JUBA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan and United Nations agencies on Monday launched a center to help coordinate humanitarian operations and a website to facilitate response and disaster risk information.
The National Coordination Operation Center is a centralized facility intended to achieve durable solutions, emergency response preparedness, and early warning analysis and also serve as a depository for risk management information.
Peter Gatwech Kulang, the chairperson of the South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, said that the center serves as a coordination mechanism for interactions between the government, humanitarians and stakeholders for emergency preparedness, response and recovery programming.
This ensures the most vulnerable population receives timely support, saving lives and safeguarding livelihoods and key infrastructure, according to Kulang.
Dominic Sam, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) country representative in South Sudan, said the country is vulnerable to a wide range of climate-induced and man-made disasters that are occurring with increasing frequency and intensity, derailing the resilience of the people and government systems of the country.
"The establishment of a national coordination center strengthens the country's preparedness and response to disaster emergencies and displacements, it operationalizes the orientation of the government of South Sudan that is focused on a proactive risk-informed and people-centered approach to tackling climate, and man-made disaster and shocks," Sam said.
