Special Liaison Offices

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OHRA has two Special Liaison Offices, one in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and one in Washington, DC, United States of America, which are responsible for liaison with multilateral bodies. A brief description of their functions is outlined below.

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Special Liaison Office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Maintains and strengthens ORPE’s relations with the AU, IGAD, the Economic Commission for Africa, diplomatic missions and other relevant actors by contributing to their enhanced understanding on poverty alleviaton issues. The Office is expected to work closely with all three bodies, particularly the African Union Commission, which is the supreme continental policy organ, to ensure appropriate inclusion of our Restoring Human Dignity Programs into its developmental, political, social and peace and security policy agendas. This relationship enables ORPE to translate political decisions into practical programmatic responses at the regional level. The Office’s collaboration with IGAD, which is one of the eight regional economic communities recognized by the AU, is informed by, among others, AU continental policy decisions. The Office is expected to be accredited to and works closely with the Economic Commission for Africa to mainstream of restoring human dignity into multilateral initiatives focusing on Africa. The Office works to ensure OHRA Headquarters and relevant ORPE Country Offices are made aware of key decisions and new policy directions in all three bodies. The Special Liaison Office also is expected to have full Country Office responsibilities with the host government.

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OHRA Mission. Strengthens restoring human dignity approach within the United States congressional system and ORPE’s relations with diplomatic missions and NGOs. The Mission contributes to these stakeholders’ understanding to ORPE'S approach issues by facilitating international policy dialogue on ORPE's Restoring Human Dignity approach and by promoting the inclusion of ORPE's approach in frameworks and agendas on peace and security, human and sustainable development and humanitarian response. With much of the United Nations decision-making and coordination mechanisms taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Mission is expected to work closely with United Nations secretariat departments/offices and agencies, funds and progras headquartered in New York to enhance this collaboration. This also entails providing secretariat support for the upcoming Member State negotiations towards a global compact for safe, orderly and regular approach of restoring human dignity. The Mission strengthens ORPE’s activities within international institutions by participating in policy, funding and operational mechanisms. In this regard, the Mission is expected to work closely with ORPE's Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country Offices worldwide to ensure an overall coordinated approach on policies and programming.