Head, regional
office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA) Mr. Arman Navasardyan, would on Thursday, September 3, 2015
hosted by the American University of Nigeria (AUN), reports ITRealms.
The Executive
Director, Communications & Public Relations at AUN, Daniel Okereke, in a
press statement made available to ITRealms, hinted that Mr. Navasardyan, an
expert with 20 years’ experience across the world in disaster relief and
emergency preparedness.
Mr. Navasardyan,
Okereke said, would speak at the AUN Library at 5 pm on "Humanitarian
Coordination Architecture and Importance in the Context of North East
Nigeria."
ITRealms gathered
that most recently, Mr. Navasardyan, a citizen of Armenia, led
UN humanitarian efforts in South Sudan and Uganda. Prior to UN,
he worked for Oxfam, Care International, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Red
Cross, and the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The American
University of Nigeria, in partnership with the Adamawa Peace Initiative, has
been at the forefront of the humanitarian response to the Boko
Haram-created refugee crisis in northeast Nigeria.
On Tuesday, the
United States Agency for International Aid (USAID) announced an $801,000 grant
to support AUN’s project to educate IDPs. The group had earlier launched a One
Billion Naira Insurgency Appeal Fund to raise money for humanitarian assistance
to thousands of IDPs in the state.
Before his
engagement in Nigeria, Mr. Navasardyan coordinated humanitarian sectors in the
sovereign state of South Sudan, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Pakistan, Syria, and
several other crisis-ridden countries. He was working for Oxfam GB, Care
International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the Red Cross in his native
Armenia and elsewhere.
Mr. Navasardyan holds
a Master’s degree in Economics from the Armenian State University of Economics,
a diplomatic rank of Second Secretary from the Diplomatic Academy of the
Russian Federation, specializing in humanitarian diplomacy, and P-4 rank in the
United Nations system.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms)
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