In London, the Department for International Development (DfID) opened its emergency crisis co-ordination room on the morning the earthquake happened, from where staff have been helping to co-ordinate efforts on the ground, liaise with other international relief organisations and work with the Iranian government to ensure that the right equipment gets to where it is needed as quickly as possible.
They co-ordinate efforts across the country and among departments.
More needs to be done to co-ordinate efforts to prevent trafficking.
I've sometimes wondered whether it is time for another national women's liberation movement conference to co-ordinate efforts and define aims.
Last year I set up a Green Growth Group with likeminded EU ministers to co-ordinate efforts for an ambitious outcome.
During hospital visits she dashed down corridors and sought out courtyards trying to find a phone signal with which to co-ordinate efforts back in the office.
See articleA new agendaThe G20 ended its summit in Pittsburgh by agreeing to implement a global "framework" to rebalance members' economies and co-ordinate efforts at regulating finance.
The preferred approach among Eurosceptics generally, however, is for every country to respond in their own way with the EU helping to co-ordinate efforts but with no power to direct things.
It also launched the "south-west border initiative" three years ago, to co-ordinate efforts by the DEA, FBI, border patrol, customs service and sundry state and local authorities.
Although doubt has been cast on the Saudi defence ministry's list of 34 supposedly involved countries, it is aiming to co-ordinate efforts against extremists in several countries from Riyadh.
Yuval Steinitz, the strategic-affairs minister, is seeking 100m shekels to co-ordinate efforts by the army, the foreign ministry, the government press office and other bodies to combat delegitimisation.
