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.
3A
Reduce and address displacement
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Mynamar commits to strengthen measures to prevent and avoid disaster-induced displacement by integrating this risk into climate change adaptation and disaster risk management strategies.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Myanmar commits to continue and tailor to crisis settings their support to the implementation of the targets for the 2030 Agenda on maternal, newborn and adolescent health to ensure safe delivery, emergency obstetric, ante natal and post-natal services in crisis settings, improved access to information on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, emergency contraceptive services, voluntary family planning, and basic items for safe delivery and sanitary supplies, necessary medical and psychological services for SGBV survivors as well as improved capacity of health systems and workers with immediate effect.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Myanmar commits to implementing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services as soon as possible after an emergency, by 2017.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Myanmar commits to joining the Secretary General's Every Woman Every Child Everywhere (EWECE) initiative and corresponding roadmap, by 2017, to work to end all preventable deaths of women and adolescent girls in crisis settings.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind
Myanmar commits to rolling out the Minimum Initial Services Package (MISP) within 48 hours of an emergency, by 2017.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Myanmar commits to providing support to national and local leadership to ensure that longer-term, collective programming incorporates gender equality analysis and concrete steps to empower women and girls.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Myanmar commits to systematically collect, analyze and use data disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant factors and incorporate a gender analysis when developing, implementing and monitoring disaster risk reduction and management programs.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- 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
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to reinforce national and local leadership and capacities in managing disaster and climate-related risks through strengthened preparedness and predictable response and recovery arrangements.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Myanmar commits to develop or reinforce domestic rules, procedures and institutional arrangements for facilitating and regulating international disaster assistance.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Myanmar commits to achieve the Sendai Framework target to increase people's access to multi-hazard early warning systems, and disaster risk information and assessments by 2030, including through initiatives, such as the Climate Risk Early Warning Systems.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Myanmar commits to agree on actions that should be undertaken, within defined timelines, once a heightened risk of an El Niño or La Niña event is confirmed.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Myanmar commits to consolidate data in open and accessible databases to guide the efforts of actors nationally, regionally and globally, and generate common analysis of the most pressing risks.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Myanmar commits to create and support private sector-led local, national and industry specific networks, as part of the Connecting Business Initiative, to facilitate their coordinated engagement in risk and crisis management.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Myanmar commits to enhance countries' preparedness, and accelerate this initially in twenty of the most at-risk countries, so they reach a minimum level of readiness by 2020.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Myanmar commits to ensure all critical infrastructure investments are risk informed, and aligned with national preparedness planning and policies.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Myanmar commits to invest in national early warning capacity in a disciplined manner that leverages global and regional support structures, is cost effective, reaches the last mile, and engages the private sector.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Myanmar commits to systematically collect, analyze and use data disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant factors and incorporate a gender analysis when developing, implementing and monitoring disaster risk reduction and management programs.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Mynamar commits to assess the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to dominant risks and strengthen it to allow rapid and effective response and recovery, and the opportunity to "build back better".
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Mynamar commits to create national preparedness strategies and/or partnerships to strengthen national and local emergency management systems for natural disasters, which include: a) inclusive contingency plans for response and recovery that set out clear lines of responsibility, triggers for early action, and pre-committed finance; and include, when regional and global support is required, in what form and how it will be coordinated; b) identification of populations at risk of displacement, and evacuation corridors and sites; c) long-term investment in national and local preparedness, response and recovery capacities capable of responding to natural hazards, including civil protection, social protection, basic services, agriculture and other systems.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Mynamar commits to make freely available global earth observations and forecasts needed to help protect lives through better informed disaster early warning, response and recovery planning.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Mynamar commits to make the private sector an integral part of all natural disaster response and recovery planning, and to promote business continuity.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Mynamar commits to take a more systematic and integrated approach to risk management through measures that better integrate planning in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, response and recovery, and through closer collaboration between different sectors and partners, so that investments in each are complementary, and based on a common analysis of risk and costs.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to accelerate the reduction of disaster and climate-related risks through the coherent implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as other relevant strategies and programs of action, including the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
- 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
Myanmar commits to consolidate data in open and accessible databases to guide the efforts of actors nationally, regionally and globally, and generate common analysis of the most pressing risks.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Mynamar commits to assess the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to dominant risks and strengthen it to allow rapid and effective response and recovery, and the opportunity to "build back better".
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
5B
Invest according to risk
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Myanmar commits to develop a program of action to increase the knowledge and confidence in risk financing, including how it links to disaster risk reduction, preparedness and response.
- Financial
- Invest in Humanity
- Myanmar commits to help develop or scale up risk financing, and new instruments, such as contingent financing and insurance-based products for lower income countries, as well as schemes that reach and benefit the poorest and most vulnerable people, such as micro insurance.
- Financial
- Invest in Humanity
Myanmar commits to increasing funding for disaster risk reduction and preparedness activities and to do this in a coherent way from multiple sources, including enhanced domestic resource mobilization and private sector investment, and higher proportions of development and climate adaptation finance.
- Financial
- Invest in Humanity
- Myanmar commits to re-allocate or re-prioritize existing funds to support resilience-building and risk mitigation efforts in response to early warning.
- Financial
- Invest in Humanity
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to accelerate the reduction of disaster and climate-related risks through the coherent implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as other relevant strategies and programs of action, including the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity