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'''Éliane Duthoit''' (born 25 June 1946 in [[Brittany]]), a French citizen, is a senior [[United Nations]] official at the [[Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs]] (OCHA).

== Career overview ==
Since the early 1990s, Duthoit was appointed successively [[Humanitarian Coordinator|Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator]] in [[Ingushetia]] (covering [[Chechnya]]), and then head of the OCHA offices in [[Uganda]], [[Timor-Leste]], [[Nepal]], [[South Sudan|Southern Sudan]], and latterly  [[Chad]].  Between these appointments, she carried out short assignments with other functions in [[Burundi]] and elsewhere.

== Specific achievements ==
In [[Uganda]], Éliane Duthoit played an important role in attracting international attention to what the United Nations believed was a forgotten humanitarian crisis.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/events/tenstories_2006/story.asp?storyID=1300 |title=Northern Uganda: a humanitarian crisis that demands sustained focus}}</ref>

In [[Chechnya]], she played an important role in facilitating negotiations between the Russian military and Chechen rebels to ensure humanitarian relief for [[internally displaced person]]s (IDPs).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=9173 |title=Chechen refugees facing different fear}}</ref>

In 2006, she was appointed by [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[Kofi Annan]] as head of the OCHA office in [[Juba, Sudan|Juba]], [[South Sudan|Southern Sudan]], under the leadership of Under-Secretary-General [[Jan Egeland]].  This was when humanitarian needs were gradually leading the way to development, in which OCHA along with other United Nations agencies reportedly played an important role.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SHES-726Q4T?OpenDocument|title=UN: Humanitarian food aid leaving the way to development|date=12 April 2007 }}</ref>  In [[South Sudan|Southern Sudan]], she also played a significant role, in facilitating negotiations at the 2006-2007 [[Juba talks]] between the Government of [[Uganda]] and the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] (LRA), hosted and mediated by the Government of Southern Sudan with United Nations support in the person of [[Joaquim Chissano]] as [[Special Envoy of the Secretary-General]] for LRA-affected areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=49039|title=IRIN: Progress in LRA talks, but problems remain for IDPs}}</ref>

In August 2007, with increasing humanitarian needs in [[Chad]], she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General [[Ban Ki-moon]] as head of the OCHA office in Chad, based in the capital [[N'Djamena]].  In February 2008 when armed fighting erupted in N'Djamena, she stayed behind as part of a United Nations ''skeleton team''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200802080006.html|title=UN voices concern over fate of nearly 500,000 people in eastern Chad}}</ref>

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{{succession box | before = unknown | title = Head of the OCHA Office, [[Uganda]] | years = 2002&ndash;2005 | after = Tim Pitt}}
{{succession box | before = unknown | title = Head of the OCHA Office, [[Nepal]] | years = 2005&ndash;2006 | after = unknown }}
{{succession box | before = Rudolph Muller | title = Head of the OCHA Office, [[South Sudan|Southern Sudan]] | years = 2006&ndash;2007 | after = Vincent Lelei}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Head of the OCHA Office, [[Chad]]|years=2007–present}}
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