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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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1B
Act early

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to make successful conflict prevention visible by capturing, consolidating and sharing good practices and lessons learnt.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to promote the humanitarian principles across different sectors from national to the community-level.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to adopt the IASC statement on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse at the individual agency level.
  • Policy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

Core Commitment

  • 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
  • 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

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

Core Commitment

  • 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

3A
Reduce and address displacement

Core Commitment

  • 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
  • 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

3D
Empower and protect women and girls

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • 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

3G
Address other groups or minorities in crisis settings

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness endorses the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.
  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind

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

Joint Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to continually promote and support capacity building among local stakeholders in our work on disaster preparedness and humanitarian emergency response.
  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Partners: Center for Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction Network-Philippines (DRRNetPhils), People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network (PDRRN), National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA), and Aksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima (AKKMA)

  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to adhere to the Principles of Partnership, emphasizing Equality, Transparency, Results Oriented Approach, Responsibility, and Complementarity, as introduced in the Global Humanitarian Platform in 2007.


  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Partners: Center for Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction Network-Philippines (DRRNetPhils), People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network (PDRRN), National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA), and Aksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima (AKKMA)
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to coordinate and partner with local stakeholders in broadest possible scale to promote synergy and avoid duplication and compartmentalization of initiatives, assistance and services.
  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Partners: Center for Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction Network-Philippines (DRRNetPhils), People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network (PDRRN), National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA), and Aksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima (AKKMA)
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to ensure and integrate organizational development and process support for local stakeholders to strengthen local voices and enhance social accountability in its humanitarian work.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Partners: Center for Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction Network-Philippines (DRRNetPhils), People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network (PDRRN), National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA), and Aksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima (AKKMA)

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to preparing vulnerable and marginalized communities to actively take part in humanitarian work and not simply be passive recipients
  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to establishing a common approach to providing information to affected people and collecting, aggregating and analysing feedback from communities to influence decision-making processes at strategic and operational levels.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to adopt the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard, with clear benchmarks for achieving these through the CHS Alliance self-assessment tool.
  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

Core Commitment

  • 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

4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

Joint Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to work with local stakeholders, especially community organizations, in its initiatives and actions on disaster preparedness, response and resilience.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Partners: Center for Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction Network-Philippines (DRRNetPhils), People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network (PDRRN), National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA), and Aksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima (AKKMA)

Core Commitment

  • 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

4C
Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides

Core Commitment

  • 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

5B
Invest according to risk

Core Commitment

  • 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

5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency

Joint Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to advocate increased direct funding from institutional donors and International NGOs for local NGOs and community organizations for humanitarian action. It also commits to promote local resource mobilization through local philanthropy and partnership with government, both in the national and local levels.
  • Advocacy
  • Invest in Humanity
Partners: Center for Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction Network-Philippines (DRRNetPhils), People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network (PDRRN), National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA), and Aksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima (AKKMA)

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Center for Disaster Preparedness commits to adopt the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard, with clear benchmarks for achieving these through the CHS Alliance self-assessment tool.
  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity