Report of the Secretary-General for the World Humanitarian Summit

The report prepared by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the World Humanitarian Summit offers an in-depth analysis of the Agenda for Humanity, following five core responsibilities. Ban Ki-moon endorses the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit which is to take place in May 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Under the heading Humanity: a shared responsibility —confronting the challenges of our time together the report proposes five grand responsibilities for a creating united vision of humanity.

Core responsibility one: political leadership to prevent and end conflicts

  • Demonstrate timely, coherent and decisive political leadership
  • Act early: Invest in risk analysis and act on findings, Create political unity to prevent and not just manage crises; Make success visible
  • Remain engaged and invest in stability: Work on more than one crisis at a time; Sustain engagement; Invest in stability and change time frames for results
  • Develop solutions with and for people

Core responsibility two: uphold the norms that safeguard humanity

  • Respect and protect civilians and civilian objects in the conduct of hostilities: Uphold the cardinal rules; Cease bombing and shelling populated areas
  • Ensure full access to and the protection of humanitarian and medical missions: Meet the essential needs of the population; Respect and protect humanitarian and medical missions
  • Speak out on violations: Seek the facts; Systematically condemn serious violations
  • Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability: Ensure respect through spheres of influence; Reinforce our global justice system; Use of the Security Council
  • Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity: Launch a global campaign; Adhere to core instruments; Actively promote compliance and engage in regular dialogue

Core responsibility three: leave no one behind

  • Reduce and address displacement : Reduce forced internal displacement by 2030; Share responsibility for addressing large movements of refugees; Prepare for cross-border displacement owing to disasters and climate change; Ensure adequate support to host countries and communities
  • Address the vulnerabilities of migrants and provide more regular and legal opportunities for migration
  • End statelessness in the next decade
  • Empower and protect women and girls
  • Eradicate gender-based violence and treat survivors with dignity
  • Eliminate gaps in education for children, adolescents and young people
  • Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation

Core responsibility four: change people’s lives —from delivering aid to ending need

  • Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems : Commit to as local as possible, as international as necessary; Place people at the centre: build community resilience
  • Anticipate, do not wait, for crises: Invest in data and risk analysis; Accept, own and act on risk
  • Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides
  • Context matters: create joint problem statements driven by data and analysis
  • Move from individual short-term projects to collective outcomes
  • Draw on comparative advantage
  • Shift from coordinating inputs to achieving outcomes together
  • Empower leadership for collective outcomes
  • Monitor progress: accountability for change
  • Retain emergency capacity
  • Finance collective outcomes

Core responsibility five: invest in humanity

  • Invest in local capacities ; risk ; stability
  • Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing: Create a new financing platform to address protracted crises
  • Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency; Increase and diversify the resource base; Increase cost-efficiency and transparency

Read the full report for the call on action in Istanbul. 

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