The Summit will be held in Istanbul on 23 and 24 May 2016 and will bring together governments, humanitarian organizations, people affected by humanitarian crises and new partners including the private sector to propose solutions to our most pressing challenges and set an agenda to keep humanitarian action fit for the future. The United Nations Secretary-General (SG) has requested the summit in order to improve the capacity of the humanitarian system to serve people in need. The key objectives of the Global Consultation were to lay the basis for a successful World Humani- tarian Summit by bringing together different stakeholders to broaden support for the findings of the Synthesis Report, to discuss and refine the proposals outlined in the report and to capture additional ideas. The session also provided an opportunity for Member State representatives to deliver statements on the World Humanitarian Summit, with particular focus on their views on the substantive proposals emerging from the consultations to date as distilled in the Synthesis Report. Possibilities include new partnerships that strengthen humanitarian response, innovative ways to coordinate work and provide assistance and proposals to build on the guiding principles that shape humanitarian action (while maintaining the fundamental principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence at the core of humanitarian action). Immediately after the consultation, a Co-Chairs’ Summary was released (see Appendix 1). We advocate for effective and principled humanitarian action by all, for all. The Global Consultation broadly validated the findings of the Synthesis Report and created political momentum and buy-in for the results of the consultation process and the World Humanitarian Summit. As the culmination of an inclusive multi-stakeholder consultation process over eighteen months which engaged more than 23,000 people in over 150 countries, the Global Consultation was held at the Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 14 to 16 October 2015. Leading up to the Summit, various regional consultations have taken place. Find latest updates on global humanitarian responses, https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/whs_global/, Le Secrétaire général appelle à lutter contre l’impunité généralisée pour les crimes commis contre les journalistes, Gender Transformative Approaches for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, Even amid pandemic, governments and advocates rally behind sexual and reproductive health and rights, Secretary-General Condemns Attacks against Journalists in Conflict Zones, Calling for Concerted Efforts to Tackle Widespread Impunity. These are reproduced below under the five action areas that crystallized in the consultation process: dignity, safety, resilience, partnerships and finance. Curated pages dedicated to humanitarian themes and specific humanitarian crises. The first ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) will be held on 23-25 th May 2016 and is a call to action by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to reduce human loss and suffering from crises. It will set an agenda for work beyond 2015 to make the humanitarian system more inclusive, global and effective. The meeting brought together 1,201 participants from 153 countries, representing govern- ments, regional organizations, United Nations agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, local, national and regional civil society, non-governmental and international organizations, affected communities, diaspora networks, the private sector, civil-military, peacekeeping and peacebuilding actors, and academia. Learn more about ReliefWeb, leading online source for reliable and timely humanitarian information on global crises and disasters since 1996. Representatives of all stakeholders were also able to submit their statements in writing or to vid- eo-record their statements in a recording studio at the CICG. World Humanitarian Summit: Global Consultation Geneva, 14-16 October 2015, Final Report Preparations are under way for the first World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in 2015, likely during the second quarter of the year (May/June). Of particular note is the set of recom- mendations that emerged from the break-out discussions. WHO envisages a world where gaps in health outcomes are narrowed; access to universal health care has expanded; and countries have resilient health systems, based on primary health care, which are able to meet the expectations and needs of their people, reach internationally agreed health goals, control noncommunicable diseases and cope with disease outbreaks and natural disasters. The session was chaired by high-level representatives of OCHA, Switzer- land and Turkey who briefed participants on the Global Consultation and the way forward to Istanbul. The Summit will be held in Istanbul on 23 and 24 May 2016 and will bring together governments, humanitarian organizations, people affected by humanitarian crises and new partners including the private sector to propose solutions to our most pressing challenges and set an agenda to keep humanitarian action fit for the future.