High-ranking UN official Gilles Michaud wants to convince UN donor countries — Canada included — to boost the amount of money they spend to protect UN humanitarian assistance programs.
Gilles Michaud with a UN mission in Somalia. 'There is no humanitarian program that can be delivered without security.'
Michaud, 57, who runs the UN's Department of Safety and Security , left the meeting knowing he wouldn't collect the reward on Haqqani — but confident he had done what could be done to ensure the safety of humanitarian workers in the absence of American soldiers. As the head of UNDSS, Michaud — a native of Saint-Léonard in northern New Brunswick — is responsible for protecting hundreds of thousands of UN employees and their families, the organization's buildings across the globe, and tens of billions of dollars in humanitarian aid to high-risk areas.
In recent weeks, he has been hitting up potential donor countries with one-time, extra-budgetary funding requests to modernize his department. His goal is to build an emergency response team that can move quickly into high-risk areas and ensure more effective UN deployments. A woman attends to her malnourished child at the United Nations Nutrition Center in Banki, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, on May 3, 2022.
Joyce Msuya, UN assistant secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs, is a native of Tanzania who attended the University of Ottawa. Although her own humanitarian aid programs constantly require additional funds, she said she supports UNDSS's request for more money. "We deal with crises daily. We cannot ourselves be in a state of crisis when we respond to crises. So we need to have a certain serenity in the management of crises and an ability to respond to these crises that is permanent and not linked to the mobilization of funds for a specific crisis," said Florence Poussin, deputy director of regional operations for UNDSS.To ensure the safety of humanitarian deployments, the UN constantly negotiates access with warring parties.
The UN is active in 125 countries, including 40 that qualify as high-risk locations. Ensuring security in these countries goes beyond the presence of armed guards.
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