating within this integrated framework, the UN is taking care to retain its capacity to ensure the independence of humanitarian action, cooperating closely with non-governmental organizations and the Red Cross.
133. At the inter-governmental level, the ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group on African Countries Emerging from Conflict has advanced the UN’s capacity to address more coherently the socio-economic and political aspects of post-conflict recovery. It has also contributed to a further strengthening of collaboration between the UN and the Bretton Woods institutions in post-conflict situations.
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