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Self Report for Initiatives in 2018

The updates on initiatives shown below allow members or signatories to WHS initiatives to report on actions taken in support of the respective initiative. They are not intended to replace reporting processes undertaken by initiative secretariats.

• WHS Commitments
• Initiatives

• Charter for Faith-based Humanitarian Action

  What concrete actions have you taken in support of the initiative.

  As part of its commitment to the Charter:

  1. World Vision co-convened a Forum on ‘Localizing Response to Humanitarian Need’ in Sri Lanka, 16 - 19 October 2017, with faith based organisations and NGOs, including the Joint Learning Initiative, ACT Alliance, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Muslim Aid, Partnership for Faith and Development, World Council of Churches, World Evangelical Alliance, Soka Gakkai International, and other faith based organisations. The forum was attended by 142 people from 36 countries.
     • The Forum focused on identifying good practices, scale-up of engagement with local faith communities. Sessions included: Conflict and Peacemaking, Disaster Response, Refugees/Forced Migration, Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, Gender Based Violence, Children and Health.
     • World Vision supported 4 local faith leaders to participate and speak at the Forum
     • Additional information: https://lrf2017.org/sessions/conflict-peacemaking-panel/#32166; https://lrf2017.org/sessions/what-is-needed-what-resources-are-available
  2. Published ‘Do No Harm for Faith Groups’ co-developed by World Vision and Islamic Relief (https://www.wvi.org/peacebuilding-and-conflict-sensitivity/publication/do-no-harm-faith-groups-christian-muslim-edition ;)
  3. Convened conflict-sensitivity workshops focused on faith leaders using the guidance in Erbil, Iraq and in Bangui, Central African Republic

• Education Cannot Wait

  What concrete actions have you taken in support of the initiative.

  1. Continued investment in education in emergencies programs in Nepal, Iraq, South Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon, Northern Uganda, Syria Response.
  2. Contributed as a member to the work of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Global Education Cluster.
  3. Developed a 10 month blended learning initiative for World Vision staff on Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Minimum Standards.
  4. Rolled out INEE Conflict Sensitive Package across World Vision's Syria Response.
  5. Carried out research on barriers to access to education in the Diffa Region, Niger.
  6. Continued to lead the No Lost Generation Initiative, an ambitious commitment to action by humanitarians, donors and policy makers to support children and youth affected by the Syria and Iraq crises. Launched in 2013, the Initiative is now in Phase II https://nolostgeneration.org/
  7. In September 2017 co-organized symposium in San Francisco bringing together representatives from private and tech sector to address core issues, including protection and education, facing adolescents and youth affected by the Syria Crisis.

• Global Alliance for Urban Crises

  What concrete actions have you taken in support of the initiative.

  1. As Steering Committee Member of the Alliance, World Vision provided active support to shaping governance structure and work plan.
  2. Participated in Alliance Working Groups, contributing to evidence on forced displacement and resilience approaches.
  3. Took leading role in urbanization of Sphere Standards revision. Revision was prompted by an increase in urban crises and is based on learning and important technical advances made in recent years. Revision process will be finalized in 2018.
  4. Led cash-for-work research in Lebanon which contributed to better understanding of appropriate and relevant responses to urban crises. Research carried out with Stronger Cities Initiative, IRC and NRC (https://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10828IIED.pdf)
  5. Produced guidance notes, in partnership with IRC and NRC on operationalisation of Area-Based Approaches:
     • Urban area–based approaches in post-disaster contexts: https://pubs.iied.org/10825IIED/
     • Enacting cash for work programmes in Lebanon: https://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10828IIED

• New Way of Working

  What concrete actions have you taken in support of the initiative.

  1. World Vision's new global strategy 'Our Promise 2030' (ourpromise2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/World-Vision-Strategic-Overview.pdf, see p9), explicitly aligns World Vision internal measures of child well-being to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including measures for collective outcomes to communicate its contributions to SDGs.
  2. In 2017, USD $34 million (5% of total privately raised development funding) was reallocated as a crisis modifier to respond early and quickly to emerging humanitarian crises to save lives and protect development gains.
  3. In line with its commitment to invest in building community resilience World Vision announced an enhancement to its commitment to global strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (MNCH) in humanitarian settings. At the United Nations General Assembly in 2017 it committed to increase financial commitment from USD 500 million to USD 2 billion from 2017 – 2030. In 2017 World Vision invested USD 130 million in Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in humanitarian settings.
  4. Additional progress covered in 4A, 4C, 5C and in Peace Promise, Connecting Business, Alliance for Urban Crises initiatives

• The Connecting Business Initiative

  What concrete actions have you taken in support of the initiative.

  1. Prepared briefings, presentations and reporting on Humanitarian Private Sector Partnership Platform (HPPP)/CBi meetings, newsletters, snapshots and quarterly Steering Committee Meetings.
  2. Supported production of HPPP Newsletters #2, #3, #4 https://www.connectingbusiness.org/east-africa
  3. Promoted CBi within World Vision networks and enabled business connections between with CBi member networks by linking them up with World Vision in South Asia Pacific, Mexico, Turkey, Haiti, Philippines, Myanmar and other countries
  4. Participated and presented at the first CBi global Annual Meeting in February 2017 in Geneva and provided input into the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) consulting design of CBi’s Network Foundation Guide & Assessment Tool.
  5. Worked with the UN office in Nairobi on the mobilization of Humanitarian Private Sector Partnership Platform (HPPP)/Connecting Business initiative (CBi) private sector members for joint advocacy during World Humanitarian Day #NotATarget – campaign with MasterCard, Equity Bank, DanOffice IT, WFP, UNHCR, UNOCHA and UNICEF.

• The Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation

  What concrete actions have you taken in support of the initiative.

  1. See Innovation sections for details in reports on commitments 1B, 1C, 1D, 2D, 3D, 3E, 4A, 4B, 4C.
  2. World Vision continues to second staff to lead the Response Innovation Lab.
  3. The Response Innovation Lab (www.responseinnovationlab.com) and the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation (GAHI) are leading a global program to build evidence for innovation and building evidence field tools for humanitarian innovators alongside ALNAP, the Humanitarian Innovation Fund and the START Network. The work will support innovations to fit in with a global scaling framework and better understand how to scale innovation and what to focus on scaling globally.
  4. Continued to promote GAHI as a Steering Committee Member of ELHRA, which has taken responsibility for hosting GAHI.
  5. World Vision was unable to directly contribute to the GAHI secretariat in 2017 due to responsible staff moving on from the organization.

• The Peace Promise

  What concrete actions have you taken in support of the initiative.

  1. World Vision participated in formal consultations contributing to the United Nations-World Bank ‘Pathways for Peace’ report and UN Secretary-General’s ‘Sustaining Peace’ report.
  2. In 2017 World Vision launched a global strategy across all offices, which commits the whole organisation to increase its financial investment in fragile contexts to 21% by 2020 (https://ourpromise2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/World-Vision-Strate...)
  3. This resulted in design of a Fragile Contexts Programme Approach and Theory of Change that bridge World Vision’s peace, humanitarian and development theories of change, project models, and staffing in complex humanitarian situations. This approach unites interventions around resilience based outcomes for child wellbeing across survival, adaptation, recovery, and thriving into one agile framework. It also commits the organisation to practice effective synergies internally and partner externally across the peace, humanitarian and development sectors.
  4. World Vision created robust internal reporting mechanisms to measure commitments to expansion in fragile contexts, including funding and impact targets, as well as the Peace Promise.