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.
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- MasterCard commits to work in partnership with civil society to deliver more accountable, effective and beneficiary centered humanitarian action, with an emphasis on scaling up digital cash.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- MasterCard has committed to support the continuation of the Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) for two more years to build on its successful track record of private sector-humanitarian collaboration and to expand our impact even further to improve humanitarian aid delivery.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- MasterCard, in partnership with Mercy Corps, invite humanitarians and private sector actors to join the ELAN to help propel the industry forward in the appropriate use of payments technology in humanitarian settings.
- Partnership
- 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
4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- MasterCard commits to working in partnership to manage the challenges of a digital world, including issues around data management and protection, as the coordinator of a global, multi-year UN initiative on data and identity.
- Partnership
- 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
MasterCard commits to bringing innovative solutions and expertise to create transformative partnerships with humanitarian actors, trial and test new models to achieve scale, and identify best practices and risks in each context, such as with the launch of a new Humanitarian Aid Solutions platform.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency
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