Financing study commissioned for humanitarian summit in May urges current fundraising initiatives,improved efficiency and a focus on conflict preventionThe world’s overstretched humanitarian system needs substantial reform, current sources of funding and greater efficiency to safeguard a global public great simply “too well-known to fail”, or a current study says.
Nine experts appointed by the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon produced the report on humanitarian financing to inform talks at May’s world humanitarian summit. Officials at the meeting will be tasked with devising ways to reinvigorate the aid system in a time of unprecedented displacement caused by multiple man-made and natural disasters.
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Source: theguardian.com