Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies
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Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies(CHA) was established in Sri Lanka
in April 1997 to serve a membership and has since become a national service provider in the non-profit sector.
CHA's field offices are located in 12 districts in the North, South and East in Sri Lanka. In addition its post-tsunami
information management centres are located in all tsunami affected districts by the tsunami tidal waves which was caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
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CHA is served by a Staff of 153 including professionals with managerial and representational authority, headed by an Executive Director.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
in April 1997 to serve a membership and has since become a national service provider in the non-profit sector.
CHA's field offices are located in 12 districts in the North, South and East in Sri Lanka. In addition its post-tsunami
Tsunami
A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...
information management centres are located in all tsunami affected districts by the tsunami tidal waves which was caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake...
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General Profile
CHA represents the resources and work of the humanitarian sector in Sri Lanka. CHA's membership supports and intervenes in the sector across all parts of the country.CHA is served by a Staff of 153 including professionals with managerial and representational authority, headed by an Executive Director.
CHA's main objectives
- 1. Advocate for peacePeacePeace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...
, human rightsHuman rightsHuman rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
and development with specific focus on diversity, fundamental rightsFundamental rightsFundamental rights are a generally-regarded set of entitlements in the context of a legal system, wherein such system is itself said to be based upon this same set of basic, fundamental, or inalienable entitlements or "rights." Such rights thus belong without presumption or cost of privilege to all...
and freedom - 2. Share the Knowledge and skills particularly in the areas of information gathering, processing and dissemination
- 3. Facilitate to network the national and international organizations and their resources
- 4. Assist in post-Tsunami interventions.