Requests the Secretary-General to encourage the relevant organizations of the UN system to continue to identify and use, as appropriate and available, local resources and expertise from within the affected country and/or its neighbours in response to humanitarian needs; requests the relevant UN system organizations to continue to engage systematically with relevant authorities and organizations at the regional and national levels to support efforts to strengthen humanitarian response capacities at all levels; requests the Secretary-General to continue to develop more systematic links with Member States offering military assets for natural disaster response; requests OCHA of the Secretariat to continue to improve the analysis and reporting of comprehensive financial information through its Financial Tracking Service; recommends that the General Assembly, in order to have a more focused discussion on humanitarian issues, explore the possibility at its 61st session of reallocating to the plenary the sub-items of its agenda related to the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance; decides to continue to use informal settings, as they exist within its humanitarian segment, as an opportunity for Member States to be informed about and exchange views on humanitarian issues; requests the Secretary-General to include in his report lessons learned and best practices in the implementation of the pilot projects using the cluster approach and to reflect the progress made in the implementation of and follow-up to the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 30th plenary meeting

In : Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2006, New York, 17 Jan., 7 and 10 Feb., 14 and 22 Mar. and 8 May 2006; resumed organizational session for 2006, New York, 10 and 12 May 2006; substantive session of 2006, Geneva, 3-28 July 2006; resumed substantive session of 2006, New York, 11 Oct., 30 Nov. and 11 and 15 Dec. 2006 - E/2006/99 - p. 18-20 - (ESCOR, 2006, Suppl. no. 1).