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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Regional Office for West & Central Africa (OCHA ROWCA)
- Organization type:UN & International Organization
General contact information
- Address: B.P. 16 922 Fann
VDN Sacré Coeur 3 - Postal Code: 00000
- City: Dakar
- Country: Senegal
- Telephone: +221 867 27 50
- Fax: +221 867 26 18
- Email: ocharowca@un.org
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
ROWCA is based in Dakar, Senegal and supports the fifteen ECOWAS and ECCAS countries plus Mauritania i.e.
- Cloture à dakar de la sixième consultation régionale sur la gestion des catastrophes en Afrique de l'ouest
14 Sep 2012 - Benin: Regional meeting stresses need to learn from 2010 flooding, information sharing
3 Jun 2011 - West Africa: 'Reducing risk of natural hazards should be at the heart of the national programmes' - OCHA
1 Jun 2011
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Last updated on 10 May 2013
Working Areas
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- Complex Emergency
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- Information Management
- Water
- Early Warning
- Economics of DRR
- Civil Society/NGOs
- Governance
- Hazards
- Flood
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