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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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea commits to encourage the Secretary-General to use his prerogative under Article 99 of the Charter to brief the Security Council proactively on emerging issues.
  • Advocacy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Eritrea requests that the Secretary-General develop a comprehensive plan to strengthen conflict prevention at the United Nations based on lessons learnt and recommendations emanating from the Advisory Group of Experts on the 2015 Review of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, the Report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, and the Global Study on the implementation of resolution 1325, in time for the World Prevention Forum by 2020.
  • Policy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Eritrea will actively use early warning findings to identify, address and defuse critical risks before they deteriorate into intractable conflicts by using preventive diplomacy tools such as good offices, Peace and Development Advisors, groups of contact and mediation.
  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Eritrea will establish effective partnerships with the United Nations agencies, Arab League, Gulf Cooperation Council and European Union for planning and delivering on collective conflict prevention and resolutions strategies based on shared conflict analysis.
  • Partnership
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Eritrea will strengthen and if necessary, develop comprehensive, shared frameworks for conflict and risk analysis including early warning mechanisms at the local, national, regional and international level.
  • Policy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Eritrea will support the United Nations in convening a World Prevention Forum by 2020 to identify how Member States, the UN Secretariat, the Security Council and regional organizations can work more effectively together on conflict prevention and resolution.
  • Policy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

1C
Remain engaged and invest in stability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea will improve the skills of staff working on conflict analysis, prevention and resolution in national ministries, regional and international organizations by holding a minimum of 2 yearly targeted training commencing in 2018.
  • Capacity
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

1D
Develop solutions with and for people

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea commits to convene periodic, inclusive national dialogue platforms with civil society, youth, womens groups and others to ensure concerns and disputes are addressed early on, with a minimum of 3 meetings per year, commencing in 2018.
  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Eritrea will invest in strengthening its civil society organizations including women and youth groups, as well as sub-regional and regional organizations in which it is a member - African Union, Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) - to work on conflict analysis, prevention and resolution by sharing experiences and organizing workshops.
  • Partnership
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

2A
Respect and protect civilians and civilian objects in the conduct of hostilities

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea commits to support humanitarian mine action programs aimed at clearing explosive remnants of war (ERW) through providing information and technical, financial and material assistance to locate, remove, destroy and otherwise render ineffective any type of explosive hazard.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea commits to ensuring that all humanitarian response activities have the aim of making people safer, preserving their dignity and reducing vulnerabilities by making humanitarian leadership accountable for pursuing protection outcomes, building the skills of staff according to their duties in areas such as protection, international humanitarian law and international human rights law, negotiations with parties, security and access, internal policies, conflict sensitivity, improving the safety and security of relief personnel by building trust with armed groups and local actors, and adhering to humanitarian principles.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Eritrea commits to integrating humanitarian principles in their humanitarian policy frameworks.
  • Policy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Eritrea commits to take specific measures to bring to account actors who impede humanitarian access to civilians.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Eritrea will adopt clear, simple and expedited procedures to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief by 2017.
  • Policy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Eritrea will review domestic legislation and its implementation to ensure that it is consistent with the obligation to respect and protect health care personnel, their means of transport and facilities, as well as humanitarian workers and objects used for humanitarian relief operations against attack by 2019.
  • Policy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Eritrea will train armed forces to respect the obligation to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief by 2017.
  • Training
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Eritrea will train the military on the applicable legal framework for the protection of health care as well as ethical duties of health care personnel by 2017.
  • Training
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

2C
Speak out on violations

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea commits to record, track and analyzes civilian casualties in the conduct of their military operations and adapts their conduct accordingly in order to minimize civilian harm.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea commits to actively focus on promoting and protecting all human rights for all to promote an inclusive and stable society.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

  • Eritrea commits to comply with and submit to monitoring to ensure women and girls are equally protected under international humanitarian law and receive medical care without adverse distinction as the "wounded or sick", by 2018.


  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea commits to designate focal points in relevant government branches responsible for promoting respect for international humanitarian, human rights and refugee law through diplomatic, economic and military relations.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Eritrea commits to developing and implementing strategies for the engagement of men and boys as part of the solution to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in crisis settings by 2018.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Eritrea commits to enact and implement national legislation outlawing all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and ensuring the right of victims/survivors to an effective remedy.
  • Policy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • Eritrea commits to become a party to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplemental to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and promote universal adherence to it.


  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea commits to engage constructively in the intergovernmental process as set out in Resolution 2 of the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 2015, to find agreement on features and functions of a potential forum of States and ways to enhance the implementation of IHL using the potential of the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and IHL regional forums.
  • Partnership
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

  • Eritrea commits to host a meeting on youth and humanitarian action with a view to improving dissemination and implementation of international humanitarian and human rights law in 2018.


  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea will join global campaign to mobilize States, civil society and global leaders to enhance respect for international humanitarian, human rights and refugee law.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

3A
Reduce and address displacement

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea will develop or support the development of national policies and capacities for the protection of IDPs and refugees, by integration into national social safety nets, education programmes, labor markets, development plans by 2018, in a way which leverages the varying levels of capacity, indigenous and traditional knowledge, and resources embedded in communities.
  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea will ensure refugee legal rights to a secure stay in host countries, including through adequate, safe and dignified reception conditions and robust registration.
  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea will expand the social and economic opportunities for refugees to access education at all levels, health care and other services livelihoods and labour markets etc, without discrimination, and in a manner which also supports host communities.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • Eritrea will integrate refugees and IDPs into national development plans, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, by 2017.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea will put in place additional and expedited pathways for admission of refugees, including resettlement and humanitarian admission, family reunification, private sponsorship, labour mobility and educational opportunities.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea will work to address the causes of internal displacement, and to support the voluntary return home in safety and dignity, local integration or settlement elsewhere if needed.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

3D
Empower and protect women and girls

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • Eritrea commits to comply with and submit to monitoring to ensure women and girls are equally protected under international humanitarian law and receive medical care without adverse distinction as the "wounded or sick", by 2018.


  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea commits to ensure national accountability mechanisms to monitor the extent to which gender equality and women's empowerment is implemented in crisis settings
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea commits to increasing current levels of funding to women's groups, including organizations of women with disabilities and adolescent girl networks and women's machineries.
  • Financial
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Eritrea will systematize Gender and Gender Based Violence (GBV) risk analysis in conflict analysis including the use of community and women informed local early warning mechanisms to identify and defuse conflicts early.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea will provide access to quality education, at all levels, to all internally displace and refugee children and youth within three months of displacement.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

3F
Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • Eritrea commits to host a meeting on youth and humanitarian action with a view to improving dissemination and implementation of international humanitarian and human rights law in 2018.


  • Operational
  • 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

  • Eritrea commits to become a party to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplemental to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and promote universal adherence to it.


  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea commits to ensuring that women access equally cash assistance programmes, sustainable and dignified livelihoods, vocational and skills training opportunities throughout humanitarian programme cycle by 2020.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • Eritrea commits to develop or reinforce domestic rules, procedures and institutional arrangements for facilitating and regulating international disaster assistance.


  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Eritrea commits to create national preparedness strategies and partnerships to strengthen national and local emergency management systems for natural disasters, which include: inclusive contingency plans for response and recovery that set out clear lines of responsibility, triggers for early action, and pre-committed finance; and include, when regional and global support is required, in what form and how it will be coordinated; identification of populations at risk of displacement, and evacuation corridors and sites; long-term investment in national and local preparedness, response and recovery capacities capable of responding to natural hazards, including civil protection, social protection, basic services, agriculture and other systems.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • Eritrea commits to establish early warning systems with thresholds to trigger urban response protocols for city-level analysis, including urban housing analysis to ensure depiction of affected urban households.


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

  • Eritrea commits to make the private sector an integral part of all natural disaster response and recovery planning, and to promote business continuity.


  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Eritrea commits to strengthen measures to prevent and avoid disaster-induced displacement by integrating this risk into climate change adaptation and disaster risk management strategies.
  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Eritrea commits to take a more systematic and integrated approach to risk management through measures that better integrate planning in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, response and recovery, and through closer collaboration between different sectors and partners, so that investments in each are complementary, and based on a common analysis of risk and costs.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

4C
Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • Eritrea commit to promote lessons learned, best practice and evidence based innovation through the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation.


  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Eritrea commits to strengthening the mechanisms for coordination at country level and globally to maximize policy coherence.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Eritrea commits to support the UN Resident Coordinator's leadership on the coordination of international engagement and to mobilize resources to support the delivery of collective outcomes.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

5B
Invest according to risk

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Eritrea commits to increasing funding for disaster risk reduction and preparedness activities and to do this in a coherent way from multiple sources, including enhanced domestic resource mobilization and private sector investment, and higher proportions of development and climate adaptation finance, such as the Green Climate Fund.
  • Financial
  • Invest in Humanity

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Recognizing that, within a country context, humanitarian, development, peace building, stabilization and climate finance should be more coherent, Eritrea commits to removing the internal institutional barriers between humanitarian and development finance, both in headquarters and at country level, in order to mobilize the right mix of humanitarian and development finance.
  • Financial
  • Invest in Humanity