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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency
humanitarian assistance of the United Nations
of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs and other partners;
32. Encourages States to create an enabling environment for the capacitybuilding of local authorities and of national and local non-governmental and
community-based organizations in order to ensure better preparedness in providing
timely, effective and predictable assistance, and encourages the United Nations and
other relevant organizations to provide support to such efforts, including, as
appropriate, under the Common Framework for Preparedness of the Inter-Agency
Standing Committee, the United Nations Sustainable Development Group and the
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, through the transfer of technology, on
mutually agreed terms, and expertise to developing co untries and through support to
enhance the coordination capacities and build capacity in science and technology of
affected States;
33. Recognizes the increase in the number and scale of disasters, including
those related to the adverse effects of climate change, which in certain instances may
contribute to displacement and to additional pressure on host communities,
encourages Member States, the United Nations and relevant organizations and actors
to further strengthen the efforts aimed at addressing the needs of persons displaced
within the context of disasters, including those induced by climate change, and notes
in this regard the importance of sharing best practices to prevent and prepare for such
displacements;
34. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations and humanitarian
organizations to provide emergency assistance in ways that are supportive of recovery
and long-term development, where appropriate, including through multi -year funding
and prioritizing humanitarian tools that strengthen resilien ce, such as, but not limited
to, cash-based transfers, local procurement of food and services, including for school
feeding programmes, and social safety nets;
35. Encourages Member States and the United Nations funds and programmes
and the specialized agencies to respond more effectively to needs in humanitarian
contexts by, inter alia, scaling up social protection policies and cash -based transfer
mechanisms, where feasible, including multipurpose cash programming, as
appropriate, to offer affected people flexibility on how to meet their humanitarian
needs, and to support the development of local markets and strengthen national and
local capacities, and in this regard calls upon the United Nations humanitarian
organizations to continue building their capacity to systematically consider cashbased transfer programming, alongside other forms of humanitarian assistance;
36. Encourages Member States, the United Nations system and other relevant
organizations to improve, where possible, fast and flexible financ ing for
preparedness, early action, early response and early recovery, and in this regard
encourages exploring, developing and, where appropriate, the strengthening of
innovative and anticipatory mechanisms and approaches, such as forecast -based
financing and disaster risk insurance, to reduce the impact of disasters and address
humanitarian needs;
37. Takes note of the efforts of Member States, the United Nations system and
the international community to strengthen preparedness and local, national and
regional humanitarian response capacity, calls upon the United Nations and relevant
partners to support capacity-building of Member States, and calls upon Member
States to continue to provide funding to humanitarian country-based pooled funds;
38. Encourages Member States, and calls upon relevant humanitarian
organizations, to work closely with national institutions, including local governments
and the private sector, as appropriate, to examine effective, context -specific ways to
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