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WHO IS INVOLVED?

The United Nations has intensified its efforts to help address the threat and the impact of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The UN is contributing on multiple fronts, through political, peacekeeping, human rights, humanitarian and development activities. Its efforts are carried out in support of the African Union (AU) and the governments and people of the four affected countries – the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan and Uganda, in collaboration with other partners.

The United Nations entities involved include: the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), the Department of Political Affairs (DPA), Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA), UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), UN Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), UN Office to the African Union (UNOAU), UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Bank.