A/RES/74/115
International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in
the field of natural disasters, from relief to development
67. Requests the United Nations humanitarian and development organizations
to improve their coordination of disaster recovery efforts, from relief to development,
inter alia, by strengthening institutional, coordination and strategic planning efforts
in disaster preparedness, resilience-building and recovery, in support of national
authorities, and by ensuring that development actors participate in strategic planning
at an early stage;
68. Encourages the United Nations and humanitarian and development
organizations to support national, subnational and local governments and
communities in their responsibility to develop long-term strategies, forecast-based
financing and preparedness systems and multi-year operational plans for preparedness
that are embedded within disaster risk reduction and resilience strategies in line with
the Sendai Framework;
69. Calls upon the United Nations system and other humanitarian actors to
improve the dissemination of tools and services to support enhanced disaster risk
reduction, in particular preparedness, early action, rapid response and early recovery;
70. Calls upon relevant United Nations humanitarian and development
organizations, in consultation with Member States, to strengthen tools and
mechanisms to ensure that early recovery needs and support are integrated into the
planning and implementation of disaster preparedness, humanitarian response and
development cooperation activities, as appropriate;
71. Encourages the United Nations system and humanitarian organizations to
continue their efforts to mainstream early recovery into humanitarian programming,
acknowledges that early recovery is an important step towards resilience -building and
should receive further funding, and encourages the provision of timely, flexible and
predictable funding for early recovery, including through established and
complementary humanitarian and development instruments;
72. Urges Member States, the United Nations and humanitarian and
development organizations to prioritize risk management and shift towards an
anticipatory approach to humanitarian crises in order to prevent and reduce human
suffering and economic losses;
73. Urges Member States, humanitarian and development organizations and
other stakeholders to ensure a comprehensive and coherent approach at the global,
regional, national and local levels to El Niño and La Niña phenomena and similar or
related events, including by strengthening forecasting, early warning and ea rly action,
prevention, preparedness, resilience-building and timely response, supported by
effective leadership and predictable, adequate and early funding, when feasible, in
regions, countries and communities likely to be affected, and notes the work of the
Special Envoys of the Secretary-General on El Niño and Climate and the blueprint for
action prepared by them, and the standard operating procedures for El Niño/Southern
Oscillation events of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee;
74. Encourages Member States and the United Nations to enhance the use of
common risk analysis, including the use of the Index for Risk Management, to establish
the evidence base for short-, medium- and long-term planning and joint strategies for
disaster and climate risk management, capacity development and resilience-building,
allowing for greater prioritization of resources where the risk is greatest;
75. Encourages the United Nations and humanitarian and development
organizations to work towards a common understanding of underlying risks, clarify
roles and responsibilities according to their respective mandates and establish joint
objectives and programmes informed by affected people, data and analysis to
strengthen coordination, collaboration and coherence among short-, medium- and longterm activities to progressively reduce needs and vulnerability, build resilience and
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