{"id":72,"date":"2016-05-31T08:10:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T08:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/reflections-from-the-world-humanitarian-summit\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:31:54","slug":"world-humanitarian-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/world-humanitarian-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections from the World Humanitarian Summit: The Optimist\u2019s View"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>world humanitarian summit, Istanbul, Turkey\u00a023 \u2013 24 May 2016<\/h4>\n<p>Last week I had the good fortune of attending the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, the first convening of its kind. Beyond the lovely \u2013 and slightly extravagant \u2013 opening ceremony, there was real work to be done at the summit. With the mantra, \u201c<em>Leave No One Behind<\/em>\u201d and the hashtag, #ShareHumanity, the \u2018powers that be\u2019 attempted to shift the conversation \u2013 and the mindset \u2013 within the humanitarian aid community to community engagement and local empowerment. A few significant commitments were made, especially the Grand Bargain target of 25 percent of international funds going to local NGOs by 2020, and initiatives launched, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/near.ngo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Network for Empowered Aid Response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet session after session, I waited to hear the specific commitments from UN agencies and major NGOs. They were not forthcoming. There were declarations that individual voices matter, that partnerships with local actors are important, and that we just must do something about the migration crisis. These were sound bites, written and spoken without passion. But actual financial or program commitments on a broad scale were sadly lacking.<\/p>\n<h4>But does it even matter?<\/h4>\n<p>I left feeling relieved\u00a0that I didn\u2019t fall asleep in the special sessions, but energized by the\u00a0activities and voices that I heard in other settings throughout the venue. The\u00a0shift in funding to local and national NGOs and enterprises, coupled with\u00a0exciting innovations and the involvement of for-profit socially minded\u00a0companies,<b> will necessarily change the focus to local solutions, with or without the international humanitarian leaders. Whether they survive the shift will be up to them.<\/b> I was particularly excited by three trends that permeated the summit:<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<h4>Small enterprises with big ideas.<\/h4>\n<p>Throughout the summit\u2019s Innovation Marketplace and wandering the halls, were <b>many entrepreneurs who are figuring out ways to either assist international agencies with the shift to local or simply bypass them<\/b>; it is a shame that the diplomats and agency directors who walked through the Marketplace to get to the Facebook Live booth\u00a0did not glance at the cool innovations as they passed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humansurge.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HumanSurge<\/a>, for example, allows professionals in surge capacity to manage their own careers and their own deployments, opening many more opportunities for employment. The\u00a0creators of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MedBox<\/a> focus on truly open\u00a0health content that can be shared by anyone, anywhere, not unlike our local\u00a0language Words of Relief Repository. Our fellow CDAC-Network member, <a href=\"http:\/\/groundtruthsolutions.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ground Truth Solutions<\/a>, told the\u00a0special session on People at the Centre that communicating with communities is\u00a0not just about listening, but acting on what we hear \u2013 and listening\u00a0again.<\/p>\n<h4>Bottom-up momentum.<\/h4>\n<p>While the leaders may be slow to commit to change, at the field\u00a0level the shift is clear. In our advocacy for more local language content, we\u00a0often hit roadblocks at country or international levels. There is a presumption that translation is not that important, or that bi-lingual staff can do it just fine. But field staff really understand the need and are committed to local language as a tool to communicate better with and listen to communities. Those who came by our booth at the summit were thrilled that this issue is getting more attention. Importantly, more and more, field staff in places like Kenya,\u00a0Guinea and Greece are forcing changes higher up the chain. There are also\u00a0promising pockets of change within headquarters staff, such as the exciting\u00a0work being done by UNHCR Innovation\u2019s Emergency Lab, and the ICRC\u2019s team\u00a0committed to communicating with communities. While commitments on an\u00a0international level were sparse, <b>individuals throughout the summit were committing to the paradigm shift, and that mindset will seep through the sector over time<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h4>Sustainable funding models.<\/h4>\n<p>Probably the most exciting conversations I had at the World Humanitarian Summit were those with like-minded organizations focused on non-traditional funding models. It is critical that we look beyond grant cycles to fund important initiatives and innovations that improve overall response. Many members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/h2hworks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humanitarian-to-humanitarian (H2H)<\/a> initiative launched by ACAPS, of which we are a member, are considering service funding models as a way to build infrastructure and hire staff that fit the needs of the\u00a0organization, not just the latest grant proposal. It was encouraging to get\u00a0many nods of support for our new service funding approach from a wide range of large non-profits and agencies. While institutional funding will continue to be important for organizations like ours, <b>sustainable long-term funding modeled after tech start-ups (and encouraged by such innovative funders as the\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elrha.org\/hif\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Humanitarian Innovation Fund<\/b><\/a><b>), will increase innovations<\/b> designed specifically to meet humanitarian needs, encourage competition to sort out the best ideas, and allow professionalization of small enterprises and non-profit\u00a0organizations on the local, national and international level.<\/p>\n<h4>A momentum for change<\/h4>\n<p>Over three years of consultations leading up to the summit, there were many questions as to whether any of it would matter, whether the UN and the sector could actually change to improve humanitarian response. But as those questions were being asked, change was happening all around us. There is momentum for change on local and even international levels. How it will shake out, and who will be the major players in ten years, is unknown, but I\u2019m optimistic that response will be improved, with or without today\u2019s leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the World Humanitarian Summit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhumanitariansummit.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"795\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/world-humanitarian-summit\/rebecca-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebecca-1.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rebecca\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebecca-1.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebecca-1.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-795 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebecca-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rebecca Petras\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>By Rebecca Petras, Translators without Borders Deputy Director and Head of\u00a0Innovation<\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>world humanitarian summit, Istanbul, Turkey\u00a023 \u2013 24 May 2016 Last week I had the good fortune of attending the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, the first convening of its kind. 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