7 Improve mechanisms to deal with multidisciplinary issues and inter-cluster gaps by
facilitating a joint identification of these issues and gaps through inter-cluster
coordination and forming thematic working groups with clear terms of reference
and exit strategies following the model of the rubble removal task force in Haiti
or the thematic working groups in the West Bank. The Inter-Agency Standing
Committee (IASC) should finalize its guidance on inter-cluster coordination
and clearly define and delimited the roles in inter-cluster coordination of “meta-
clusters” relative to OCHA and reinforce OCHA’s mandate for inter-cluster
coordination. (s. also recommendation 4)