AGENDA FOR HUMANITY

An Agenda for Action and Change

The Agenda for Humanity sets out five major areas for action and change, the 5 Core Responsibilities, that are needed to address and reduce humanitarian need, risk and vulnerability, and 24 key transformations that will help achieve them. Learn more by clicking on the icons below.

#1 Prevent and end conflicts Prevent and end conflicts

Demonstrate timely, coherent and decisive political leadership

Act early

Remain engaged and invest in stability

Develop solutions with and for people

#2 Respect rules of war Respect rules of war

Respect and protect civilians and civilian objects in the conduct of hostilities

Ensure delivery of humanitarian and medical assistance

Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions

Speak out on violations

Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity

#3 Leave no one behind Leave no one behind

Reduce and address displacement

Address the vulnerabilities of migrants and provide more regular and lawful opportunities for migration

End statelessness in the next decade

Empower and protect women and girls

Eliminate gaps in education for children, adolescents and young people

Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation

Address other groups or minorities in crisis settings

#4 Work differently to end need Work differently to end need

Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems

Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides

#5 Invest in humanity Invest in humanity

Invest in local capacities

Invest according to risk

Invest in stability

Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing

Diversify resources and increase efficiency

Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency

Agenda For Humanity Resources Self-report search

Key Resources

The Report of the Secretary-General on the outcomes of the World Humanitarian Summit (A/71/353) invited stakeholders who made commitments to implement the Agenda for Humanity to provide an annual self-report. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) analysed these self-reports to identify trends in collective progress and challenges. The results were published yearly in an Annual Synthesis Report. In this section, you will find these annual reports as well as thematic reports by partners, which analyze specific topics and/or transformations, providing an overview of progress while identifying challenges hindering effective humanitarian action. The self-reporting process concluded in 2019, three years after the World Humanitarian Summit.

In 2019, OCHA also produced a set of data visualizations. Through these visualizations, users can explore reporting trends by transformation and stakeholders as well as challenges and cross-cutting issues, for 2019 and previous years.

Publications Data visualizations

World Humanitarian Summit

The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) took place in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2016. It brought together some 9,000 participants representing 180 Member States, over 700 local and international NGOs, the private sector and other stakeholders. The Summit mobilized support and action for the Agenda for Humanity, and catalyzed major changes in the way we address humanitarian need, risk and vulnerability.

At the Summit, stakeholders made more than 3,500 commitments to support the implementation of the Agenda for Humanity, and launched dozens of initiatives and partnerships on issues including disabilities, gender, innovation, localization, humanitarian-development collaboration, education in emergencies and youth to help deliver the changes needed.

WHS Resources Commitments Search Initiatives