Strengthening of the coordination of emergency
humanitarian assistance of the United Nations
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Nations policy of zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse and stresses that
victims and survivors should be at the core of such efforts, notes the six core
principles relating to sexual exploitation and abuse adopted by the Inter-Agency
Standing Committee, 11 and encourages Member States to make greater efforts to
prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse and to ensure that perpetrators
are held accountable;
17. Urges Member States to continue to seek to prevent, respond to,
investigate and prosecute violations and abuses against children, including
exploitation, in humanitarian emergencies, calls upon Member States and relevant
organizations to strengthen support services for children affected by humanitarian
emergencies, including those who have experienced violations and abuses, and calls
for a more effective response in that regard, guided by the rights of the child;
18. Reaffirms the importance of implementing the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 3 to ensure the substantial reduction of disaster
risk and losses in lives, livelihood and health and in the e conomic, physical, social,
cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries,
and underlines the importance of tackling the underlying disaster risk drivers, of
considering the impact of climate change and of integrating a disaster risk reduction
perspective into humanitarian assistance to prevent new and reduce existing
disaster risk;
19. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations and relevant humanitarian
and development organizations to continue to support multi -year investment, when
possible, in preparedness, response and coordination capacities, and build the
capacity at all levels of government, including local government, of organizations and
of communities, particularly in communities exposed to disasters, to bett er prepare
for hazards, reduce disaster risk and the risk of displacement within the context of
disasters, build resilience and better respond to and recover from and build back better
after disasters, and also calls upon all relevant stakeholders to compl ement, rather
than substitute for or displace, national capacities to respond to crises, especially
where those crises are prolonged or recurrent;
20. Calls upon Member States and the international community to provide
adequate, sustainable and timely resources for disaster risk reduction in order to build
resilience and reduce the risk of displacement within the context of disasters,
environmental degradation and climate change, including through complementary
humanitarian and development programming and the further strengthening of national
and local capacities to prevent, prepare for and respond to humanitarian emergencies,
and encourages closer cooperation between national stakeholders and humanitarian
and development actors in this regard;
21. Urges Member States, the United Nations humanitarian system, regional
organizations, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other
humanitarian actors to reinforce preparedness and response capabilities in relation to
those outbreaks of infectious disease that trigger or exacerbate a humanitarian crisis,
including by fully implementing the International Health Regulations (2005), 7 and
calls upon the United Nations humanitarian system and humanitarian organizations
to respond rapidly, based on the level 3 activation procedure for infectious disease
events in humanitarian contexts, in close coordination with affected States;
22. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations and other relevant
organizations, as appropriate, to address non-communicable diseases and their risk
factors and to treat people living with them in humanitarian emergencies;
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