The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) is a service base operated by the World Food Programme

World Food Programme

The World Food Programme is the food aid branch of the United Nations, and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger worldwide. WFP provides food, on average, to 90 million people per year, 58 million of whom are children...

 (WFP) at the military airport in Brindisi

Brindisi

Brindisi is a city in the Apulia region of Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, off the coast of the Adriatic Sea.Historically, the city has played an important role in commerce and culture, due to its position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city...

, Apulia

Apulia

Apulia is a region in Southern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its most southern portion, known as Salento peninsula, forms a high heel on the "boot" of Italy. The region comprises , and...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

.

History

In June 2000, the former "Pisa Warehouse" managed by OCHA

Ocha

Ocha is a genus of moth in the family Lasiocampidae....

 was transferred to
Brindisi, establishing UNHRD.

Functions

UNHRD stockpiles rapid response equipment and survival items and organizes emergency shipments as well as technical assistance operations, maintaining a 365-day 24-hour duty service.

Figures

From the UNHRD base, emergency humanitarian relief items can be sent anywhere in the world within
24/48 hours.

In 2003, UNHRD carried out 174 shipments valued at US$ 8.8m total.

See also

• United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  
• World Food Programme
  World Food Programme
  The World Food Programme is the food aid branch of the United Nations, and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger worldwide. WFP provides food, on average, to 90 million people per year, 58 million of whom are children...
  
  
• United Nations Humanitarian Air Service
  United Nations Humanitarian Air Service
  The United Nations Humanitarian Air Services is a UN common service managed by the World Food Programme . UNHAS provides safe and reliable passenger and cargo air services to the entire humanitarian community especially to remote locations where due to lack of infrastructures and insecurity there...
  
  
• Asia Emergency Response Facility
  Asia Emergency Response Facility
  Asia Emergency Response Facility, or AERF, is a Special Operation of the United Nations World Food Programme, designed to establish an emergency response facility in Asia....