Annual Partners Meeting 2024

The 2024 Call to Action Annual Partners’ Meeting in Berlin demonstrated the value of the Call to Action as a powerful convening platform. Around 70 members across the different stakeholder groups, including a number of local women-led organizations and - for the first time - a women refugee-led organization participated in the meeting that marked the conclusion of Germany´s two-year tenure as the lead of the Call to Action.

This year´s annual meeting under the heading “The Call to Action at a Juncture” was kicked off by a high-level panel discussion with Shoko Arakaki (UNFPA), Jeanne Frangieh (Himaya Daeem Aataa), Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth (UNHCR), and Karina Lehmann (Action Against Hunger) moderated by Deike Potzel (German Federal Foreign Office). The panel addressed the question on how the Call to Action can best respond to the global challenges in the humanitarian system and how to enhance coordination and programming of the GBV response.  

Furthermore, the findings of the Call to Action’s External Review were intensely discussed during the meeting in order to collectively determine the way forward for the Call to Action. The meeting also offered space for exchange and networking and contributed to intensifying the existing cooperation, but also initiating new collaborations on GBV in emergencies.

The “Berlin Communiqué”, presented during the Annual Parnters' Meeting, aims at reinvigorating the Call to Action as a concrete instrument for achieving sustained multi-stakeholder action on GBV across different levels of the humanitarian system. Collective efforts and concrete actions of all stakeholder are essential in order to make progress in the areas of accountability, localization, increased data availability and reporting.