It is the first time ever that we have the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
actually
Organizing or setting up a calling for World Humanitarian Summit. The title of that summit is One Humanity
Shared Responsibility. My question to each of you. What does that title mean to you and your organization?
We do sense there's a need for you know a major
recommitment especially of states around some of the basic
you know basic principles and commitments they've taken and
I think shared responsibility this there's a responsibility of humanitarian actors to be effective
for populations and there's a responsibility of states to to uphold what they have committed to several times
I think the initial vision was really to make sure that with all the challenges we face in the world today
It's not one actor that's actually going to be responsible for solving the problems and therefore
You know it was set out as a multi-stakeholder process to make sure that one humanity shared responsibility
Which by the way is a new tagline
You know the shared responsibility is for everyone
We just look at the headlines look at the newspapers. It is very clear why why we need this
World Humanitarian Summit and why the Secretary General's initiative was really very timely. Jamila
What would you like the summit to fix from the eye for see point of view?
First of all, you know my biggest fear is we we say people at the center
We don't really know what we're talking about
Because it can be quite cliched that really brings into question
You know, are we really meeting the needs of people what they really want?
Are we really putting people at the center? It's a big question. We need to ask ourselves
It's about principle to mention an action. Do we walk the talk? So I think that's a big question mark
I think we need to re-examine if anything I hope the conscience of humanitarian actors
That actually the perception of humanitarian action is not what we think it is
People who we are supposed to put at the center don't really think they're at the center
If there is only one key concern that you need to say this you need to fix because otherwise
My staff won't be able to work any longer. Which one it is?
We need states to reaffirm that you know the doctor of your enemy is not your enemy
We hear a lot of narrative by states that our security
Focused if you look at the headlines everything is is focused on security issues of states
how do you change the narrative of state and
and link it to this humanitarian principles and I'm asking this to the representative of state here I
described the humanitarian crisis as a
Cruiser floating in the ocean full of affected people
with no captain and
Every stakeholder with its with his or her own remote control
Trying to have the cruiser in a port they would like to see what we need to see at the end of the summits
We should leave those leave all those
remote controls and
We should get on the get on board
for me
The summit itself is not the end point. I think it is it is not even the
Climax I think the most important thing is what happens afterwards to make sure that we do
You know see results happening. I
Think what we have seen this evening here
In terms of expectations that people have for the vote you may turn summit is both a very concrete call to action
That the commitments that will be made in Istanbul will not just be hollow words
We'll actually will be really a number of things that people will actually do and follow up
And both in fact also a number of voices that illustrate the diversity of humanitarian action raising very different issues from health
even
Questions around
Nuclear incidents and how that would affect health to questions around the use of humanitarian data to actually some perhaps of what I would call
The key issues are particularly around the behavior of states when it comes to upholding humanitarian norm
So it's a very broad agenda that will be discussed discussed in Istanbul, which is understandable
But at the same time we hope particularly we as here Geneva. I hope that there will be some focus
