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This paper begins with a fairly detailed account of the history and organizational set-up of Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and move on to describe its mandate. The authors then go through its main constituencies, since these are here assumed to be central in shaping how the interests of UN actors are formulated and advanced. They also examine OCHA’s work on, and use of, the PoC concept, and detail some of the consequences for other actors – such as DPKO, UNHCR and the OHCHR.