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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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1D
Develop solutions with and for people

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • KCOC will actively participate in coordination and cooperation with national, regional, and global networks and platforms of civil societies for prevention, preparedness, analysis and resolution of crises and conflicts.
  • Partnership
  • 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
  • KCOC will continue to promote humanitarian principles and humanitarian standards such as Sphere Standards, Core Humanitarian Standards, by dissemination and provision of trainings for Korean actors and partners involved in humanitarian assistance .
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • KCOC will advocate that the State (Korea) reaffirms its respect for and compliance with the humanitarian principles, international humanitarian law, human rights law, treaties on refugees and IDPs, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts and the Good Humanitarian Donorship principles.
  • Advocacy
  • 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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • KCOC will support our partners to ensure that the needs of host communities are assessed along with IDPs/refugees and properly addressed in humanitarian programming and the programs are aimed to strengthen self-reliance and resilience of refugees/IDPs as well as local host communities.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

3D
Empower and protect women and girls

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • KCOC will support its partners to ensure that humanitarian programming is gender-mainstreamed and gender-responsive by providing guidelines and trainings on using the IASC Gender-Marker Commitment.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

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

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • KCOC commits to respect and support local and national leadership and capacity through networked preparedness and response, acknowledging their central role as frontline responders in disaster management cycle, and to increasingly strengthen its partnership with local, national, regional and global CSO networks reaffirming with the Principles of Partnership.
  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • KCOC will advocate for distinctive mandates of humanitarian organizations from other actors with political, military, business mandates and continue our efforts to hold ourselves accountable for humanitarian principles, humanitarian standards and the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations in Disaster Relief.
  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • KCOC will advocate for the Principles of Partnership to be endorsed and respected by the State, donor agencies, civil societies, private sectors and other partners in Korea in the practice of all humanitarian partnership arrangements so that all actors engaged in humanitarian action are mutually respected as equal partners.
  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • With recognition on the importance of cash programming in strengthening resilience of disaster affected communities and their people, KCOC will provide capacity building program on cash intervention and advocate for the use of cash in humanitarian programming.
  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • KCOC continues to call upon the State (Korea) to support the implementation of the 1994 Guidelines on the Use of Military and Civil Defense Assets in Disaster Relief and the 2003 Guidelines on the Use of Military and Civil Defense Assets to Support United Nations Humanitarian Activities in Complex Emergencies.


  • Advocacy
  • 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
  • KCOC will continue to strengthen capacity of partner organizations and their staff in emergency preparedness, response and linking with longer-term development, and promote quality and accountability of the humanitarian programmes by providing organizational support and capacity development.
  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • KCOC will advocate that donors substantially increase the opportunity and the percentage of humanitarian funding channeled through NGOs, as well as establish a multi-year funding mechanism that ensures predictability, flexibility, availability and accessibility, with respect for NGOs complementary roles in development and humanitarian assistance.
  • Advocacy
  • Invest in Humanity

5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • KCOC will continue to advocate to the State(Korea) for allocating humanitarian budget up to 6% of ODA and 1% of ODA for Disaster Risk Reduction by 2020 with clear roadmap to implement the Government's ODA policy and strategy .
  • Advocacy
  • Invest in Humanity