Immediate post-emergency reconstruction and rehabilitation:

Social and economic rehabilitation in the aftermath of emergencies to facilitate recovery and resilience building and enable populations to restore their livelihoods in the wake of an emergency situation (e.g. trauma counselling and treatment, employment programs). Includes infrastructure necessary for the delivery of humanitarian aid; restoring pre-existing essential infrastructure and facilities (e.g. water and sanitation, shelter, health care services, education); rehabilitation of basic agricultural inputs and livestock.

Material relief assistance and services:

Shelter, water, sanitation, education, health services including supply of medicines and malnutrition management, and other non-food relief items (including cash and voucher delivery modalities) for the benefit of crisis-affected people, including refugees and internally displaced people in developing countries. Includes assistance delivered by or coordinated by international civil protection units in the immediate aftermath of a disaster (in-kind assistance, deployment of specially-equipped teams, logistics and transportation, or assessment and coordination by experts sent to the field). Also includes measures to promote and protect the safety, well-being, dignity and integrity of crisis-affected people, including refugees and internally displaced persons in developing countries.

Emergency food assistance:

Provision and distribution of food; cash and vouchers for the purchase of food; non-medical nutritional interventions for the benefit of crisis-affected people, including refugees and internally displaced people in developing countries in emergency situations. Includes logistical costs.

Relief co-ordination and support services:

Measures to co-ordinate the assessment and safe delivery of humanitarian aid, including logistic, transport and communication systems; direct financial or technical support to national governments of affected countries to manage a disaster situation; activities to build an evidence base for humanitarian financing and operations, sharing this information and developing standards and guidelines for more effective response; funding for identifying and sharing innovative and scalable solutions to deliver effective humanitarian assistance.

Disaster prevention & multi-hazard response preparedness:

Building the capability, capacity and responsiveness to disasters of international, regional and national humanitarian actors. Support to the institutional capacities of national and local government, specialized humanitarian bodies, and civil society organizations to anticipate, respond to and recover from the impact of potential, imminent and current hazardous events and emergency situations that pose humanitarian threats and could call for a humanitarian response. This includes risk analysis and assessment; mitigation; preparedness, such as stockpiling of emergency items; and training and capacity-building aimed to increase the speed and effectiveness of lifesaving assistance delivered during crises.