1 st Riyadh International
Humanitarian Forum 2018

20
Session
32
Speaker
1500
Recommendations
4
Recommendations

About The Forum 2018

The 1st Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum is an unprecedented opportunity to drive meaningful, relevant and practical change in humanitarian work to reflect on what is most needed in this area. The Forum will draw upon the combined experience of individuals and organizations involved in humanitarian work across the globe. Speakers and sessions will address key issues in humanitarian planning and delivery, and will encourage participants to develop new strategies for reaching the greatest possible number of people in need.

  • Promoting and endorsing the best standards of humanitarian action
    Developing the best practices further to reflect the current humanitarian realities
    Enhancing mechanisms to cope with the changing humanitarian landscape

  • Decision-makers in the international and national humanitarian community
    INGOs and NGOs
    International and national agencies
    Academicians and researchers specialized in the relief and humanitarian field

  • Humanitarian Assistance
    Bridging the humanitarian aid/development nexus
    Policy development in an ever-changing operational context
    Examining global health conditions and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    Innovations and Reform of the Humanitarian Sector
    The role of non-traditional donors and regional organizations
    Reform of the humanitarian system, World Humanitarian Summit outcomes, and taking stock
    Innovations and technology

    Localizing Aid
    Local organizations, capacity-building, and empowerment
    The capacity of host countries and communities
    Adapting world agendas and initiatives to a local level

    Capacity of Humanitarian Funding
    The gaps, challenges, responsibilities and opportunities in humanitarian funding
    Social finance: challenges, opportunities and lessons learned
    Burden-sharing and fair-share theory

  • The outcomes of the sessions will be presented to the Forum participants in a report and in an overarching Communique which will summarize the findings and recommendations coming out of the various sessions, providing participants with principles to endorse and commit to implementing as a means of driving action based on the themes

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Statistics

20

Session

32

Speaker

1500

Recommendations

4

Recommendations

Recommendations

Humanitarian Assistance

The forum recommended seeking long-term solutions to conflicts to alleviate the continued suffering of millions of people living in conflict areas. The forum urged all political actors to respect human rights, humanitarian principles, and to provide an unimpeded access for all humanitarian aid providers to deliver live-saving assistance. The forum supported measures for more inclusive humanitarian coordination mechanisms, including non-traditional donors, regional organizations, and local actors. The forum emphasized the need to bridge the current humanitarian-development gap through a focus on strengthening conceptual and practical institutional linkages between humanitarian assistance and development.

Humanitarian Financing and Capacities

The forum supported long-term approaches to humanitarian needs through multi-year funding that promotes sustainable impact across the humanitarian-development nexus. The forum encouraged all donors to actively use the Financial Tracking Service (FTS) to register their contributions to ensure transparency that would help decision-making in allocating resources in addition to adopting a more gender-inclusive policy to empower more women to contribute in the humanitarian field.

Innovation and Reform in the Humanitarian Sector

The forum recommended investing globally in innovative approaches and support research initiatives to tackle the growing humanitarian challenges and ensure efficient and effective humanitarian response. The forum recommended commitment to strengthening resilience and global preparedness to prevent the breakdown of livelihood, improve quality of life, provide quick response, and reduce levels of humanitarian needs over time. 

The forum recommended encouraging innovations from the public and private sector in aid delivery mechanisms and support the introduction of new approaches which reduce operational costs and increase effectiveness.

Localizing of aid and prioritizing humanitarian local context-awareness

The forum's recommendations included existing systems of resilience to address the actual needs of crisis-affected communities. The forum recommended recognition and respect of the perspectives and knowledge of local communities on how to efficiently design and deliver humanitarian aid. The forum recommended enhancing local response capacities by increasing financial and technical support to first responders. 

The forum recommended promoting humanitarian action through a harmonious approach among local, national, and international actors.

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