USG Jan Egeland at the Noon Briefing announcing a poineering agreement with the accounting firm of PriceWaterhouse Coopers for 8,000 hours of pro bono work to monitor disbursement of the nearly $1 billion tsunami relief fund.

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New York, 14 March 2005
Photo: UN Photo/Mark Garten

USG Jan Egeland and Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations in New York, Kenzo Oshima, briefing correspondents on humanitarian assistance and relief efforts to countires affected by the tsunami and earthquake in South Asia and on the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, which took place in Kobe, Japan, 18-22 January 2005.

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New York 13 January 2005
Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

 Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with USG Jan Egeland and other principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee to discuss the most effective coordination of humanitarian assistance to South Asian countries affected by the tsunami.
L-R USG Jan Egeland, SG Kofi Annan, Mark Mallock Brown (UNDP), Michael Moller, special assistant to the SG, Iqbal Riza, Chef de Cabinet, Carol Bellamy, UNICEF, James Morris, WFP and Jean-Jacques Graisse, WFP.

New York, 30 December 2004
Photo: UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, at the first press conference after the tsunami and earthquakes affected South Asian countries.  He assured that the UN was ready to provide assistance and stated that United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination teams had already been dispatched to the affected area to work with national authorities in providing search and rescue assistance.

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New York 27 December 2004
Photo: UN Photo/Evan Schneider