It can enlist men and boys in building acceptance of new social norms, such as around women’s inherent rights and the peaceful resolution of differences.
for long-term development. Development that benefits all, enabling everyone to enjoy their rights, including reproductive rights, can help individuals, institutions and communities withstand crisis. It can also help accelerate recovery. Equitable, inclusive and rights-based development, and the resilience fostered by it, can in many cases obviate the need for humanitarian interventions. As the globally agreedEffective Agenda 2030 for sustainable development response begins, and the World Humanitarian Summit approaches in 2016, now is the time to act on this understanding and re-envision humanitarian action, with the health and rights of women and girls at its core.
Tear down the artificial divide between humanitarian action and development
The surfeit of crisis and upheaval around the world today demands that we do much better. We need better development, better humanitarian action, better risk management, better attention to prevention, preparedness and resilience, and better connections among all of these. Running through them is a common thread: gender and all other forms of equality, achieved in part through full realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights, leads to far less vulnerability and much greater resilience for individuals and societies as a whole. The distinction between humanitarian response and development today is a false one. Humanitarian action can lay the foundations
Recovery
Equitable, inclusive development
Prevention and preparedness
A NEW VISION FOR HUMANITARIAN ACTION
Prevention and preparedness
Effective response
Resilience
SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS
Equitable, inclusive development
At the core of the interrelated elements of humanitarian action, from response to resilience and development, are sexual and reproductive health and rights
Recovery THE STATE OF WORLD POPULATION 2015
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