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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.
1A
Demonstrate timely, coherent and decisive political leadership
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ethiopia commits to reinforce its contributions to the resolution of conflicts in Africa by continuing to undertake peacemaking efforts in its sub-region and beyond within the framework of IGAD, AU and the UN.
- Operational
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
1B
Act early
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ethiopia commits to further enhance its engagement in conflict prevention by strengthening its conflict early warning and rapid response system at the local, national, sub-regional and regional levels in accordance with the IGAD's Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CEWARN) and AU's Continental Early Warning System (CEWS) objectives and strategies.
- Operational
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
1C
Remain engaged and invest in stability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ethiopia commits to further enhance its contribution to the post-conflict recovery, reconstruction and development efforts in Africa through its membership in the UN Peacebuilding Commission.
- Operational
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
- Ethiopia commits to further improve the skills and capacities of staff working on conflict analysis, prevention and resolution within the relevant organs at Federal and Regional States level, aiming to establish systems for preventing and resolving conflicts through regular and periodic training.
- Capacity
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
Ethiopia commits to strengthen its role in the maintenance of international and regional peace and security by continuing to enhance its contributions to both the UN and AU peacekeeping missions.
- Financial
- 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
- Ethiopia commits to further enhance the protection of civilians by strengthening its implementation and compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ethiopia commits to designate focal points in relevant government branches responsible for promoting respect for international humanitarian law.
- Operational
- 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
- Ethiopia commits to engage constructively in the intergovernmental process in relation to Resolution 2 of the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
- Partnership
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
3A
Reduce and address displacement
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ethiopia commits to continue promoting effective and strategic use of resettlement in third countries and other types of admission as tools to share the burden and responsibility of countries hosting large number of refugees.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
- Ethiopia commits to continue promoting the principle of international cooperation, burden sharing and international solidarity aimed at achieving the three durable solutions, repatriation, resettlement and local integration, in particular voluntary repatriation as the preferred solution in the majority of refugee situations.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
- Ethiopia commits to ratify the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) by 2019.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- Ethiopia will continue to implement its obligations under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1969 OAU/AU Convention on Status of Refugees in Africa with the support of the international community.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Ethiopia commits to continue convening periodic, inclusive platforms for dialogue with youth, women's groups and others with a view to promote public discourse at the Federal and Regional States level.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Ethiopia commits to further strengthen its implementation and compliance with existing gender equality norms enshrined under the relevant regional and international legal instruments which it has ratified.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Ethiopia commits to continue convening periodic, inclusive platforms for dialogue with youth, women's groups and others with a view to promote public discourse at the Federal and Regional States level.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Ethiopia commits to support the establishment of the African Humanitarian Agency in line with Assembly/AU/Dec.604 (XXVI) once an agreement is reached among African Union Member States regarding a framework governing the legal, financial and other aspects of the Agency.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Ethiopia recognizes that building the resilience of its people, ecosystems, and economic, social and political structures is critical for minimizing the various forms of damages and losses associated with disasters and climate-related risks. Hence, Ethiopia reaffirms its commitment to build a climate-resilient middle-income economy by 2025. Ethiopia in particular will improve the use of social protection schemes, including the existing Productive Safety Net Program, to effectively build the resilience of communities it supports. Ethiopia will also commit to make such schemes resilient to disasters. In all these, it will strengthen its participatory development process with a view to enhancing the full and effective participation of women. Ethiopia will improve the gender-responsiveness of its resilience-building and disaster response measures.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- While calling for those in a position to do so to support its efforts, Ethiopia reaffirms its national policy which underlies the imperative that external humanitarian assistance should be delivered in a manner that complements national and local efforts.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ethiopia commits to strengthen its capacity to generate, collect, and analyze data for better understanding, anticipation and preparedness for disaster and climate-related risks. To this effect, it will enhance its investment in modernizing and expanding its infrastructure, including meteorological and hydrological observation stations; in its education, training and research institutions; in its early warning and decision-making processes and institutions. It will continue to work with other countries and organizations in mobilizing resources and exchanging information.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Ethiopia recognizes that accelerated reduction of disaster and climate-related risks requires implementation of existing international cooperation and agreements. In this light, it reaffirms its commitment to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It will enhance its efforts to mainstream these into its national development planning and delivery apparatus. It also calls upon others to enhance implementation of these international agreements and partnerships.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Recognizing that management of disaster and climate-related risks requires multi-sector and multi-level engagement, Ethiopia commits to reinforce leadership and capacities at all levels and sectors of government. It will continue to strengthen the smooth coordination and collaboration at all levels and sectors of government through better flow of information and support. Ethiopia reaffirms to cooperatively work with all stakeholders. Ethiopia further commits to strengthen its multi-hazard and multi-sectoral early warning and response system to enhance preparedness and early and effective response.
- 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
- Ethiopia commits to further strengthen its efforts to eradicate poverty (one of the root causes of conflict) and bring about sustainable and inclusive development in the country.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need