The review 's key recommendations aim at providing a holistic governance framework to more strategically plan financing humanitarian operations among the organizations of the United Nations system , and better link short-term financing with longer-term financing , thus bringing about improved efficiency and accountability of humanitarian financing for emergency response and transition to early recovery and to reconstruction . The eight recommendations included in the report focus on improving humanitarian financing for the United Nations system , inter alia , to : ( a ) better mobilize adequate resources on a timely , predictable and sustainable basis and meet the holistic needs of affected countries and funding for core humanitarian coordination through the regular budget in particular for the services of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ; ( b ) increase transparency and accountability in the use of military assets ; ( c ) define common procedures for humanitarian assistance and recovery conferences to ensure adequate funding for under-funded disaster assistance ; and ( d ) under the General Assembly 's mandate , develop a set of good humanitarianfunding principles based on soft earmarking and a participatory approach , taking into account the experience gained through the good humanitarian donorship ( GHD ) initiative , as well as adopt a capacity-building policy to assist disaster-affected countries in developing national disaster insurance schemes .