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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.
2A
Respect and protect civilians and civilian objects in the conduct of hostilities
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to promote and enhance the protection of civilians and civilian objects, especially in the conduct of hostilities, for instance by working to prevent civilian harm resulting from the use of wide-area explosive weapons in populated areas, and by sparing civilian infrastructure from military use in the conduct of military operations.
- 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
- IPPF commits to improve its operational practices to increase protection in the delivery of humanitarian assistance towards health care workers by December 2020.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
Core Commitment
- 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
2C
Speak out on violations
Core Commitment
- 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
2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- IPPF commits that all its Member Associations implement GBV and/or gender equality interventions in crisis settings based on assessment and planning processes by December 2020.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- IPPF commits to advocate at the global, regional and national levels to contribute to hundreds of legislation wins outlawing child marriage, sexual gender based violence (SGBV), and female genital mutilation (FGM) by December 2020.
- Advocacy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- IPPF commits to comply with existing gender equality norms enshrined in international legal frameworks governing conflicts, including the Geneva Conventions and its Additional Protocols.
- Policy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- IPPF commits to deploy its regional and local GBV experts within 72 hours of a L3 emergency response by 2020.
- Capacity
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- IPPF commits to develop a minimal sexuality education programme that is responsive to the needs of people living in crisis settings, recognizing the additional risks of early marriage and sexual violence by December 2018.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- IPPF commits to develop and agree secretariat-wide guidelines, to drive action and accountability on GBV and gender equality, in humanitarian service delivery by December 2017.
- Policy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- IPPF commits to developing and implementing interventions engaging men, boys and communities as part of the solution to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in crisis settings by 2020.
- Operational
- 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
- 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
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
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- IPPF commits to actively participate in all Inter-agency Working Group Advocacy sub-working groups.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to adapt Integrated Package of Essential Services (IPES) for mobile and outreach services by December 2022.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to adapt the Integrated Package of Essential Services for mobile and outreach services by December 2022.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to advocate for governments to include sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) from the onset of a crisis
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to continuously hold national governments accountable for delivering on international agreements relating to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to continuously track sexual and reproductive health and rights indicators in fragile states.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to deliver tens of millions SRHR information and services in conflict and emergency situations, applying a human rights approach, by December 2022.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to deliver tens of millions to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights information and services in conflict and emergency situations by December 2022, using a rights based approach. The latter means that all services are free of any forms of discrimination based on sex, sexuality or gender.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to deploy Minimum Initial Service Package (and surge capacity as required), through its local member associations and partners, within 72 hours from a crises, by December 2020.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to deploy within 72 hours and deliver tens of millions of gender-sensitive life-saving and life-changing SRH services in crisis settings
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to develop a Gender Strategy in Humanitarian Settings by 2020.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to enable tens of millions people to act in response to positive SRHR messages by December 2022.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to increase its funding in emergency situations to its local member associations to reach US$ 30 million USD per year by 2020. Most of these funds will be directed towards programmes/projects that target women, girls and boys particularly in fragile situations and in complex emergencies.
- Financial
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to join or establish a cross agency interest group on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Emergencies (SRHRiE) as well as develop, agree, implement and monitor an advocacy action plan by December 2020.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to provide tailored trainings and advocacy to relevant national institutions (ministries of defence), armed forces and military officials on basic sexual and reproductive health service delivery, distribution of reproductive health kits and referral/linkages to nearby health units.
- Training
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to strengthen partnerships and work with hundreds regional, national and local youth networks as well as women's groups, to foster female and young advocates.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to support youth and women's leadership, in the advocacy for sexual and reproductive rights and gender equality, through tailored trainings and mentoring as well as coordinating and maximising advocacy opportunities.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
- IPPF commits to work with UN agencies and other key stakeholders in SRHR to develop, pilot, and roll out a service package tailored to national and international crises.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Core Commitment
- 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
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- IPPF commits to create a dedicated humanitarian department in Bangkok, Thailand (as a Central Office Department) with sub-hubs in the Pacific (Fiji or PNG), Arab World (Tunis) and Africa (Nairobi) to provide tailored technical and financial support to local Member Associations involved in humanitarian response by December 2016
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to increase substantially and diversify global support and share of resources for humanitarian assistance aimed to address the differentiated needs of populations affected by humanitarian crises in fragile situations and complex emergencies, including increasing cash-based programming in situations where relevant.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
- Commit to empower national and local humanitarian action by increasing the share of financing accessible to local and national humanitarian actors and supporting the enhancement of their national delivery systems, capacities and preparedness planning.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- IPPF commits to direct technical and core financial resources in disaster risk reduction processes using right based approaches. Working with communities it will seek to address root causes of vulnerability, particularly with regards to women and girls in fragile states.
- Financial
- 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
- IPPF commits to conduct rapid assessments to include damage to clinics, staff, and commodities and the client needs (women, youth, girls) during an emergency.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- IPPF commits to enhance preparedness planning in high risk countries with a ready-to-deploy surge capacity in 72 hours, wherever needed by December 2020.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
IPPF commits to implement a comprehensive programme of evidence to action combining best practice and internal learning by 2020.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- IPPF commits to include technical advisers (gender and youth) as part of its Humanitarian Emergency Response Team by December 2018.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
5A
Invest in local capacities
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- IPPF commits to build capacities of its local member associations to establish and enforce relationships with national and international donors in their country.
- Capacity
- Invest in Humanity
- IPPF commits to train regional and local programme staff to build field level donor relationships and design donor responsive humanitarian programmes.
- Training
- Invest in Humanity
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to empower national and local humanitarian action by increasing the share of financing accessible to local and national humanitarian actors and supporting the enhancement of their national delivery systems, capacities and preparedness planning.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
5B
Invest according to risk
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to invest in risk management, preparedness and crisis prevention capacity to build the resilience of vulnerable and affected people.
- Invest in Humanity
5D
Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
IPPF commits to build dedicated resource mobilization capacity in humanitarian funding streams by 2020. This will be done through increased capacities in staff, that focuses on core funding application, as well as by creating a business development team that will undertake restricted bid submissions.
- Capacity
- Invest in Humanity
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to promote and increase predictable, multi-year, unearmarked, collaborative and flexible humanitarian funding toward greater efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of humanitarian action for affected people.
- 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
5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- IPPF commits to an emergency reserve fund to respond immediately when an emergency arises.
- Financial
- Invest in Humanity
- IPPF commits to develop and agree on a monitoring and evaluation framework for crisis settings and embed in service statistics and global indicators, to drive allocation of funds, by 2020.
- Operational
- Invest in Humanity
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to increase substantially and diversify global support and share of resources for humanitarian assistance aimed to address the differentiated needs of populations affected by humanitarian crises in fragile situations and complex emergencies, including increasing cash-based programming in situations where relevant.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
- Commit to promote and increase predictable, multi-year, unearmarked, collaborative and flexible humanitarian funding toward greater efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of humanitarian action for affected people.
- Invest in Humanity