International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in
the field of natural disasters, from relief to development
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Fund to implementing partners in order to ensure that resources are used in the most
efficient, effective, accountable and transparent manner possible;
83. Calls upon all Member States, and invites the private sector and all
concerned individuals and institutions, to consider increasing their voluntary
contributions to the Central Emergency Response Fund in order to achieve an annual
funding level of 1 billion United States dollars, and to continue to reinforce and
strengthen the Fund as the global emergency response fund, and emphasizes that
contributions should be additional to current commitments to humanitarian
programming and should not be to the detriment of resources made available for
international cooperation for development;
84. Invites Member States, the private sector and all other relevant
stakeholders to harness their differentiated skills, capacities and resources, and also
to consider voluntary contributions to humanitarian funding mechanisms;
85. Strongly encourages giving appropriate consideration to disaster risk
reduction, including preparedness, and the building of resilience to disasters as integral
elements of sustainable development and in the implementation of the 2030 Agen da for
Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International
Conference on Financing for Development 14 and promoting a complementary and
coherent approach between those Agendas and the Sendai Framework;
86. Strongly encourages all relevant actors to work to ensure a comprehensive,
coherent, systematic and people-centred approach to managing risks, including
through, as appropriate, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sendai
Framework, the Paris Agreement 3 and the New Urban Agenda;
87. Takes note of the World Humanitarian Summit, held in Istanbul, Turkey,
on 23 and 24 May 2016, and of the report of the Secretary-General on the outcome of
the World Humanitarian Summit; 15
88. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to improve the international
response to natural disasters and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its
seventy-fifth session and to include in his report recommendations on how to ensure
that humanitarian assistance is provided in ways supportive of the transition from
relief to development.
49th plenary meeting
16 December 2019
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