Strengthening of the coordination of emergency
humanitarian assistance of the United Nations
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Principles and Good Practice of Humanitarian Donorship 12 and to improve burdensharing among donors, and in this respect encourages the private sector, civil society
and other relevant entities to make relevant contributions, complementary to those of
other sources;
53. Welcomes the important achievements of the Central Emergency Response
Fund in ensuring a more timely and predictable response to humanitarian
emergencies, stresses the importance of continuing to improve the functioning of the
Fund, and in this regard encourages the United Nations funds and prog rammes and
the specialized agencies to review and evaluate, where necessary, their partnership
policies and practices in order to ensure the timely disbursement of funds from the
Fund to implementing partners in order to ensure that resources are used in t he most
efficient, effective, accountable and transparent manner possible;
54. 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 the need
to broaden and diversify the income base of the Fund and 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;
55. Encourages Member States, the private sector and all relevant individuals
and institutions to consider increasing their voluntary contributions to country -based
pooled funds and, as appropriate, other pooled funding mechanisms, to facilitate
humanitarian assistance to people in need;
56. Calls upon Member States that are in a position to do so and development
and humanitarian partners, in their efforts to provide flexible resources, to consider
ways of better mainstreaming the need for preparedness and building resilience in the
provision of humanitarian and development assistance, including reconstruction and
rehabilitation, inter alia, with a view to ensuring smooth transition from relief to
development;
57. Calls upon all Member States that are in a position to do so to increase
their voluntary contributions to humanitarian emergencies, including through
flexible, unearmarked and multi-year funding where possible, in this context
reiterates that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs should benefit
from adequate and more predictable funding, and underscores the importance of
adequate, timely and flexible voluntary funding for the Office to enable it to carry out
its mandate;
58. Encourages Member States, in cooperation with relevant United Nations
humanitarian organizations, to ensure that the basic humanitarian needs of affected
populations, including clean water, food, shelter, health, including sexual and
reproductive health, education and protection, energy and information and
communications technologies, where possible, are addressed as components of
humanitarian response, including through providing timely and adequate resources,
while ensuring that their collaborative efforts fully adhere to humanitarian principles;
59. Also encourages Member States, in cooperation with relevant United
Nations humanitarian organizations, to ensure that women and girls have access to
basic health-care services, including reliable and safe access to sexual and
reproductive health-care services and mental health and psychosocial support, from
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