世界人道主义峰会与会国名单 汇集177个成员国代表
News Analysis: World humanitarian summit ends with high hopes
ISTANBUL , May 24, 2016 (Xinhua) -- The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attends a press conference prior to the closing ceremony of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, May 24, 2016. (Xinhua/Zhao Dingzhe)
by Zeynep Cermen
ISTANBUL, May 24 (Xinhua) -- "We are one humanity with a shared responsibility," the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit ended here on Tuesday with these words of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
"We are here to shape a different future," Ban said. "Let us resolve here and now not only to keep people alive, but to give people a chance at a life in dignity."
The summit has brought together more than 5,000 delegates from 177 member states, including 65 heads of governments for the first time in UN history to re-design the current humanitarian system.
The system has long been proved to be inadequate to address the increasing demand for humanitarian aid for about 130 million displaced people amid hundreds killed in a recent earthquake in Ecuador, thousands more had been fleeing from bombings and war atrocities in Syria and millions facing hunger in southern Africa.
During the two-day summit, participants tried to develop new methods to the system in five core responsibility domains: Conflict prevention, protection of civilians, leaving no one behind, ending the need for humanitarian aid and investing in humanity.
Ban mostly pressed the world leaders to show a political will of a scale and scope not seen in recent years to prevent wars and save the generations.
The leaders basically admitted that the governments failed to turn promises into action from the borders of Syria to the shores of the Mediterranean so far, and the current humanitarian system is not working anymore.
For the first time the world leaders, to prevent conflicts, are determined to focus on the root causes and try to better analyze economic, social and cultural factors while paying more attention to the conflict resolution in the post-conflict sphere.
Andrea Jamburini, the CEO of "Action against Hunger," expressed his optimism that the summit will create profound changes on the humanitarian aid system.
"We not only call on related actors to uphold international humanitarian law, but we also commit ourselves to certain actions to make sure the future will be better for civilians caught in conflict and humanitarian workers," he said.
The head of International committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer also noted that the summit could build a momentum of peer pressure and have a snow ball effect.
"The Grand Bargain is a good example of peer pressure -- you come to this summit and you commit to the improvement, effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian assistance work and this is a positive step in the right direction," he said.
The Grand Bargain, a package of 51 measures, aims to make the humanitarian aid system more efficient by delivering increasingly flexible and more localized aid in a collaborative way. The UN claimed it would save 1 billion dollar a year.
During the summit, 30 donors and aid agencies signed up to the Grand Bargain.
"This was boosted by individual country commitments to give more aid to those in need," said Ria Voorhaar, the director of Global Strategic Communications Council to Xinhua.
She noted that Belgium was committed to give 25 percent of its funding to local and national groups by 2020, while Switzerland will ensure 50 percent of its official development assistance to states in fragile situations.
The NGOs have long been arguing that "empowering of local communities" would be a better way to cope with humanitarian crises. Their complaints mostly concentrated on the involvement of the intermediary organizations and the high overheads.
"I think the message of national NGOs working in the field has been heard as they seemed very committed to pushing the international community to change the overall system," Erdem Vardar, the head of Turkish NGO "Yuva", told Xinhua.
In the current system, only less than two percent of the total funding goes to local actors, who are in direct contact with the effected people.
Now the UN aims to increase the rate to 20 to 30 percent by 2020 with the help of Grand Bargain.
However, absence of key leaders of G7 countries created a wave of disappointment among participants. Both Ban and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that it is "disappointing" that most G7 leaders failed to show up at the summit.
According to Veysel Ayhan, expert on Syria and Iraq and head of International Middle East Peace Research Center based in Istanbul, the summit has just opened the door to the close inspection of the current system.
"We do not expect the summit to eradicate the current humanitarian crisis once and for all," he told Xinhua, stressing that the crisis is too serious and "day by day the international institutions are falling short of creating a workable support system in the face of such a big crisis."
He urged the UN to develop a more transparent system, which would be open to the audit by third parties.
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新闻分析:世界人道主义首脑会议结束与希望
伊斯坦布尔,5月24日(新华)--“我们是一个与人类共同的责任,“首届世界人道主义峰会结束上星期二在这里说这些话,联合国秘书长潘基文。
“我们是在这里塑造一个不同的未来,”潘基文说。让我们在这里解决,现在不仅是为了让人们活着,但给人一个机会,在一个生命的尊严。”
首脑会议汇集了来自177个成员国的5000多名代表,其中包括联合国历史上第一次在联合国重新设计目前人道主义制度的65个国家元首。
该系统已被证明是不够的,以解决在最近发生的地震在厄瓜多尔数百人死亡的人道主义援助的需求不断增加,数千人逃离爆炸和战争的暴行在叙利亚和数以百万计的人面临饥饿在南部非洲。
在为期两天的首脑会议期间,与会者试图开发新的方法,在五个核心责任域:预防冲突,保护平民,不留下任何人,结束了人道主义援助和投资于人类的需要。
禁令大多是压制世界领导人,以显示一个政治意志的规模和范围,而不是看到在最近几年,以防止战争,并保存几代。
各国领导人基本上承认,各国政府未能将承诺从叙利亚的边界到地中海沿岸,目前的人道主义制度已经不工作了。
为了防止冲突,世界各国领导人第一次决心把重点放在根源上,并试图更好地分析经济、社会和文化因素,同时更加关注冲突后领域的冲突解决。
安德列jamburini,“反饥饿行动的首席执行官,“表达了他的乐观,峰会将会在人道主义援助体系的深刻变化。
他说:“我们不仅呼吁有关的行动者支持国际人道主义法,但我们也致力于某些行动,以确保未来将更好地为冲突和人道主义工作者陷入冲突的平民”。
红十字国际委员会主任毛瑞尔还指出,这次峰会可以建立一个同伴的压力,并有一个雪球效应。
“大的交易是一个很好的例子,你来到这个峰会和你承诺的改善,效率和效率的人道主义援助工作,这是一个正确的方向,在正确的方向,”他说。
大交易,一揽子51项措施,旨在使人道主义援助系统更有效地提供越来越灵活和更本地化的援助,以合作的方式。联合国声称它将节省10亿美元一年。
在峰会期间,30名捐助者和援助机构签署了大交易。
“这是由于个别国家承诺向需要的人提供更多援助佛哈尔说,”RIA,全球战略通信委员会新华董事。
她指出,比利时承诺将百分之25的资金给地方和国家集团的2020,而瑞士将确保其官方发展援助的百分之50,在脆弱的情况下。
长期以来,非政府组织一直在争论,“赋予当地社区权力”是应对人道主义危机的一个更好的办法。他们的抱怨大多集中在中介组织的参与和管理费用高。
“我认为在这个领域工作的国家非政府组织的消息已经听到他们似乎非常致力于推动国际社会变化的整体系统,”埃德姆瓦德,土耳其非政府组织“青年”的头,告诉新华。
在现行的制度中,只有不到百分之二的资金投入到当地的演员,谁是直接接触的影响人。
现在联合国的目标是在大交易的帮助下,增加20到百分之30的速度提高到2020。
然而,G7国家主要领导人的情况下创建的参与者失望波。BAN和土耳其总统多安告诉记者,这是“令人失望”,G7领导人未能出席峰会。
据总部设在伊斯坦布尔的Veysel项,在叙利亚、伊拉克和国际中东和平研究中心主任专家,峰会刚刚打开门,当前系统的仔细检查。
“我们不希望峰会能消除当前的人道主义危机,”他告诉新华,强调这场危机太严重了,“国际机构在面临这样大的危机时,缺乏创造一个可行的支持系统”。
他敦促联合国开发一个更透明的系统,这将由第三方审核。
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