World Humanitarian Summit: 125 million people in need of humanitarian assistance by United Nations News, agencies 6:32pm 13th May, 2016   125 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, by Ban Ki-moon    The United Nations Secretary-General has stressed how current stories were serving to compel the international community into agreeing to align major global commitments to support the world’s most vulnerable people.    Stressing the need for solidarity with and heightened support for migrants fleeing war and persecution, he added a call to ensure that humanitarian personnel have the security they need to carry out their vital work.    He said the World Humanitarian Summit is a key element of the new global agenda for change and action, alongside the sustainable development goals and the Climate agreement reached in Paris.    “We look to the World Humanitarian Summit to generate strong global support for bold changes in humanitarian action,” he said. “This is the only way we will meet the enormous challenges we face in the coming years and decades. The world is changing, and we need to make sure we change with it to meet the needs of those affected by crisis in a timely and effective manner.”    Stressing the huge input of humanitarian action to saving lives worldwide every day, he also acknowledged the huge challenges such action faced, including urbanization, population growth, environmental degradation, conflict, climate change and resource scarcity, which were particularly powerful in areas of underdevelopment, poverty and inequality, leaving people more and more vulnerable.    “The number of people in need of humanitarian assistance around the world has doubled in just ten years,” Mr. Ban noted. “More people are displaced by conflict than at any time since 1945. That figure stands at over 60 million. People displaced within their countries because of conflict are now displaced for an average of 17 years. Millions of children are out of school, sometimes for years. And the situation is getting worse. 125 million people in need of humanitarian assistance continues to demand urgent attention”.    He said that a billion people could be displaced because of climate change by 2050, with more than 40 per cent of the global population living in areas of severe water stress. Additionally, economic losses from natural disasters were likely to increase dramatically from the $300 billion currently lost annually.    ‘Our challenge is clear: we must act now to strengthen our efforts,” he said. “The World Humanitarian Summit aims to build a more inclusive, diverse and truly global humanitarian system.”    Change must be made at the global, regional and national levels to reaffirm the principles that guide humanitarian work. The Summit would focus the world’s attention on people caught in crisis, especially those that may have receded from the spotlight but where suffering remains acute.    “We have the skills, resources, tools and technology,” he said. “Together, we can create a world where human suffering from crises is vastly reduced.”    The Solution to the world''s problems: Choose humanity, says Hervé Verhoosel spokesman for the World Humanitarian Summit.    These are desperate times. We are witnessing the highest level of humanitarian needs since World War II. The numbers are staggering, with 125 million in dire need of assistance. Over 60 million people have been forcibly displaced, and in the last two decades 218 million people were affected by disasters each year.    More than $20 billion is needed to aid the 37 countries currently affected by these mounting issues. Time and time again it has been said that our world is at a tipping point, but now these words are truer than ever before. Unless immediate action is taken, 62% -- nearly two-thirds of our global population -- could be living in what is classified as fragile situations by 2030.    We’re coming face to face with refugees from war-torn nations and witnessing first-hand the consequences of global warming in our own backyards. The situation has hit home, and we are slowly beginning to understand that none of us is immune to the ripple effects of armed conflicts.    Now is the time to stand. Now is the time to reverse the rising trend of humanitarian need. Now is the time to create clear, actionable goals for change to be implemented within the next three years that are grounded in our common humanity, the one value that unites us all. This is why the United Nations secretary-general is calling on world leaders to reinforce our collective responsibility to guard humanity.    Leaders are being asked to take action and agree to a core set of actions to chart a course for real change. This foundation for change was not born overnight, however, but rather a direct result of three years of consultations with more than 23,000 people in 153 countries.    The road map for the summit, the secretary-general''s report "One Humanity: Shared Responsibility," outlines a clear vision for global leadership to take swift and collective action toward strengthening the coordination of humanitarian and crisis relief.    As such, the summit is not an end point, but a kickoff toward making a real difference in the lives of millions of women, men and children. It’s an opportunity for global leaders to mobilize the political will to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.    The agenda specifies five core responsibilities that the international community must shoulder if we expect to end our shared humanitarian crises. These core responsibilities offer a framework for unified and concentrated action to summit attendees, leadership and the public at large. Once implemented, change will inevitably follow.    We are coming face to face with refugees from war-torn nations and witnessing first-hand the consequences of global warming in our own backyards.    1. Prevent and End Conflict: Political leaders (including the U.N. Security Council) must resolve to not only manage crises but also to prevent them. They must analyze conflict risks and utilize all political and economic means necessary to prevent conflict and find solutions, working with their communities – youth, women and faith-based groups – to find the ones that work. The summit presents a unique opportunity to gain political momentum and commitment from leaders to promote and invest in conflict prevention and mediation in order to reduce the impacts of conflicts, which generate 80% of humanitarian needs.    2. Respect Rules of War: Most states have signed and implemented international humanitarian and human rights laws, but, sadly, few are respected or monitored. Unless violators are held accountable each time they break these laws, civilians will continue to make up the vast majority of those killed in conflict -- roughly 90%. Hospitals, schools and homes will continue to be obliterated, and aid workers will continue to be barred access from injured parties. The summit allows a forum at which leadership can promote the protection of civilians and respect for basic human rights.    3. Leave No One Behind: Imagine being forcibly displaced from your home, being stateless or targeted because of your race, religion or nationality. Now, imagine that development programs are put in place for the world''s poorest, world leaders are working to diminish displacement, women and girls are empowered and protected, and all children -- whether in conflict zones or not -- are able to attend school. Imagine a world that refuses to leave you behind. This world could become our reality. At the summit, the secretary-general will call on world leaders to commit to reducing internal displacement by 50% before 2030.    4. Working Differently to End Need: While sudden natural disasters often take us by surprise, many crises we respond to are predictable. It is time to commit to a better way of working hand-in-hand with local systems and development partners to meet the basic needs of at-risk communities and help them prepare for and become less vulnerable to disaster and catastrophe. Both better data collection on crisis risk and the call to act early are needed and required to reduce risk and vulnerability on a global scale. The summit will provide the necessary platform for commitment to new ways of working together toward a common goal -- humanity.    5. Invest in Humanity: If we really want to act on our responsibility toward vulnerable people, we need to invest in them politically and financially, by supporting collective goals rather than individual projects. This means increasing funding not only to responses, but also to crisis preparedness, peace-building and mediation efforts. It also means being more creative about how we fund national nongovernmental organizations -- using loans, grants, bonds and insurance systems in addition to working with investment banks, credit card companies and Islamic social finance mechanisms. It requires donors to be more flexible in the way they finance crises (i.e. longer-term funding) and aid agencies to be as efficient and transparent as possible about how they are spending money.    Our world is at a tipping point. The World Humanitarian Summit and its Agenda for Humanity are necessary more today than ever before in history. We, as global citizens, must urge our global leadership to come together to commit to action to reduce human suffering, choose humanity and help make impossible choices a thing of the past.    * Managed by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the first World Humanitarian Summit will bring together governments, humanitarian organizations, people affected by humanitarian crises and the private sector, to propose solutions to the world''s most pressing challenges.    http://sgreport.worldhumanitariansummit.org/ http://www.unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/core-responsibilities-foundation-world-humanitarian-summit http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/conferencessummits/world-humanitarian-summit-23-24-may-2016-istanbul-turkey/ http://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/media#media-release-linking http://consultations.worldhumanitariansummit.org/file/530820/view/581078 http://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/key-documents    http://www.unocha.org/2016appeal/ http://www.unocha.org/stateofaid/ http://www.humanitarianresponse.info/appeals http://reliefweb.int/report/world/un-and-partners-launch-164-billion-humanitarian-appeal-bring-aid-57-million-people-2015 http://www.unocha.org/2014_year_in_review/ http://www.unocha.org/data-and-trends-2014/ http://www.unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/results    May 2016 (Guardian News)    Global crises overwhelming aid system - Humanitarian summit to tackle growing demands on aid agencies struggling to cope with competing emergencies    The world’s top official managing migration flows has warned that the global aid system is crumbling under an overwhelming number of crises, from wars across the Middle East and Asia to natural disasters and earthquakes.    William Swing, veteran head of the International Organisation for Migration, has spent more than five decades working across some of the world’s worst troublespots but believes the scale of current challenges dwarfs anything he has grappled with before. “The system as it stands now is pretty much overpowered, overwhelmed by the demand for assistance,” Swing told the Observer. “I don’t want to sound pessimistic, because I am really not, I’m sure there is a way out, but I just don’t see it yet.    “I have not known any time in my half century in this business in which we have had this many simultaneous, complex and protracted crises, of no solution right now. And a lack of engagement in the resolution of them.    Speaking on the eve of the first world humanitarian summit, which has been billed as a chance to bring into focus “the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime”, Swing described a pressing need for help across an “arc of instability” from west Africa to Asia.    At present, victims of conflicts from Yemen and Syria to Afghanistan are in a grim race for limited funds to cover even basic needs such as food and shelter, Swing said. Adding to the pressure are natural disasters such as the earthquake in Nepal last year, and epidemics from Ebola to more recently Zika and yellow fever. “We have to do something about humanitarian financing, because the money is simply not there, because you simply find each crisis is competing with the other,” he said.    Even emergencies affecting hundreds of thousands of people can struggle to attract political or financial support, Swing said, citing unrest in Burundi, which shares a history of genocide with neighbouring Rwanda. “There are so many simultaneous conflicts that it’s hard to keep the donors focused on the ones that get the least attention,” he said.    In Burundi killings, abductions, torture and a failed coup attempt have sent more than a quarter of a million people flooding out of the country, often with little more than the clothes on their back, but a UN appeal to support them has so far only raised one in every $10 needed.    The gathering in Istanbul seeks to provide more support for groups from those refugees, to Ebola victims or Syrian exiles whose food rations were cut as aid funds shrank. But it has been criticized as a talking-shop by Nobel prizewinning health group Médecins Sans Frontières, which pulled out last week, saying they “no longer have any hope that Governments will address the weaknesses in humanitarian action and emergency response, particularly in conflict areas or epidemic situations”.    Médecins Sans Frontières has been particularly frustrated by flagrant disregard for laws meant to protect civilians, a concern echoed by Swing who said he fears “a certain erosion of international moral authority, in terms of respecting international humanitarian law”.    Last year 75 hospitals managed or supported by the group were attacked, from Afghanistan and South Sudan to Yemen and Syria. “The summit has become a figleaf of good intentions, allowing these systematic violations, by states above all, to be ignored,” Médecins Sans Frontières said in a statement.    Still, Swing sees some glimmer of hope in the scale of the current crisis that might perhaps force change. “I do think the timing for the Istanbul summit is good, because the context is so overwhelming at the moment.”    At the heart of many problems within the current aid system are bitter arguments about who should bear the costs of supporting people who have fled these conflicts. Syria’s neighbours are so overwhelmed by the millions of people who have sought refuge inside their borders that they are struggling even to feed some of them.    Last week Kenya announced that it would close the world’s biggest refugee camp, to protect the country’s security after a string of terror attacks by al-Shabaab, and send more than 330,000 Somalis who live there back to their war-torn homeland or on to other countries. And Europe in April effectively closed its borders to people hoping to reach the continent from Turkey.    Swing, whose organisation reaches tens of millions of migrants and refugees directly or indirectly each year, said those governments need more support but politicians worldwide also need to take a more constructive attitude to migration. “We keep trying to help everyone to understand it’s not an issue to be solved, it’s a human reality that has to be managed,” he said. “There are drivers of migration, both voluntary and forced migration, that do not seem to register with governments or wider populations.”    Even if political efforts to resolve some of the current conflicts are successful, and international groups can improve their handling of epidemics and their response to natural disasters, there is another threat looming on the horizon that will keep millions on the move.    Rising sea levels recently claimed five islands in the Pacific, and as temperatures increase the world will have to grapple with how to support climate refugees. Many may just move inside their countries, but the worst affected, in low-lying island nations, will have no country left. “We are only starting to think about what to do about it. It will be a new form of statelessness, when we physically lose the state.”    May 2016    CARE International calls on world leaders to participate in the World Humanitarian Summit and use the opportunity to improve the humanitarian system.    “It is essential for Heads of State and Government to attend the summit and make strong, detailed commitments. Otherwise statements will remain fine words on paper only”, urges Wolfgang Jamann, CARE International’s Secretary General and CEO.    “Today, we are witnessing the highest number of refugees since the Second World War. At the same time, climate change is threatening the lives of millions. In Istanbul, world leaders have the historic chance to reverse these trends and save lives. Indecision is simply no option.”    In the past two years, CARE has been heavily involved in the process leading up to the World Humanitarian Summit, aiming to influence humanitarian actors to improve the quality and quantity of humanitarian aid to people in need and political actors to reduce the demand for it. As a major humanitarian agency itself, CARE is committing to improve its very own way of delivering aid.    “Over the next four years, we will strengthen our work in conflicts, work to empower women and girls as first responders in humanitarian crises, scale up financial resources for humanitarian action, climate change and disaster risk reduction, and build the capacity of local partners, including providing direct and predictable financing”, Jamann adds.    “Given the unprecedented scale of disasters and conflicts worldwide, ‘business as usual’ is not the way to move forward. World leaders need to announce detailed initiatives and plans to end violence against civilians and protect refugees. They need to completely change the environment in which humanitarian aid is delivered.”    “CARE reached more than ten million people with humanitarian aid in 2015 alone”, Jamann says. CARE’s goal for the year 2020 is to strengthen our humanitarian work to have a greater impact for people affected by humanitarian crises, with a special focus on women and girls, who are disproportionately affected by disasters.    “In Istanbul, we want to see a strengthened political commitment and practical action to protect women and girls from violence. We want to see support to the inspiring and tireless efforts by women activists who are leading efforts to assist those in need. Their voice should be heard and their efforts bolstered.    May 2016    Put more aid dollars into local response, say global charities. (Thomson Reuters Foundation)    The chaos of emergency responses to crises such as the Syria war and Nepal earthquake could be eased by shifting more of the aid dollars to local relief groups, some of the biggest international aid charities said in a survey.    To help ease pressure on an overburdened aid system, up to 90 percent of international charities operating in Nepal after the April 2015 earthquake surveyed by the Thomson Reuters Foundation said bilateral funding from governments and U.N. agencies should go directly to national-level organisations.    Twenty-three international charities, including Oxfam and CARE, have agreed to adopt an initiative called Charter for Change, which commits them to passing on 20 percent of their humanitarian funding to national organisations.    Of the organisations responding to the survey, 60 percent of those working in Syria and around 80 percent of those active in Nepal said more than one fifth of global direct funding should go to local NGOs.    World Vision International (WVI) spokesman Steve Panton said putting local people and organisations in charge of their own aid responses was non-negotiable. "The challenge is how to get there," he said.    More than half of the organisations polled by the Thomson Reuters Foundation that are working in Nepal said collaborating with local NGOs enabled them to reach more people affected by the disaster. Two big tremors last April and May killed 9,000 people, injured more than 22,000, and damaged or destroyed more than 900,000 houses, forcing many to brave freezing temperatures in shelters made of tarpaulins and corrugated iron sheets.    In the run-up to the summit, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has made clear that governments must reform the way they handle humanitarian crises, which are taking an unprecedented toll on civilians.    The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has estimated nearly 88 million people are in need of humanitarian aid in 2016, with funding needs of around $20 billion.    "We need to be much clearer as to how do we empower local people, working more collectively, in collaboration with local NGOs and others," said OCHA chief Stephen O''Brien.    May 2016    Cash is a sophisticated way of giving people in crisis the power to make their own choices, writes Garry Conille, Under Secretary General, of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)    Recently, in a Liberian refugee camp, I met Christelle, a young mother who was recovering from the violence and insecurity in her home country of Côte d''Ivoire. In our discussions, she didn`t want to talk about her needs for shelter, psychosocial support, or the any of the humanitarian challenges I had come prepared to discuss. Instead, Christelle spoke of the unfamiliar food she had been given during an aid distribution, and the lack of options to feed her children. “My children are getting sick. I don’t know how to cook this, I need rice - please,” she said.    This encounter was a stark reminder that, in spite of many successful efforts to improve its efficiency, the international humanitarian system is still not good enough at anticipating or supporting the many different decisions and choices that individuals in crisis need to make every day.    As the world’s humanitarian needs continue to grow, so do the number of humanitarians criticising the traditional model that aid is built on. There are suggestions that the current relief system is outdated, perhaps even obsolete.    We need to do better. Is it possible for us to improve our ability to meet current and future demands, and do so in a way that both empowers people and also reduces costs and layers of bureaucracy? One possible solution gaining momentum is cold, hard cash.    Imagine if Christelle had been given money instead of bags of unfamiliar food. She could have used the cash to buy what she knew was best for her children. She would have been empowered to make her own choice.    Cash transfer programming – where people affected by disasters or crises receive direct transfer payments that can either be spent where, how, and when the recipient chooses, or are tied to specific conditions such as food or shelter - has gone through something of a revolution over the past decade. It has moved from its origins in cash-for-work schemes and vouchers to a sophisticated way of giving people the power to make their own choices about how to meet their immediate relief and recovery needs.    But it still represents just six per cent of humanitarian aid, despite the growing calls for cash to replace the costly and inefficient commodities-based approach to disaster response and relief.    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) views cash transfer as an opportunity for the humanitarian sector to reach more people, improve its own internal systems, and decrease its need for donor money.    More importantly, it is an opportunity to put disaster-affected people back in control of their own lives, and allow them to exercise the choices we all take for granted.    For example, the Canadian Red Cross will give cash transfer grants worth 50 million Canadian dollars to evacuees displaced by the Fort McMurray wildfire. Jenn McManus, vice-president of the Canadian Red Cross for Alberta, observes that “Cash transfers allow those evacuees to be empowered, to have their own assistance in their hands, and to be able to make decisions for their own emerging needs."    In Myanmar, the Myanmar Red Cross Society has given an unconditional cash grant to support 18,800 people severely affected by floods. With that money, many of the affected people were able to buy a new plot of land in a safer area and rebuild their lives.    Debates around cash are often accompanied by anxieties that cash will encourage irresponsible spending. But the evidence shows that when cash transfer programmes are well designed, concerns about abuse, corruption, diversion, misappropriation and inflation are unfounded. Cash grants are no more risky or difficult than providing goods or commodities, and the additional benefits make it a more attractive solution.    Cash transfer programming is often held to higher standards of risk management and quality assurance, with a greater focus on monitoring and evaluation. These standards are not always applied to commodities-based assistance, which is fraught with similar risks at multiple points in the supply chain.    Cash can be delivered faster than traditional relief and is often more efficient and cost-effective. Cash also reinvigorates local markets and local economies. Cash can be economically transformational in a way that assistance based on in-kind goods or commodities cannot be.    In a world where the funding gap for humanitarian action is already at an estimated 15 billion US dollars, the delivery of cash to disaster-affected communities can reach more people while decreasing the system’s need for donor money.    How will cash improve the system?    The cash transfer agenda is not just about replacing commodities with cash. It is a new way of working directly with disaster-affected populations. Cash is an equalizer, putting power in the hands of the people who need it most, and removing or reducing the role of many intermediaries in the current bureaucratic system.    Ultimately, cash transfer programming is about choice, respect and trust in addressing needs and ensuring the best long-term outcomes. It puts decision-making into the hands of people most affected by a crisis, helps to restore their dignity, and supports personal responsibility.    A shift towards cash is a shift towards recognizing that ultimately humanitarian solutions start and end with local people and local communities. Cash transfer programming is about local solutions to local challenges, giving people the resources they need to make the right choices to respond to their circumstances.    In the current system, all the financial resources and decision-making power is concentrated in a complex web of Governments and donor institutions, UN agencies and international organizations. Too few national and community-based local organizations receive too small a portion of the resources - determined in part by demanding donor-driven requirements for accountability and reporting - and too few resources for building the capacities of local civil society organizations.    The cash programming transformation supports the goals of the Grand Bargain – the humanitarian financing discussions that followed the publication of the UN High-Level Panel on Financing report, which have intensified in the lead up to the World Humanitarian Summit. These goals include reducing duplication and management costs; joining the participation revolution; providing greater support to local and national frontline responders, and expanding the use of cash transfer programmes where appropriate.    Transformational change towards cash requires strong leadership and a commitment to letting the people affected by disasters and crises make their own decisions about how best to recover and become more resilient.    To do this, the humanitarian sector, donors and implementers will need to transform their approaches to programming, and make full use of the unparalleled value for money and enhanced accountability that cash and digital payments are already delivering. Internal systems and support services will need to be realigned to support cash in operational contexts.    Multi-sectoral teams and approaches will have to be introduced to achieve collective outcomes instead of sector-based targets. It will also require greater investment in global payment and information management technologies, as this is the only way to bypass bureaucracy and put resources in the hands of local organizations and communities.    If these changes are not made, the humanitarian world will only achieve incremental increases in the use of cash transfer programming, not the transformational change that we all seek, and we all need.    For our part, the IFRC expects to significantly increase our cash-based programmes by 2020, when and where the context allows, including in recovery and resilience-building or rehabilitation programmes. We are confident that improving our work in this area will lead to a significant increase in the cost-efficiency of our operations, and enhance the quality of the support we provide.    For the humanitarian sector at large, the question is no longer whether or not to use cash in emergencies, but rather how quickly such programming can be brought to scale. 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