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.