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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.
2B
Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Medair commits to continued adherence to the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence in our humanitarian action by having all staff know the core humanitarian principles and apply them in their daily work.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Medair commits to gender-based violence prevention and mitigation actions throughout its humanitarian actions and across its areas of operation by 2018.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- Medair commits to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law and refugee law, including unequivocal respect for, and accountability on, international law in crisis settings.
- Advocacy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- 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
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Medair commits to contributing to global efforts to mobilize states, civil society and global leaders to enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law and refugee law.
- Advocacy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
3A
Reduce and address displacement
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Medair commits to promote and support safe, dignified and durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees through the prioritisation of solutions that improve the self-reliance and resilience of IDPs and host communities, including using innovative and appropriate cash solutions that respond to their specific needs where it is present.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to promote and support safe, dignified and durable solutions for internally displaced persons and refugees. Commit to do so in a coherent and measurable manner through international, regional and national programs and by taking the necessary policy, legal and financial steps required for the specific contexts and in order to work towards a target of 50 percent reduction in internal displacement by 2030.
- Leave No One Behind
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Medair commits to fully comply with humanitarian policies, frameworks and legally binding documents related to gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- Medair commits to promoting and supporting actions so that all adolescent girls are linked to essential services and stand-alone programming that addresses their specific protection risks and empowers them to become involved in all community decision making that affects their lives.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
- Medair commits to promoting meaningful participation of women and adolescent girls in both formal and informal decision-making (from refugee camp committees to peace processes), with the goal of reaching parity with men and adolescent boys by 2030.
- Advocacy
- 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 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
3G
Address other groups or minorities in crisis settings
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Medair commits to the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, and reaffirms its determination to make humanitarian action inclusive of persons with disabilities, which means taking steps to meet their essential needs, promote their protection and safety, and respect for their dignity in situations of risk, in particular in situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Medair commits to building the knowledge and skills of its staff in protection, international humanitarian law and international human rights law, security and access negotiations, and conflict sensitive programming so that its humanitarian response actions make people safer, preserve their dignity and reduce their vulnerabilities.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Medair commits to collaborating with national and local actors to engage with communities as first responders, not simply as passive recipients of humanitarian assistance and protection. It commits to being accountable to these actors and the communities, including through promotion and membership of the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Medair commits to make innovative cash-based humanitarian assistance a priority approach, where appropriate, to enable people to exercise choice and be more self-reliant; and in doing so, to leverage digital payment, identification systems and strategic partnerships with business to more effectively track and monitor delivery and impact of its humanitarian assistance.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Medair commits to promoting and supporting actions so that women access cash assistance programmes equally throughout the humanitarian programme cycle by 2020.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Medair commits to consolidating available data in open and widely accessible databases, with appropriate security and privacy protection, to guide the efforts of all relevant actors and to inform joint analysis and a common understanding of the most pressing needs and risks.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Commit to improve the understanding, anticipation and preparedness for disaster and climate-related risks by investing in data, analysis and early warning, and developing evidence-based decision-making processes that result in early action.
- 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
Medair commits to the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation (GAHI) as a means for prioritising, scaling up and adopting innovative solutions as a central tenant of a new humanitarian business model.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need