Brause Named to Advisory UN Post
FrontLines - November 2009
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Jon C. Brause
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Jon C. Brause, USAID’s
deputy assistant administrator
in the Bureau for Democracy,
Conflict and Humanitarian
Assistance, was recently named
to a group that provides advice
to the United Nations Central
Emergency Relief Fund (CERF).
CERF, created in December
2005, is charged with speeding
up relief operations in emergencies,
financing those that are
under-funded and making funds
available quickly. The fund,
which is managed by the U.N.’s
undersecretary for humanitarian
affairs, has allocated nearly
$1.3 billion for humanitarian
assistance to nearly 70 countries,
according to the U.N.
Brause will be part of the
fund’s 16-member advisory
panel, which includes representatives
from government,
humanitarian NGOs, and academia.
Seven new members
were named in October.
The other new members
are: Luz Amanda Pulido,
director of Colombia’s Risk
Management Department in
the Ministry of the Interior and
Justice; Satu Helinä Lassila,
senior adviser for Finland’s
Humanitarian Assistance Unit in
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Silvano Langa, senior adviser in
Mozambique’s Ministry of State
Administration; Janina Ochojska,
founder and head of Poland’s
Polska Akcja Humanitarna; Brig.
Gen. Abdullah Muhammad
Alsuwedi, the general manager
of Qatar’s Directorate of Civil
Defense; and Elena Madrazo,
secretary-general of Spain’s
Agency for International Aid and
Development (AECID).
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