The Secretary-General’s Five-Year Action Agenda prioritizes strengthening humanitarian aid and promoting a “global declaration and agenda on humanitarian aid transparency and effectiveness.” He has also set out the goal of convening a World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in 2015. OCHA has begun a consultative process to determine what such a global declaration and agenda would entail, and to generate ideas on how a Humanitarian Summit might contribute to more effective humanitarian action. On 21 March, OCHA held a consultative workshop that brought together leading humanitarian thinkers and experts for a discussion on humanitarian effectiveness in order to: Discuss how the humanitarian system defines/should define “effectiveness” and its component parts; Identify the gaps and changes needed to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian action and systems; Define the scope and methodology for research on humanitarian effectiveness in 2013- 2014; and Identify possible outcomes on humanitarian effectiveness for the World Humanitarian Summit.