Together We Stand

[ 11 ] ian targets and areas. It means stepping up our cooperation to end the scourge of gender-based violence. It also means committing to national and international justice and ending impunity, and for leaders at all levels — the United Nations, humanitarian organizations and civil society — to speak out on violations and systematically condemn them. Core responsibility 3: Leave no one behind In 2015, the international community achieved a historic victory by committing to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which pledged to leave no one behind. In “One Humanity, Shared responsibility,” the Secretary- General states that delivering on this promise requires reaching everyone in situations of conflict, disasters, vulnerability and risk. We cannot achieve our develop- ment goals without addressing humanitarian crises; and the better we address these crises, the more resources we will be able to collectively devote to long-term activities including mitigating the impacts of climate change. In particular, the Secretary-General calls for global and local action to reduce and address internal displacement; share responsibility for addressing large-scale movements of refugees; end statelessness; empower and protect women and girls; eliminate gaps in education for children affected by crises; and empower young people to be agents of posi- tive transformation. Core responsibility 4: Change people’s lives — From delivering aid to ending need With the 2030 Agenda as the world’s common framework for the next 15 years, the international community as a whole must shift its approach in protracted humanitarian crises from simply delivering aid, to also include working with partners to end need in the long run. This requires three fundamental shifts. First, both international and national actors must do more to reinforce local and national systems, and to put people’s resilience at the centre of our efforts. Second, we must invest more in data and risk analy- sis, including early warning systems, and put in place the mechanisms to enable us to act on them, instead of waiting for crises to erupt before triggering a response. Third, we must turn twenty years of talk into action and bridge the humanitarian-development divide. This means that in longer-term crises, humanitarian and development actors must work together to achieve collective outcomes, based on comparative advantage and over multi-year timeframes. T ogether W e S tand Image: UNHCR/F.Noy The people in this column in Benghazi, including migrant workers and possibly refugees, want to enter Egypt to escape the fighting in Libya