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into account relevant resources that have already been developed, including
cluster management handbooks developed by individual clusters, training
materials developed by the Cluster/Sector Lead Training Program and relevant
management literature.
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» OCHA together with Global Cluster Lead Organizations and Focal Points for
Cross-Cutting Issues
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Ensure that cluster coordinators, especially at sub-national level, have sufficient time and
adequate skills to fulfill their responsibilities. Cluster coordination should always
be a substantial part of the terms of reference of the coordinator and should
not be put on top of a fulltime position. The skills needed include management
skills, facilitation skills, decision-making skills, consensus-building capacities,
communication and networking skills, as well as an understanding of the
local context. 80 percent of potential cluster coordinators should get access to
training within the next two years, for example through mainstreaming cluster
coordination into standard management trainings within the cluster lead
organizations or specific global or local cluster trainings. Training programs
need to be reviewed in terms of content and participants. This review should
include feedback from successful country cluster coordinators. Lead agencies
also need to evaluate whether trained staff are deployed as coordinators.
» Cluster Lead Organizations at global and country level, Humanitarian Coordinator
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Improve information sharing and management by and among clusters, e.g. by using
simple and creative methods for sharing information to free up meeting time;
creating more cluster-specific systems for identifying duplications; expanding
the “Who does What Where” by including the status of projects; expanding the
practice of having a cluster website and managing it, as well as the use of local
Google Groups or similar platforms; and ensuring data quality and consistency
over time. For the implementation of these steps, the respective roles of cluster lead
organizations, especially those of “meta-clusters” and OCHA need to be further
clarified. Cluster lead organizations need to have proper information management
capacities and OCHA needs to ensure the compatibility of information management
systems through the provision of templates and standards for information sharing.
The Humanitarian Coordinator should hold cluster lead agencies and OCHA
accountable for the timely delivery of relevant information.
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