the private sector, first responders, relevant international organisations, with a view towards identifying god practices and local mechanisms and responses that could be utilised potentially and learned from other regions of the world or even in the same regions and expand it to be adopted by others. The outcome, and I will turn to this very quickly, was a series of principles, core principles: obviously, saving lives first, ensuring non-discriminatory access to protection in the systems, provided targeted measures to overcome barriers, some key core principles […], as well as guidelines. Guidelines that are addressed to the pre-crises preparedness phase, to the actual emergency phase and to the post-crisis response and reconstruction phase much like what is being proposed here for minority populations. And we under-pinned those principles and guidelines with effective practices that were garnered from states and from civil society international organisations and very importantly from the private sector around the world. And created a repository with over 300 good practices with the idea that from learning from the ground-up we could share good responses and do a better job collectively for protection and assistance. I won’t go into details now in the interest of time. I am happy to share with you and make available to you those guidelines as well as particularly the online repository of practices because of course there are some minority populations that are also migrant populations, and in particular I am thinking here of pastoralists and nomadic populations; but of course, other ethnic minorities and religious minorities. So I do believe there are things that can be imported from the work that we did with respect to migrants that are of direct relevance to your work here. And would encourage of thinking about solutions and inclusive approach that brings in civil society, private sector, civil protection actors and more. Thank you very much for your time.

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