MIKTA Experts Meeting on Post-World Humanitarian Summit Process and Follow-up of the Commitments (21 April 2017, Istanbul)

CHAIR’S SUM UP

Istanbul, 21 April –The Experts Meeting of Turkey’s MIKTA Chairmanship was held today in Istanbul with the participation of MIKTA countries and UN OCHA, on the post-World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) follow up process.

The participants underlined the importance of the follow up process of the Word Humanitarian Summit which was hosted by Turkey in coordination with UN in 23-24 May 2016 in Istanbul.

They also acknowledged that the Summit which addressed the challenges to the humanitarian system was a timely and comprehensive event to discuss the future of the international humanitarian system with the participation of all relevant stakeholders.

At the Summit the MIKTA countries made two joint commitments (a) to build a program of action and advocacy to support accelerated implementation of the Sendai Framework within their regions and (b) to work closely with local and national women’s groups to provide them with practical support to increase their capacity to deliver in humanitarian settings.

The participants, during the MIKTA experts meeting shared with each other their experiences and progress on these joint and related national commitments made at the WHS and they exchanged views both on the present situation on the effective fulfillment of these joint commitments and on future steps to be taken to that end, including possible joint efforts on concrete projects and areas of cooperation.

In addition to the reviewing of joint commitments, the experts also exchanged views and ideas on the general follow up of the Istanbul Summit with a view to focusing on certain areas of common interest.

The participants also explored possibilities on how to further develop current joint commitments and to expand the MIKTA engagement into other core responsibilities and processes in the future, including the possibility of making joint statements in respect of post-Summit efforts in related UN fora, such as ECOSOC.

The participants also exchanged views and information about the preparations for the 5^th Disaster Risk Reduction Global Platform to be held in Cancun, Mexico as well as the MIKTA business side event on disaster risk reduction and the WHS side event.