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Summary Overview Document Leaders Summit on Refugees On 20 September 2016, the United Nations Secretary-General and seven Member States co-hosted the Leaders Summit on Refugees to increase global responsibility sharing for Refugees worldwide and thereby strengthen the international community s capacity to address mass displacement. At the Summit, a geographically diverse group of 52 leaders and senior officials, including 32 heads of state or government, pledged to increase multilateral humanitarian assistance by approximately $ billion over 2015 levels. Funds pledged toward humanitarian assistance include contributions to UN humanitarian agencies and appeals as well as other international humanitarian organizations.

of UNHCR’s global response, $14.98 million (CAD $20 million) to the Education Cannot Wait Fund, $553,000 (CAD $739,000) through the International Development Research Centre, to improve the accessibility and quality of learning for refugee and host community children, as

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