Manama, March 9 (BNA) The Bahrain Red Crescent Society participated in the “Humanitarian Leadership for the Middle East and North Africa” conference, which was organized by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society in Cairo, in the presence of a number of senior officials. At the level of representatives of regional and international humanitarian and relief organizations.
The Bahrain Red Crescent Society participated in this conference with a delegation headed by Mubarak Al-Hadi, Secretary General of the Society, Dr. Fawzi Amin, member of the Society’s Board of Directors, and Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim Hassan, Managing Director of the Society. Society.
The delegation of the Bahrain Red Crescent Society contributed to discussing and presenting the Bahraini viewpoint on some of the main issues raised by the conference: health emergencies, human labor localization, migration and displacement, climate change, resource mobilization, financial sustainability, youth and volunteering, and gender equality in relief and humanitarian work.
Al-Hadi stressed the importance of this conference in highlighting the most important humanitarian priorities in the region, strengthening existing partnerships, and identifying new areas of integration between National Societies, stakeholders and other partners for the effectiveness of humanitarian and relief work.
Al-Hadi said that the conference was a great step towards bringing together the ideas of experts in humanitarian work to develop frameworks and ideas that would serve as solutions to many humanitarian issues, to unify visions on the most prominent priorities and challenges in the Middle East and North Africa region. region, and to face all challenges, most notably climate change, refugee issues, and long-term crises.
Al-Hadi indicated that the conference participants agreed on best practices and innovative methods to address climate change challenges in the humanitarian field, exchanged ideas for more flexible solutions to the protracted crises of refugees and displaced persons, and called for adequate funding to address humanitarian challenges. To enhance the role of women and youth leaders in the Middle East and North Africa region.
At the end of the conference, the delegation of the Bahrain Red Crescent Society participated in the “Cairo Declaration”, which was issued under the slogan “a call to action”, and included many recommendations, including accelerating effective local actions that promote mitigation and adaptation. Climate change, which leads to the resilience of societies with disaster risk reduction, prioritization and community-led actions, while participating with public authorities in developing national adaptation plans, as well as renewing the meaningful role of engaging youth and volunteers in addressing climate and environmental crises in their communities.
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