Working Group Description

The Inter-Agency Coordination unit is based in Athens to enhance and strengthen coordination, provide technical support and oversight in all coordination related issues, promote coordination standards and quality assurance and support country-wide capacity building efforts. The Inter-Agency Coordination Unit also support and guide inter-sector coordination, ensuring coherent and consistent approaches between the sector, providing technical oversight and guidance to sector working groups and guiding emergency preparedness, including contingency planning. The Inter-Agency Coordination Unit also supports information management for coordination including the development and management of information systems. The analysis of inter-sector data to support response decision making, the harmonization of codes and standards to facilitate comparison and the provision of technical expertise and guidance.