Jan Egeland Merge Quotations

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

This appeal, ... is truly forward-looking in that it attempts to avert hunger and at the same time promote sustainable recovery of livelihoods. Investing in prevention will prove much more cost effective than providing emergency assistance year after year.

This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.

The earthquake in Kashmir afflicting three countries is becoming worse by the day as the extent of the emergency dawns upon us,

We're sending around a hat now, we don't know how much is in the hat when it's coming back - in an emergency situation,

What we need is something like no other emergency relief effort,

We did well in the emergency phase, ... But the reconstruction went slower than we had hoped.