The Humanitarian Information Centre (HIC) for Pakistan is a common service to the humanitarian community managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and operates in coordination with a number of partners including the United Nations Joint Logistics Cell (UNJLC), the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO).

Access to timely and accurate information is essential to make relief efforts more effective. The HIC has been established to provide you with access to that information and to help you to share your information more widely with the rest of the community.  But access to information is only part of the story.  Our goal is to help the humanitarian community improve the management of information, by making better use of basic  ‘building blocks’ such as place codes and links to mapping.

The HIC provides a range of services and products designed to help you and your organisation to make operational decisions during the emergency period.  These include orientation products (including contact lists and meeting schedules), map products (covering issues from administrative boundaries to security concerns) and technical advice to organisations to help them manage data and information more effectively.  We are always seeking to develop more ways to help you and our staff will be happy to discuss the specific needs of your organisation.  We are developing new products and services all the time – so if you want to get involved, visit us soon!

For a full explanation of how we can help your organisation, please visit us at the HIC Islamabad Office - House 124, Street 11, E-7, Islamabad, Pakistan or contact the HIC representative in the humanitarian hubs in Muzaffarabad, Mansehra and Bagh.