- Eliane Duthoit
Eliane Duthoit (born 1946,
Brittany ), a French citizen, is a seniorUnited Nations official at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).Career overview
Since the early 1990s, Duthoit was appointed successively Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in
Ingushetia (coveringChechnya ), and then head of theOCHA offices inUganda ,Timor-Leste ,Nepal ,Southern Sudan , and latterlyChad . Between these appointments, she carried out short assignments with other functions inBurundi and elsewhere.Specific achievements
In
Uganda , Eliane Duthoit played an important role in attracting international attention to what theUnited Nations believed was a forgotten humanitarian crisis. [cite web|url=http://www.un.org/events/tenstories_2006/story.asp?storyID=1300 |title=Northern Uganda: a humanitarian crisis that demands sustained focus]In
Chechnya , she played an important role in facilitating negotiations between theRussia n military and Chechen rebels to ensure humanitarian relief forinternally displaced person s (IDPs). [cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=9173 |title=Chechen refugees facing different fear]In 2006, she was appointed by
United Nations Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan as head of theOCHA office inJuba ,Southern Sudan , under the leadership of Under-Secretary-GeneralJan Egeland . This was when humanitarian needs were gradually leading the way to development, in which OCHA along with otherUnited Nations agencies reportedly played an important role. [cite web|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SHES-726Q4T?OpenDocument|title=UN: Humanitarian food aid leaving the way to development] InSouthern Sudan , she also played a significant role, in facilitating negotiations at the 2006-2007Juba talks between the Government ofUganda and theLord's Resistance Army (LRA), hosted and mediated by the Government ofSouthern Sudan withUnited Nations support in the person ofJoaquim Chissano asSpecial Envoy of the Secretary-General forLRA -affected areas. [cite web|url=http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=49039|title=IRIN: Progress in LRA talks, but problems remain for IDPs]In August 2007, with increasing humanitarian needs in
Chad , she was appointed byUnited Nations Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon as head of theOCHA office inChad , based in the capitalN'Djamena . In February 2008 when armed fighting erupted in theChad ian capitalN'Djamena , she stayed behind as part of a United Nations "skeleton team" [cite web|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200802080006.html|title=UN voices concern over fate of nearly 500,000 people in eastern Chad]References
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