Transcript 2010 Communications Planning Meetings

HD/IDRL
HD/IDRL
Workshop
Workshop
Maldives 2011
Maldives 2011
Better Laws: Stronger Humanitarian Action
Training Workshop on strengthening disaster laws and
humanitarian action
Strategy 2020 & Humanitarian Diplomacy
Razmi Farook
11th-12th October 2011, Maldives
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WHO WE ARE
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Our changing world: trends 2020
Globalization
Humanitarian and
development system
International order
Migration
Climate change
Disaster trends
Violence
Health trends
Science and technology
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Demographic changes
Economic uncertainty
Communities
Volunteering
Women as a force
for change
Urbanisation
Faith and culture
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Poverty and poor governance lie at the root of vulnerability to
emergencies and disasters
South Asia, has around 1/4 of the world’s population and
continuing high levels of poverty & is also prone high risks of
severe or catastrophic environmental hazards
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Vision 2020
To inspire, encourage, facilitate, and
promote at all times all forms of
humanitarian activities by National
Societies, with a view to preventing
and alleviating human suffering,
and thereby contributing to the
maintenance and promotion of
human dignity and peace in the
world.
(Article 4, IFRC
Constitution)
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Vision 2020
Strategic Aim 1
Save lives, protect
livelihoods, and
strengthen recovery
from disasters and
crises
Strategic Aim 2
Strategic Aim 3
Enable healthy
and safe living
Promote social
inclusion and a culture
of non-violence and
peace
Enabling Action 2
Pursue humanitarian diplomacy to prevent and
reduce vulnerability in a globalized world
Enabling Action 3
Function effectively as the IFRC
Enabling Action 1
Build strong National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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South Asia
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What are the priority issues we should be
tackling?
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What can the IFRC/NS and their Governments
be doing about it?
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Share experiences/identify opportunities?
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What can NSs/Govts be doing to prepare for
the International Conference?
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Humanitarian Diplomacy is
persuading opinion leaders and
decision makers, to act at all
times, in the interest of
vulnerable people and with full
respect for the fundamental
principles
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The Responsibility to Persuade
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Humanity
Independence
Unique standing in International Law
Millions of volunteers mobilised across the globe
Breath of humanitarian actors
Privileged access we enjoy as auxiliaries to public
authorities in the humanitarian field
Strong confidential diplomacy
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What can governments do to support their
National Society?
Govt reps have a vital role to
play to ensure the RCRC can
fulfill its mandate granted to it
by States under international
law and resolutions from the
international conference.
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What can government representatives do to
strengthen and support their National Society?
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Legal Recognition
Emblem usage
Harness expertise and understand capacity to
respond to emergencies and disasters
Support an IHL committee
Build a Red Cross/Red Crescent Parliamentary
Friends group
Understand and Implement the resolutions and
pledges from the International Conferences
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Overall Objectives
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Build positive relationship between NSs and
their Govts
Create a safe space to discuss, share
information and identify opportunities to
collaborate
Using resolutions at the International
Conference to give prominence to global HD
Priorities particularly IDRL
Use IDRL as an entry point to other HD
interventions
Disaster Management, Health, Migration,
Gender
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