KSrelief Supervisor General Participates in Soaring Humanitarian Needs and Limited Resources Session at the European Humanitarian Forum
The 2nd European Humanitarian Forum, which will be held in Brussels between March 20 and 22, yesterday hosted a scientific session titled Soaring humanitarian needs and limited resources: Engaging emerging donors and new sources of funding in which Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center KSrelief Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah took part.
Al Rabeeah stressed the importance of expanding the donor base for global humanitarian action, as it remains very limited, noting that a small number of donors finance more than 80% of humanitarian operations around the world. He said that it is important to expand that base to reduce the cost for donors, and urged countries with high potential and the private sector to finance global humanitarian action because of the growing needs.
The supervisor general recalled the generous directive of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to involve the private sector in funding humanitarian work around the world, and asked the centre to launch several popular campaigns in response to emergency humanitarian crises, noting that the centre supports international humanitarian action and UN institutions and provides the majority of its international funding through UN agencies.
The centre also supported the response to the COVID 19 pandemic around the world by providing vaccines, medical devices, medicines and intensive care units, as well as financial support. Al Rabeeah also stressed the importance of encouraging countries and donors to provide in-kind and financial resources to achieve integration in humanitarian action.
He said that the Kingdom is active in contacting donors and mobilising their support for OCHA, as well as being an active member of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian AffairsUnited Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA, where Saudi Arabia chairs the donor group for the 2022 -- 2023 session. The Kingdom is working with the donor group to expand the donor base, support OCHA initiatives and work, address humanitarian problems and crises, and provide solutions through the donor group.