Humanitarian Challenges: Perspectives from the South and Islamic countries

This paper highlights some of the current and future challenges facing the humanitarian community and provides a perspective from the South and Islamic countries.

This paper was used as a source for synthesised recommendations used in the Briefing Papers for the Global Forum on Improving Humanitarian Action, taking place in New York on 4/5 June 2015.

The Briefing Papers are intended to provide a general background to the key obstacles that inhibit good, effective humanitarian action, and the recommendations that have been put forward around the WHS process to address these obstacles.