For the past 30 years, international NGO Acted has been going the last mile to save lives. Currently, Acted supports 20 million people across 43 countries to meet their needs in hard-to-reach areas – and pursues a triple mandate as a humanitarian, environmental and development aid actor. Acted relies on an in-depth knowledge of local territories and contexts to develop and implement relevant long-term actions, with a wide range of local and international partners, building together a “3ZERO” world: Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, Zero Poverty
Acted has been present in the West Bank since 2007 and Gaza since 2008, with 3 offices in Jerusalem, Ramallah and Gaza. The NGO intervenes to meet the needs of vulnerable populations whose living conditions have deteriorated in recent years. The teams address urgent needs, support the rehabilitation and reconstruction of homes and agricultural assets. Beyond recovery programming, Acted is also carrying out innovative initiatives to strengthen populations’ capacities in the areas of digital technologies, tourism and social entrepreneurship.
a) Assume overall responsibility for co-leadership of the Working Group;
b) Work closely with other key members of the Working Group, including UNRWA, OCHA, and all other relevant members;
c) Secure commitments from humanitarian actors responding to or supporting the SM response;
d) Support both multi-sector and SM specific needs assessments and utilise existing secondary to inform sector response planning;
e) Identify gaps in the sector’s current coverage and advocate to address these gaps amongst humanitarian actors on behalf the affected population;
f) Lead updating of the Working Group work plan, and co-coordinate the harmonisation of response activities, ensuring that activities prevent overlap and duplication and thus maximize resources;
g) Assume overall responsibility for co-leadership of the Working Group;
h) Work closely with other key members of the Working Group, including UNRWA, OCHA, and all other relevant members;
i) Secure commitments from humanitarian actors responding to or supporting the SM response;
j) Support both multi-sector and SM specific needs assessments and utilise existing secondary to inform sector response planning;
k) Identify gaps in the sector’s current coverage and advocate to address these gaps amongst humanitarian actors on behalf the affected population;
l) Lead updating of the Working Group work plan, and co-coordinate the harmonisation of response activities, ensuring that activities prevent overlap and duplication and thus maximize resources;
m) Ensure that inter-agency response strategy for SM reflects key findings from needs assessments, identifying gaps, and formulating a sector-wide interagency response plan, taking into account the cross-cutting areas from other sectors, clusters or Working Groups.
n) Ensure that information is shared amongst Working Group members, and that information from other sectors, clusters and Working Groups is made available to Working Group members in order to improve planning, integration and implementation;
o) Ensure clear and effective communication occurs between the field and the national Working Group;
p) Contribute to regular OCHA sitreps, and take an active part in OCHA co-coordination meetings;
q) Ensure, along with other relevant stakeholders, representation of the Working Group in all relevant external meetings and collect/share information as relevant;
r) Ensure SM is explicitly included and prioritized in all multi-sector assessments and reports, including OCHA Sitreps;
s) Track and monitor Working Group member fundraising for SM specific interventions, and ensure that members are aware of funding opportunities;
t) If the country response has access to Humanitarian Pooled Funds, work with members to identify key Working Group priorities, assess submitted projects in regards to these priorities, their cost effectiveness, and the needs of the affected population. Recommend the most effective projects for funding to the Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator regardless of submitting agency;
u) Participate actively with the Working Group Lead Agency to global humanitairian planning activities such as Humanitarian Needs Overviews (HNOs) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRPs);
v) Form and chair any related Technical Working Groups that are requested by the Working Group members;
w) Consult and identify how the SMC Working Group should facilitate the move towards early recovery and plan an exit strategy for SMC;
x) Ensure that NGO perspectives and the consensus view of NGO Working Group members is represented within the Humanitarian Country Team and associated documents produced.
2. Capacity Building
a) Carry out capacity mapping of all current and potential SM actors – national and international humanitarian organizations as well as national institutions and the private sector ;
b) Promote and support training of humanitarian personnel and capacity building of humanitarian partners, based on the mapping and understanding of available capacity;
c) Identify learning and training opportunities for SM Working Group members and work in increase capacity in preparedness and response within the SM sector
d) Ensure that Working Group participants are aware of relevant policy guidelines, technical standards and relevant commitments that the Government/concerned authorities have undertaken under international human rights law;
e) Promote Protection main-streaming and regard for Do-No-Harm principles into the response of Working Group members. Liaise with the Protection, Child Protection, GBV, mine-action working groups where necessary ;
f) Where appropriate, ensure that capacity building of Acted programme staff occurs in order to ensure on-going sustainability and quality of Acted’s SM
g)Take steps to move the Working Group in line with the principles of the Transformative Agenda (e.g. accountability to the affected population, beneficiary participation)