A new report offers solutions to the growing gap between humanitarian needs and available resources - but can they be put into practice?The aptly titled report,Too important to fail from the tall Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing was launched in Dubai yesterday. Does it offer viable solutions to the widening gap between humanitarian needs and available resources? Is the “grand bargain” it offers enough to convert a struggling aid system?All eyes are on humanitarian financing in 2016. The World Humanitarian Summit in May is swiftly approaching and the launch of the report comes against a backdrop of the displacement of millions of people in Syria, Yemen, and South Sudan,Iraq and other disaster and clash-affected countries. Their suffering reminds us of the need to get this proper swiftly.
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Source: theguardian.com