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Self Report 2019

The self-report on WHS Commitments below is organized according to the 24 transformations of the Agenda for Humanity. It is based on commitments pledged at the time of report submission. Click on the 'Expand' symbol to expand each section and read the reporting inputs by transformation.

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  • 1B
    Act early

    Individual Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • Japan commits to share and demonstrate good practices and lessons learned on conflict prevention and resolution in Asia.
    • Policy
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

    Core Commitments (2)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to act early upon potential conflict situations based on early warning findings and shared conflict analysis, in accordance with international law.
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
    • Commit to make successful conflict prevention visible by capturing, consolidating and sharing good practices and lessons learnt.
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    In 2018, Japan shared its contribution to peaceful resolution of conflicts with the international community in various occasions such as an open debate of the UN Security Council as well as a ministerial side event to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly on Youth, Peace and Security.

    In December 2018, the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines and the UN co-hosted the Bangsamoro Forum. The forum sought to deepen the international community’s understanding of the Mindanao Peace Process through a discussion of current progress, future plans, and challenges.

    Japan continues to share and demonstrate good practices and lessons learned on conflict prevention and resolution in Asia.

     

    For more information, please see the attached document.

  • 1C
    Remain engaged and invest in stability

    Individual Commitments (3)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • Japan commits to train experts who could contribute in this area, for example, through its Global Peacebuilders Program.
    • Training
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
    • Japan commits to addressing root causes of conflict by investing in social stabilization and development, through assistance to reduce poverty and disparities such as strengthening prevention, preparedness and response capacities against public health emergencies, as well as ensuring the basic health services as part of stable economic and social infrastructure.
    • Financial
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
    • Japan commits to contribute to prevent and resolve conflicts including through being a member and chair (2016) of the G7, its efforts as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (2016-2017), as well as via its contribution to the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission and the Conference on the Cooperation among East Asian countries for Palestinian Development (CEAPAD).
    • Operational
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

    Core Commitments (3)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to improve prevention and peaceful resolution capacities at the national, regional and international level improving the ability to work on multiple crises simultaneously.
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
    • Commit to sustain political leadership and engagement through all stages of a crisis to prevent the emergence or relapse into conflict.
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
    • Commit to address root causes of conflict and work to reduce fragility by investing in the development of inclusive, peaceful societies.
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    From January to December 2018, Japan provided training courses through the Global Peacebuilders Program to 47 people in order to train experts in the area of peacebuilding and development.

    Japan has worked on addressing root causes of conflict by investing in social stabilization and development, through assistance to reduce poverty and disparities such as strengthening prevention, preparedness and response capacities against public health emergencies, as well as ensuring the basic health services as part of stable economic and social infrastructure. Japan provided assistance of the total amount US$57.3 million to support including food, water and sanitation, and education for displaced persons  and host community in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The program aims to provide humanitarian support for conflict affected people and host community in both countries.

    Japan has contributed to preventing and resolving conflicts including through its efforts as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (2016-2017), as well as via its contribution to the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission. In 2018, Japan has disbursed 2 million dollars to the Peace Building Fund (PBF). Furthermore, in 2018, Japan has contributed to the peace in the Middle East through the Third Conference on the Cooperation among East Asian countries for Palestinian Development (CEAPAD) held in June; the Sixth Ministerial-Level Meeting of the Four-Party Consultative Unit for the “Corridor for Peace and Prosperity” in April; and the Ministerial Meeting on United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) held during the General Assembly of UN in September.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

  • 1D
    Develop solutions with and for people

    Individual Commitments (2)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Based on its National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security based on the Security Council Resolution 1325, Japan commits to: 1) ensure equal participation of women in all stages in the field of peace and security with the intent of achieving gender mainstreaming; 2) promote women's participation and leadership in all processes of prevention, management, and resolution of conflicts and in decision making while strengthening a gender equal perspective; 3) protect various aid recipients including women and girls from violence and other human rights infringement during or after conflict or under humanitarian crisis such as large-scale disaster; 4) provide humanitarian and reconstruction assistance while reflecting circumstances and needs unique to women and girls, promoting women's empowerment, and ensuring women's participation.


    • Operational
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind

    • Japan commits to promote inclusion of women and women's groups into political decision-making and peace processes, including through implementation of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security based on the Security Council Resolution 1325.


    • Advocacy
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Based on its National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security based on the Security Council Resolution 1325, Japan has been providing opportunity and support for promoting leadership, equal participation, and empowerment of women. For example, Japan has supported UN Women’s projects on Women's Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection in Crisis Response (LEAP) in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan to nurture leadership of women in the refugee camps and host communities in addition to providing them protection, humanitarian assistance and economic empowerment. Japan also supports the project on Integrating Gender into Peace Support Operations in Eastern Africa.

    Japan has promoted inclusion of women and women’s groups into political decision-making and peace processes. For example, Japan supported UN Women project on Integrating Gender into Peace Support Operations in Eastern Africa. November 11, 2018, Japan organized two times the internal advisors meeting for the “World Assembly for Women: WAW! 2019”in Tokyo, in March 2019 in which advocated women’s equal participation in decision making in all level including peace process.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Gender

  • 2B
    Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions

    Individual Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • Japan commits to ensure full respect for humanitarian principles, international humanitarian law and human rights law. Japan also commits to promote and enhance the protection of civilians and access to humanitarian and medical assistance. Specific examples include implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2286 on Health Care in Armed Conflict, which Japan strongly supported recently; contribution to discussion to establish feasible compliance mechanisms for international humanitarian law; and advocacy activities to raise awareness of IHL's importance at the various relevant conferences.
    • Advocacy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

    Core Commitments (2)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to ensure all populations in need receive rapid and unimpeded humanitarian assistance.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Commit to promote and enhance efforts to respect and protect medical personnel, transports and facilities, as well as humanitarian relief personnel and assets against attacks, threats or other violent acts.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Japan has made efforts to ensure full respect for humanitarian principles, as well as compliance with international humanitarian law and human rights law. For example, Japan has revitalized the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) National Committee together with the Japanese Red Cross Society to further promote discussions on IHL. Japan has also been an active participant in discussions in international fora, including the intergovernmental process on IHL held in Geneva.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Humanitarian principles, IHL compliance and accountability

  • 2C
    Speak out on violations

    Core Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to speak out and systematically condemn serious violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations and abuses of international human rights law and to take concrete steps to ensure accountability of perpetrators when these acts amount to crimes under international law.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Japan has contributed to eradicating and preventing sexual violence in conflict and sexual and gender-based violence and protecting survivors through the contribution to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG-SVC) as well as various assistances in line with its National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. For example, Japan supported SRSG-SVC and its Team of Experts project on “Team of Experts' support to the consolidation of the progress made in the implementation of the CAR-United Nations joint communique on addressing conflict sexual violence” and “Assistance to the Government of Iraq and Kurdistan Regional Government in Combating Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Committed by the so called Isramic State of Iraq and the Levant/Da’esh” in Iraq, which strengthen capacity of government and rule of law as key factor of sexual violence prevention mechanism.

     

    Japan has contributed to reinforcing the global justice system in order to end impunity. Japan has supported the work of the ICC as the largest financial contributor and by providing human resources. Ms. Tomoko Akane, Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has been actively contributing to ICC activities. Japan also announced that it would make a voluntary contribution of approximately 52,000Euros to the Trust Fund for Victims of the ICC in 2018.

     

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Gender

  • 2D
    Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

    Individual Commitments (3)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Japan commits to contribute to eradicating sexual and gender-based violence and protecting survivors. Japan has been actively participating in the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI), is one of the largest donors to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, has introduced a National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, and has provided training for concerned stakeholders including military, police, judicial and civilian personnel to promote prevention of sexual and gender-based violence in various countries.


    • Operational
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Japan commits to contribute to reinforcing the global justice system in order to end impunity. Japan's long term contribution in this area can be seen in its various forms of engagement in the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).
    • Operational
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Japan commits to support the Code of Conduct of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group regarding Security Council action against genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes, as well as the French-Mexican initiative on collective and voluntary agreement among the permanent members to refrain from the use of veto in case of mass atrocities.
    • Policy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

    Core Commitments (4)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and refugee law, where applicable.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Commit to speak out and systematically condemn serious violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations and abuses of international human rights law and to take concrete steps to ensure accountability of perpetrators when these acts amount to crimes under international law.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Implement a coordinated global approach to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in crisis contexts, including through the Call to Action on Protection from Gender-based Violence in Emergencies.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Fully comply with humanitarian policies, frameworks and legally binding documents related to gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Gender-based violence prevention and response

    Japan has contributed to eradicating and preventing sexual violence in conflict and sexual and gender-based violence and protecting survivors through the contribution to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG-SVC) as well as various assistances in line with its National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. For example, Japan supported SRSG-SVC and its Team of Experts project on “Team of Experts' support to the consolidation of the progress made in the implementation of the CAR-United Nations joint communique on addressing conflict sexual violence” and “Assistance to the Government of Iraq and Kurdistan Regional Government in Combatting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Committed by the so called Isramic State of Iraq and the Levant/Da’esh” in Iraq, which strengthen capacity of government and rule of law as key factor of sexual violence prevention mechanism.

     

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Other

    Japan continues to support the Code of Conduct of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group regarding Security Council action against genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes, as well as the French-Mexican initiative on collective and voluntary agreement among the permanent  members to refrain from the use of veto in case of mass atrocities.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Gender, IHL compliance and accountability

  • 2E
    Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity

    Individual Commitments (2)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • Japan commits to continue to work strenuously towards the promotion of universalization of the Convention on Cluster Munitions and its full implementation.
    • Advocacy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    • Japan commits to promote the commitments made under the joint pledge on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.
    • Advocacy
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

    Core Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and refugee law, where applicable.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Japan has been working strenuously towards the promotion of universalization of the Convention on Cluster Munitions and its full implementation.

    Japan has been promoting the commitments made under the joint pledge on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. In order to carry various projects in the field of mine action, Japan provided more than 36 million USD during FY 2018 and, separately from that, Japan contributed approximately 75,000 Swiss France to the ISU of the convention.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

  • 3A
    Reduce and address displacement

    Individual Commitments (6)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • Based on the concept of human security, Japan commits to contribute to protect and empower refugees and internally displaced persons to be free from fear and want and to be able to live in dignity as well as to build societies resilient to crises.
    • Operational
    • Leave No One Behind

    • Japan commits to implement the following five points in order to achieve better collaboration between humanitarian and development actors to find solutions for forcibly displaced persons as pointed out in the Joint Statement by the Government of Japan and the Solutions Alliance, which was issued at the WHS side event on "Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus": 1) Ensuring meaningful participation of the most affected - host and returnee communities and forcibly displaced people - in the pursuit of solutions to forced displacement; 2) Including forced displacement issues in national and local development plans, and in peacebuilding and recovery strategies; 3) Marshaling the comparative advantages of humanitarian and development actors for collective action through the promotion of institutional flexibility while respecting fundamental principles; 4)Developing a common vision through identification of complementary policies, and joint analysis that enables holistic planning; 5) Seeing the humanitarian-development nexus as an integral part of promoting peace and security.


    • Policy
    • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to provide support to refugee hosting countries and communities. For example, Japan has been supporting long-term commitment of refugee-hosting countries and communities by providing innovative financing, including concessional loans to crisis-hit countries with relatively high income levels (for example, Yen loans to Turkey and Jordan).
    • Operational
    • Leave No One Behind

    • Japan commits to providing an assistance package of about US$ 6 billion for the Middle East region between 2016 and 2018 including human resource development programs for about 20,000 people. Furthermore, Japan will dispatch Japan Team for Refugees and Community (J-TRaC) to refugee camps by JICA and increase the number of Syrian students in Japan. Japan has also recently committed to contributing US$ 50 million and a maximum of US$ 900 million in yen loans over the next 5 years for the World Bank's new financing initiative to support the Middle East and North Africa.


    • Financial Contribution ()
    • Leave No One Behind Invest in Humanity

    • Japan commits to strengthen measures to address displacement caused by natural disaster, climate change and public health emergency, through for example prior investment in disaster risk reduction, early warning, preparedness and implementation of "build back better" after a disaster occurs. Japan has provided support in countries including in the Asia-Pacific region and in Africa as well as through the Green Climate Fund.


    • Financial
    • Leave No One Behind Invest in Humanity
    • With a view to reducing the burden shouldered by refugee-hosting countries and communities as well as strengthening their resilience, Japan commits to continue to provide support to the host countries and communities, in terms of infrastructure development, service delivery improvement and capacity building of local government officials and community-based organizations. This support includes that provided for local government capacity development in West Nile in Uganda. Japan also has been supporting the long-term commitments of refugee-hosting countries and communities by providing loans to crisis-hit countries with relatively high income levels. (ex. Yen loans to Turkey and Jordan).
    • Financial
    • Leave No One Behind

    Core Commitments (5)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to a new approach to addressing forced displacement that not only meets immediate humanitarian needs but reduces vulnerability and improves the resilience, self-reliance and protection of refugees and IDPs. Commit to implementing this new approach through coherent international, regional and national efforts that recognize both the humanitarian and development challenges of displacement. Commit to take the necessary political, policy, legal and financial steps required to address these challenges for the specific context.
    • Leave No One Behind
    • Commit to promote and support safe, dignified and durable solutions for internally displaced persons and refugees. Commit to do so in a coherent and measurable manner through international, regional and national programs and by taking the necessary policy, legal and financial steps required for the specific contexts and in order to work towards a target of 50 percent reduction in internal displacement by 2030.
    • Leave No One Behind
    • Acknowledge the global public good provided by countries and communities which are hosting large numbers of refugees. Commit to providing communities with large numbers of displaced population or receiving large numbers of returnees with the necessary political, policy and financial, support to address the humanitarian and socio-economic impact. To this end, commit to strengthen multilateral financing instruments. Commit to foster host communities' self-reliance and resilience, as part of the comprehensive and integrated approach outlined in core commitment 1.
    • Leave No One Behind
    • Commit to collectively work towards a Global Compact on responsibility-sharing for refugees to safeguard the rights of refugees, while also effectively and predictably supporting States affected by such movements.
    • Leave No One Behind
    • Commit to actively work to uphold the institution of asylum and the principle of non-refoulement. Commit to support further accession to and strengthened implementation of national, regional and international laws and policy frameworks that ensure and improve the protection of refugees and IDPs, such as the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol or the AU Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala convention) or the Guiding Principles on internal displacement.
    • Leave No One Behind
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Refugees

    In December 2016, Japan formulated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Implementation Guiding Principles. Japan has been working on implementing measures which contribute to the realization of the world where no one is left behind, including the assistance for refugees and internally displaced persons.

     

    Japan has provided support to refugee hosting countries and communities including provision of innovative financing.

     

    Japan has been steadily implementing its commitments to providing an assistance package of about 6 billion US dollars for the Middle East region between 2016 and 2018 including human resource development programs for about 20,000 people. Japan has dispatched Japan Team for Refugees and Community (J-TRaC) to refugee camps by JICA.

    In 2018, we accepted 29Syrian students (Under the Japanese Initiative for the future of Syrian Refugees (JISR), JICA received 20 Syrian students, and under the Japanese Government Scholarship Program, Japan received 9 Syrian students in 2018.).

     

    In order to reduce the burden shouldered by refugee-hosting countries and communities as well as strengthening their resilience, Japan has provided support for service delivery improvement and capacity building of local government officials and community-based organizations.

     

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    IDPs (due to conflict, violence, and disaster)

    Japan has continued to implement the five points identified in the Joint Statement by the Government of Japan and the Solutions Alliance in order to achieve better collaboration between humanitarian and development actors to find solutions for forcibly displaced persons.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Cross-border, disaster and climate related displacement

    Japan has provided support for disaster risk reduction, early warning, disaster preparedness, and measures against health emergency as well as climate change effects to address cross-border displacement caused by natural hazards, climate change and public health emergencies. For example, Japan also continues to make contribution to related international organizations and funds such as ISDR, OCHA, WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergency, World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, the Green Climate Fund, etc. Also, Japan has supported “the Project for Strengthening Integrated Risk Governance Capacities and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia” in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement

  • 3D
    Empower and protect women and girls

    Individual Commitments (7)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Based on its National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security based on the Security Council Resolution 1325, Japan commits to: 1) ensure equal participation of women in all stages in the field of peace and security with the intent of achieving gender mainstreaming; 2) promote women's participation and leadership in all processes of prevention, management, and resolution of conflicts and in decision making while strengthening a gender equal perspective; 3) protect various aid recipients including women and girls from violence and other human rights infringement during or after conflict or under humanitarian crisis such as large-scale disaster; 4) provide humanitarian and reconstruction assistance while reflecting circumstances and needs unique to women and girls, promoting women's empowerment, and ensuring women's participation.


    • Operational
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind
    • Japan commits to actively support projects which contribute to the empowerment and protection of women and girls as well as to play a leading role towards creating the societies in which women shine, including by holding the World Assembly for Women.
    • Operational
    • Leave No One Behind
    • Japan commits to improve the environment of women through measures such as increasing the enrollment rate of girls, providing vocational-training, and improving water-supply systems in local areas.
    • Operational
    • Leave No One Behind

    • Japan commits to promote inclusion of women and women's groups into political decision-making and peace processes, including through implementation of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security based on the Security Council Resolution 1325.


    • Advocacy
    • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind
    • Japan commits to promote the leadership and participation of women in decision-making at all levels regarding disaster risk reduction, response and recovery.
    • Operational
    • Leave No One Behind

    • Japan commits to promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC) thus improving women's access to health services.


    • Advocacy
    • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Over the next three years (2016-2018), Japan will conduct human resource development program for about 5,000 female officials and professionals and improve learning environment for about 50,000 female students.
    • Capacity
    • Leave No One Behind

    Core Commitments (4)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Empower Women and Girls as change agents and leaders, including by increasing support for local women's groups to participate meaningfully in humanitarian action.
    • Leave No One Behind
    • Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the Outcome documents of their review conferences for all women and adolescent girls in crisis settings.
    • Leave No One Behind
    • Ensure that humanitarian programming is gender responsive.
    • Leave No One Behind
    • Fully comply with humanitarian policies, frameworks and legally binding documents related to gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights.
    • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Empowerment of women and girls

    Based on its National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security based on the Security Council Resolution 1325, Japan has been providing opportunity and support for promoting leadership, equal participation, and empowerment of women. For example, Japan has supported UN Women’s projects on Women's Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection in Crisis Response (LEAP) in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan to nurture leadership of women in the refugee camps and host communities in addition to providing them protection, humanitarian assistance and economic empowerment. Japan also supports the project on Integrating Gender into Peace Support Operations in Eastern Africa.

    Japan organized internal advisors meeting for WAW!/W20 in March, 2019. Japan continues to tackle for “A Society where Women Shine” inside and outside of the country.

    Japan supported training of masons as part of Emergency Housing Reconstruction Project in Nepal, which includes 89 women.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Gender

  • 3E
    Eliminate gaps in education for children, adolescents and young people

    Individual Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • Japan commits to provide support to ensure access to education to children, adolescents and youth and promote capacity building to enable adolescents and youth to be agents of positive transformation.
    • Operational
    • Leave No One Behind
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Japan has provided support to ensure access to education to children, adolescents and youth and promote capacity building to enable adolescents and youth to be agents of positive transformation through various means including bilateral assistance as well as contributions to international organizations such as UNICEF and GPE. Specifically, Japan has supported “Project for Enhancement of Non-formal Education” in Pakistan and the “Project for the Improvement of Vocational Training Centers” in Mozambique.  In June 2018, at G7 Charlevoix summit, Japan committed to provide 200 million USD in girls and women’s quality education and human resource development in developing countries. In December 2018, Japan has set up the “Japan Next – Generation Platform for promoting SDGs” at the 6th meeting of Japan SDGs Promotion Headquarters chaired by Prime Minister Abe.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Education, Gender

  • 4A
    Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems

    Individual Commitments (6)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Japan commits not only to meet the urgent needs of people under humanitarian crises but to also contribute to building societies resilient to crises by strengthening the humanitarian and development nexus.


    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to continue to address root causes of crises and support resilience building and prevention capacities of affected countries and communities. Japan will endeavor to provide support in continuum to those who are affected by engaging effective partnership with humanitarian actors and exploring flexibility in delivering assistance while upholding comparative advantages of its own, for example through enhanced engagement in the Solution Alliance and partnership with international organizations such as UNHCR, UNDP, WFP and OCHA, enhancement of the resilience of national health systems including through developing the capacity of health workers, awareness raising and dissemination of public health information and education at the community level, strengthening of the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) of WHO, and so on.
    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to continue to endeavor to Build Back Better during periods of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction so that societies do not simply recover to the same situation as that which existed prior to the disaster but rather overcome vulnerabilities based on lessons learned from the disaster and reconstruct toward becoming resilient to disasters. (ex. assistance to recovery and reconstruction from the Nepal Earthquake)
    • Financial
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to continue to work with and through the host country and government, so that parallel channels of support are not created and local capacities are not impaired. In the belief that crisis management requires strong ownership of locals, Japan will continue to invest in local capacity building including for refugee-hosting countries and communities. Such support includes ongoing assistance such as Grass-roots Technical Assistance in Zambia, Assistance program for West Nile region in Northern Uganda, Yen loans in Turkey and Jordan, and so on.
    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to put people at the center and supports capacity and institution building at national, community and regional level. For example, Japan provides various training programs to government officials, the private sector and civil society in disaster prone countries through governmental agencies, universities, private companies with Japanese experiences.
    • Capacity
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan, based on the concept of human security, commits to put people at the center and supports capacity and institution building at national, community and regional levels.
    • Capacity
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    Core Commitments (4)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Commit to reinforce national and local leadership and capacities in managing disaster and climate-related risks through strengthened preparedness and predictable response and recovery arrangements.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Commit to increase investment in building community resilience as a critical first line of response, with the full and effective participation of women.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Commit to ensure regional and global humanitarian assistance for natural disasters complements national and local efforts.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Other

    Japan has advocated for and implemented concrete projects to strengthen humanitarian-development nexus. For example, Various projects including model projects for humanitarian-development nexus in 4 countries in the Middle East and Africa have been in progress. For example, in Zambia, JICA has worked closely with Zambian government, UHNCR, UNDP and other actors to support Zambia government’s resettlement program.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Strengthening national/local leadership and systems

    Japan has been working on to address root causes of crises and support resilience building and prevention capacities of affected countries and communities. Japan has taken comprehensive approach from short-term to mid- and long-term assistance to meet urgent needs of people as well as to build resilience by building effective partnership with international organizations such as UNHCR, UNDP, WFP and OCHA. In terms of capacity building, for example, Japan announced to invest in human resource development to about 10 million people from 2016 to 2018 for African countries at Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) held in Nairobi in August 2016. A ministerial meeting was held in October 2018 to follow up the outcome of TICAD VI. Japan offers concrete assistance to partners to strengthen their IHR core capacities and has participated actively in the Joint External Evaluation (JEE).

     

    Japan has worked with and through the host country and government and invested in local capacity building including for refugee-hosting countries and communities.

     

    Japan, based on the concept of human security, has supported capacity and institution building at national, community and regional levels. Japan has also supported “the Project for Electoral Support in Afghanistan” through UNDP in Afghanistan.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Local action, Strengthening local systems

  • 4B
    Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

    Individual Commitments (7)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Japan commits to anticipate and prepare for crises before they happen, by investing in data and risk analysis as well as by supporting response capacity and institution building. For example, Japan supports WFP's vulnerability assessment and mapping (VAM) activities and capacity building through UNHCR eCentre, support for strengthening surveillance and laboratory capacity which contributes to prevent, detect and respond to health crisis including infectious disease outbreak, and so on.


    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to contribute to achieving the goals and outcomes of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 through active participation of Japanese experts in the open - ended intergovernmental expert working group to determine indicators and terminology for the 7 global targets of the framework, including to substantially reduce the number of disaster mortalities and the number of affected people, and to substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to the people.
    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to contribute to building disaster-resilient societies through provision of both non-material and material assistance by sharing Japan's expertise in and technologies for disaster risk reduction as well as through promoting partnership with a broader range of stakeholders. Such contributions include development of infrastructure that is resilient to disasters; sharing of technologies for disaster observation, prediction and warning; assistance for establishing laws, institutions and systems on disaster risk reduction; disaster education; assistance for ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster management (AHA Centre); and assistance for region-wide cooperation such as Sentinel Asia and Disaster Management Collaboration Dialogue.
    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    • Japan commits to enhance partnership with the private sector and promote effective use of knowledge and technologies in order to provide sustainable solutions for people's stable and dignified lives. This includes utilization of the Japanese private sector's knowledge, skills and technologies, and so on.


    • Partnership
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to raise awareness among the international community of the significance of preparedness for disasters through early warning, the utilization of indigenous knowledge and Build Back Better (BBB) as well as through the prompt dissemination of information at various occasions. In this regard, Japan will hold and support various events related to World Tsunami Awareness Day such as hosting the High School Students Summit on World Tsunami Awareness Day. Japan will continue to provide support such as introduction of early warning system, technical assistance on tsunami mitigation and prevention, and so on.
    • Advocacy
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    • Japan commits to share information on the effectiveness of prior investment in disaster prevention and promote mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction in developing countries. Japan will also support respective countries in reducing economic damages which is a common goal of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the SDGs. Specifically, Japan will contribute to realization of comprehensive disaster risk reduction through capacity development of national disaster risk reduction agencies that will enable better coordination among local governments and other stakeholders in the planning of disaster risk reduction.


    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    • Japan commits to steadily implement its commitments under the Sendai Cooperation Initiative for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was announced by Prime Minister Abe in March 2015, as follows:



      1) Provide cooperation through effectively combining (i) non-material assistance, including assistance for establishing legislation, institutions and systems, as well as human resource development, (ii) material assistance, centering on the development of economic and social infrastructure, and (iii) global and region-wide cooperation.



      2) To carry out the above mentioned cooperation, provide 4 billion US dollars in total to the area related to disaster risk reduction and train 40 thousand government officials and local leaders to play a leading role in national efforts for disaster risk reduction and implementation of post-disaster Build Back Better from 2015 to 2018.


    • Financial
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    Core Commitments (3)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Commit to accelerate the reduction of disaster and climate-related risks through the coherent implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as other relevant strategies and programs of action, including the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
    • Commit to improve the understanding, anticipation and preparedness for disaster and climate-related risks by investing in data, analysis and early warning, and developing evidence-based decision-making processes that result in early action.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management (including resilience)

    Japan has extended support for improving anticipation and preparedness for crises by investing in data and risk analysis as well as by supporting response capacity and institution building. For example, Japan has supported WFP’s vulnerability assessment and mapping (VAM) activities and capacity building through UNHCR eCentre; provided support for strengthening surveillance and laboratory capacity which contributes to prevent, detect and respond to health crisis including infectious disease outbreak, and so on. In 2018, Japan, through WFP, provided support for the emergency preparedness and response in Pacific countries such as Fiji, and “Project for Introduction of Nationwide Early Warning System and Strengthening” in Tonga.

    Japan promoted awareness-raising among the international community on disaster risk reduction through sharing Japan’s experience as well as advocating the importance of disaster risk reduction at various occasions. For example, from 31 October to 1 November 2018, 378 high school students from 48 countries, including Japan, actively participated in the High School Students Summit on World Tsunami Awareness Day 2018 in Wakayama Prefecture that aimed to encourage the high school students to become future leaders in the field of DRR. The “Inamura-no-Hi Declaration” was adopted as a result in the Summit.

     

    For more information, please see the attached document.

     

    Preparedness

    Japan contributes to Latin American countries through “the Disaster Risk Reduction Training Program for Latin America and the Caribbean”, which is the triangular cooperation supported by Chile and Japan. Japan has also supported “Project on Capacity Development for Disaster Risk Management in Central America, Phase 2”in North and Latin America such as El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Japan, in cooperation with UNDP, is providing assistance to the implementation of tsunami evacuation drills jointly conducted with local schools in 18 countries in Asia-Pacific region. Also, Japan provided a grant aid worth 850 million yen to Laos to provide support for school education, water and sanitation, agriculture and housing sectors in the areas affected by the flood through international organizations. Japan also provided a grant of 1.278 billion yen to ”The Project for Improvement of Flood Forecasting and Warning System for Cagayan de Oro River Basin”.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Disaster Risk Reduction, Preparedness

  • 4C
    Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides

    Individual Commitments (5)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Japan commits not only to meet the urgent needs of people under humanitarian crises but to also contribute to building societies resilient to crises by strengthening the humanitarian and development nexus.


    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    • Japan commits to implement the following five points in order to achieve better collaboration between humanitarian and development actors to find solutions for forcibly displaced persons as pointed out in the Joint Statement by the Government of Japan and the Solutions Alliance, which was issued at the WHS side event on "Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus": 1) Ensuring meaningful participation of the most affected - host and returnee communities and forcibly displaced people - in the pursuit of solutions to forced displacement; 2) Including forced displacement issues in national and local development plans, and in peacebuilding and recovery strategies; 3) Marshaling the comparative advantages of humanitarian and development actors for collective action through the promotion of institutional flexibility while respecting fundamental principles; 4)Developing a common vision through identification of complementary policies, and joint analysis that enables holistic planning; 5) Seeing the humanitarian-development nexus as an integral part of promoting peace and security.


    • Policy
    • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    • Japan commits to promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC) thus improving women's access to health services.


    • Advocacy
    • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    • Japan commits to strengthen the humanitarian and development nexus by implementing and promoting a comprehensive approach to address forced displacement by providing humanitarian assistance that meets the urgent needs of refugees and internally displaced persons as well as by providing comprehensive cooperation, including education and vocational and agricultural training to promote their self-reliance and the development of host communities. In this regard, Japan, in collaboration with international organizations, implements model projects in 9 countries including in the Middle East and Africa. Japan also carries out projects in countries such as Afghanistan and other countries in the Middle East and Africa that contribute to addressing both the humanitarian and longer-term development needs of these people. This support includes educational support for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, vocational training for Syrian refugee women in Jordan, vocational and agricultural training for Congolese and South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, and so on.
    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    • Learning lessons from the Ebola outbreak and other public health crises in the past, Japan commits to contribute to strengthening of international response to public health emergencies including promoting the coordination between the humanitarian sector and health sector. Also, Japan is committed to promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which contributes to realizing the principle of "no one left behind", as well as enhancing prevention of and preparedness for public health emergencies, by health system strengthening including human resources development.


    • Operational
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

    Core Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Other

    Japan has been promoting Universal Health Coverage (UHC) thus improving women’s access to health services. For example, Japan continues supporting initiatives in sexual and reproductive health and rights through contributions to UNFPA and IPPF. Japan co-organized “UHC Forum 2017” with World Bank, WHO, UNICEF, UHC2030, and JICA in December 2017.  Based on the discussions at the conference, “UHC Tokyo Declaration” was adopted as the commitment to acceralate the efforts towards achieving UHC by 2030 and the commitment is under implementation.

    Japan has advocated for and implemented concrete projects to strengthen humanitarian-development nexus. For example, Japan proactively participated in the meetings of the Global Compact on Refugees in 2018. Various projects including model projects for humanitarian-development nexus in 4 countries in the Middle East and Africa have been in progress.

     

    For more information, please see the attached document.

     

    Keywords

    Displacement, Gender, Humanitarian-development nexus

  • 5A
    Invest in local capacities

    Individual Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • Japan commits to provide support to enhance national and local capacity building including through bilateral economic and social assistance.
    • Capacity
    • Invest in Humanity
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Other

    Japan continues to provide support to enhance national and local capacity building including through bilateral economic and social assistance. For example, Japan has launched a long-term human resource development program, “Pacific-LEADS” to foster young leaders in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) in August 2016. Japan also announced to invest in human resource development for African countries at TICAD VI  held in Nairobi in August 2016 (e.g., training about 20,000 experts, policymakers and managers for measures against infectious diseases; vocational training for 50,000 people; and training on climate change countermeasures for 4,000 people, etc.)  A ministerial meeting was held in October 2018 to follow up on the outcome of TICAD VI.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Local action, Strengthening local systems, Youth

  • 5B
    Invest according to risk

    Individual Commitments (1)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Japan commits to strengthen measures to address displacement caused by natural disaster, climate change and public health emergency, through for example prior investment in disaster risk reduction, early warning, preparedness and implementation of "build back better" after a disaster occurs. Japan has provided support in countries including in the Asia-Pacific region and in Africa as well as through the Green Climate Fund.


    • Financial
    • Leave No One Behind Invest in Humanity

    Core Commitments (2)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to accelerate the reduction of disaster and climate-related risks through the coherent implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as other relevant strategies and programs of action, including the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
    • Commit to invest in risk management, preparedness and crisis prevention capacity to build the resilience of vulnerable and affected people.
    • Invest in Humanity
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Japan has provided support for disaster risk reduction, early warning, disaster preparedness, and measures against health emergency as well as climate change effects to address cross-border displacement caused by natural hazards, climate change and public health emergency. For example, Japan also continues to make contributions to related international organizations and funds such as ISDR, OCHA, WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergency, World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, the Green Climate Fund, etc. Also, Japan has supported “the Project for Strengthening Integrated Risk Governance Capacities and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia” in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

    Japan has continued to share information on the effectiveness of prior investment in disaster risk reduction and promote mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction in developing countries. Japan has also supported respective countries in reducing economic damages which is a common goal of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the SDGs.　Specifically, Japan has been contributing to realization of comprehensive disaster risk reduction through capacity development of national disaster risk reduction agencies. For example, Japan has been supporting the “Project for Strengthening the National Capacity of Earthquake Disaster Protection and Prevention in Mongolia since December 2016. Japan has also supported the “the Project for Strengthening Integrated Risk Governance Capacities and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia” in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Japan has also supported the “the Project for the Construction of Disaster-Resilient Emergency Mobile Network” in Bhutan.

     

    For more information, please see the attached document.

    Keywords

    Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement

  • 5D
    Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing

    Individual Commitments (3)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility

    • Japan commits to enhance better collaboration between humanitarian and development funding in order to diminish the needs.


    • Financial
    • Invest in Humanity
    • Japan commits to make use of various financial schemes to promote better disaster response and recovery. For example, Japan provided a Post Disaster Stand-by Loan to the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
    • Financial
    • Invest in Humanity
    • Japan commits to work on promoting and increasing the predictability and flexibility of humanitarian funding as well as on ensuring greater efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency thereof.
    • Financial
    • Invest in Humanity

    Core Commitments (2)

    • Commitment
    • Core Responsibility
    • Commit to enable coherent financing that avoids fragmentation by supporting collective outcomes over multiple years, supporting those with demonstrated comparative advantage to deliver in context.
    • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
    • Commit to broaden and adapt the global instruments and approaches to meet urgent needs, reduce risk and vulnerability and increase resilience, without adverse impact on humanitarian principles and overall action (as also proposed in Round Table on "Changing Lives").
    • Invest in Humanity
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.
    • Japan has advocated for and implemented concrete projects to strengthen humanitarian-development nexus by making use of various Official Development Assistance (ODA) schemes as well as enhancing partnership with both humanitarian and development actors.
    • Japan has been making use of various financial schemes to promote better disaster response and recovery.
    • Japan has been working on promoting and increasing the predictability and flexibility of humanitarian funding as well as on ensuring greater efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency thereof. Japan has been contributing to Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), which enhances financial readiness, flexibility and predictability for future humanitarian crisis.
    • In terms of transparency of funding and accountability, Japan continued to implement such measures as reporting its humanitarian assistance to the Financial Tracking Service and to OECD/DAC as well as publicizing ODA data in the IATI XML format, etc.

     

    For more information, please see the attached document.

  • 5E
    Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency

    Individual Commitments (4)

    • Commitment
    • Commitment Type
    • Core Responsibility
    • Japan commits to promote partnership with a broader range of stakeholders so as to widen and diversify the resource base for investing in humanity.
    • Partnership
    • Invest in Humanity

    • Japan commits to providing an assistance package of about US$ 6 billion for the Middle East region between 2016 and 2018 including human resource development programs for about 20,000 people. Furthermore, Japan will dispatch Japan Team for Refugees and Community (J-TRaC) to refugee camps by JICA and increase the number of Syrian students in Japan. Japan has also recently committed to contributing US$ 50 million and a maximum of US$ 900 million in yen loans over the next 5 years for the World Bank's new financing initiative to support the Middle East and North Africa.


    • Financial Contribution ()
    • Leave No One Behind Invest in Humanity

    • Japan commits to share good practices of bilateral cooperation.


    • Operational
    • Invest in Humanity
    • Japan endorses the commitments under the Grand Bargain.
    • Policy
    • Invest in Humanity
    1. A. Highlight concrete actions taken between 1 January – 31 December 2018 to implement the commitments which contribute to achieving this transformation. Be as specific as possible and include any relevant data/figures as well as any good practices and examples of innovation.

    Japan has been promoting partnership with a broader range of stakeholders so as to widen and diversify the resource base for investing in humanity.

    Japan has shared good practices of bilateral cooperation at various occasions as well as through media and social media, and has organized press tours for the local media, and prepared publicity materials for local people.

    Japan has actively participated to the Grand Bargain process and been serving as a co-convener of the Work Stream of “Reduce Duplication and Management Cost”.

    For more information, please see the attached document.

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