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Participants were invited to make individual or joint commitments to help achieve the Agenda for Humanity. In addition, they were invited to align themselves to 32 core commitments developed for the 7 High-level Leaders’ Roundtables of the World Humanitarian Summit. Each stakeholders commitments are organized by commitment type in the table below.

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4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

Joint Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The Alliance of Small Island States, with support from partners, commits to work towards gaining access to technical assistance and financing for early warning systems, disaster risk reduction and post-disaster response and recovery, risk assessment and data, land use and planning, observation equipment, disaster preparedness and recovery education programmes, including under the Global Framework for Climate Services and disaster risk management.


  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Partners: Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Alliance of Small Island States

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • The Alliance of Small Island States commits to increase efforts to mainstream policies and programmes related to disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and development, as appropriate.
  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The Alliance of Small Island States, with support from partners, commits to strengthen and support contingency planning and provisions for disaster preparedness and response, emergency relief and population evacuation, in particular for people in vulnerable situations, women and girls, displaced persons, children, older persons and people with disabilities.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The Alliance of Small Island States, with support from partners, will promote cooperation and investment in disaster risk management in the public and private sectors.
  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

5B
Invest according to risk

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • The Alliance of Small Island States commits to establish and strengthen risk insurance facilities at the national and regional levels and place disaster risk management and building resilience at the centre of policies and strategies, where applicable.
  • Operational
  • Invest in Humanity

5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • The Alliance of Small Island States commits to harmonize national and regional reporting systems, where applicable, to increase synergies and coherence.
  • Operational
  • Invest in Humanity