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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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1A
Demonstrate timely, coherent and decisive political leadership

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

1B
Act early

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to enhancing its use of early warning findings in order to defuse critical situations before they deteriorate into intractable conflicts through early engagement with countries at risk of conflict, regional partners and other relevant regional and sub regional organizations. It commits to intensifying its efforts on conflict analysis paying particular attention to the most vulnerable segments of society.
  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to strengthening and increasing the use of the good offices of the OIC Secretary General and other available mechanisms, including through the efforts of the special envoys of the Secretary General of the OIC, during emerging conflicts. The OIC Secretariat will endeavor to contribute constructively, whenever possible, in the implementation of peace agreements and other outcomes of mediation processes.
  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • The OIC Secretariat will intensify its cooperation with the United Nations to identify how Member States, the Security Council and regional organizations can work together more effectively on conflict prevention and resolution and is ready to consider convening joint activities on conflict prevention to identify and advance successful approaches of conflict prevention.
  • Partnership
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to act early upon potential conflict situations based on early warning findings and shared conflict analysis, in accordance with international law.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Commit to make successful conflict prevention visible by capturing, consolidating and sharing good practices and lessons learnt.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

1C
Remain engaged and invest in stability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to increasing the technical capacity of its staff working on conflict analysis, prevention and resolution.
  • Capacity
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • The OIC Secretariat will support cooperation between countries to promote peace, tolerance, mutual understanding and will urge its Member States to increase the assistance provided to fragile situations, protracted conflicts and forgotten crises to help consolidate peace among different segments in fragile societies.
  • Partnership
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to improve prevention and peaceful resolution capacities at the national, regional and international level improving the ability to work on multiple crises simultaneously.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Commit to sustain political leadership and engagement through all stages of a crisis to prevent the emergence or relapse into conflict.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
  • Commit to address root causes of conflict and work to reduce fragility by investing in the development of inclusive, peaceful societies.
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

1D
Develop solutions with and for people

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to strengthening existing and establishing effective partnerships with international, regional, and local actors to advance collective conflict prevention and resolution strategies and joint efforts.
  • Partnership
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to support, as appropriate, inclusive national dialogue platforms with civil society, youth, women's groups and others to ensure that disputes are addressed at an early stage and in an effective manner.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to executing peace-building initiatives in the form of human and physical infrastructure development, trade promotion, trade financing and trade facilitation, increased productivity and investment in agriculture, agro-business and regional food security reserves, as well as an expanded OIC-wide market, aimed at realization of intra-OIC trade target of 25% by 2025.
  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

2A
Respect and protect civilians and civilian objects in the conduct of hostilities

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States to support humanitarian mine action programs aimed at clearing explosive remnants of war (ERW) and to support public information campaigns, education, training and liaison with communities to warn affected populations of the risks posed by landmines.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

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

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to continuing to promote the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence in humanitarian action in the context of its cooperation and plan of action with ICRC and in cooperation with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and it commits to continue to integrate these principles in its humanitarian policy frameworks.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to continuing to urge its Member States and partners to take effective measures to ensure the protection of the delivery of humanitarian assistance and health care, humanitarian relief workers and health facilities.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to do its utmost to ensure that humanitarian action is de-politicized and that governments and other parties to conflicts, including armed groups, meet their obligations in accordance with IHL in particular with respect to the conduct of military action and the facilitation of unimpeded access of humanitarian assistance and humanitarian workers to affected people. This objective is of growing importance in light of the increasing scale and severity of attacks against civilians in conflicts, particularly in the Middle East. The OIC Secretariat will encourage its Member States to consider ratifying international instruments pertaining to the protection of civilians, bringing relevant national legislation into conformity with international obligations of Member States, providing IHL training for the armed forces and the police, as well as other relevant officials, and holding perpetrators of IHL violations accountable through effective mechanisms.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to ensuring that its humanitarian response has the aim of saving lives, alleviating suffering and making people safer, preserving dignity and reducing vulnerabilities through effective leadership, building the skills of staff, improving the safety and security of relief personnel by working with parties to the conflict and local actors, and adhering to IHL and humanitarian principles.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to facilitating experience sharing on challenges facing civil society organizations and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Member States in adhering to humanitarian principles.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States that have not done so to adopt clear, expedited and simplified procedures to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

  • The OIC Secretariat will continue to urge its partners to review counter-terrorism laws and policies that impede humanitarian action and examine how impartial humanitarian actors can be supported in their effort to operate in areas controlled by proscribed non-state armed groups. It will continue to raise awareness about this issue in international fora and cooperate with its partners in civil society in this regard.


  • Advocacy
  • 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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to supporting strategies for the engagement of men and boys as part of the solution to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in crisis settings.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States to enact and implement national legislation outlawing all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and ensuring the right of victims and survivors to an effective remedy.
  • 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
  • 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

Joint Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to continue convening an annual meeting on issues pertaining to the respect of IHL in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with a view to increasing awareness and implementation of IHL obligations.
  • Partnership
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
Partners: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), ICRC

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States that have not done so, to establish a National Committee for the implementation of IHL obligations in accordance with the resolution of the 26th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 1995.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States to continue to engage constructively in the intergovernmental process as set out in resolution 2 of the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 2015, "to find agreement on features and functions of a potential forum of States and ways to enhance the implementation of IHL using the potential of the International Conference [of the Red Cross and Red Crescent] and IHL regional forums."


  • Partnership
  • 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

3A
Reduce and address displacement

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to continue advocating for increased burden-sharing and equitable hosting of refugees by the international community. The OIC Secretariat will further call on the international community to assist countries and communities hosting large numbers of refugees or facing huge displacement challenges to ensure that refugees and IDPs receive the necessary assistance.
  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to encouraging innovative approaches to promoting, wherever this is possible, greater self-reliance of refugees and IDPs, through income generation schemes and training. It will support and coordinate with local civil society partners to enable them to play a greater role in the response to humanitarian needs of refugees and IDPs.
  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to working with its Member States and other partners to assist Member States to develop contingency plans that identify transboundary disaster displacement risk scenarios to prevent disaster-induced displacement by integrating this risk into climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat will carry on a consultative process among its Member States to develop a legal framework to address the situation and requirements of those forcibly displaced. It will promote the Islamic asylum protection system that is consistent with the international protection mechanism for refugees and asylum seekers and the principle of non-refoulement.
  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat will collaborate with the international community in finding durable solutions for refugees and IDPs and will support the voluntary return of those displaced in safety and dignity, or their local integration or settlement elsewhere if possible and feasible. It will also support solutions that improve the self-reliance and resilience of IDPs, refugees and host communities.
  • Partnership
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat will strengthen its ability to identify and address the roots of conflict triggering forced displacement, as early as possible, and take rapid action to prevent situations from deteriorating.
  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat will urge its Member States to ensure that the legal rights of refugees are respected in accordance with their international obligations.
  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat will urge its Member States to integrate refugees and IDPs into national development plans, in line with the core objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development within a specific timeframe. It will support the development of national legislation, policies, and strategies for the protection of IDPs and refugees in cooperation with UNHCR, IOM, UNDP and other humanitarian and development agencies.
  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to a new approach to addressing forced displacement that not only meets immediate humanitarian needs but reduces vulnerability and improves the resilience, self-reliance and protection of refugees and IDPs. Commit to implementing this new approach through coherent international, regional and national efforts that recognize both the humanitarian and development challenges of displacement. Commit to take the necessary political, policy, legal and financial steps required to address these challenges for the specific context.
  • Leave No One Behind
  • 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
  • Acknowledge the global public good provided by countries and communities which are hosting large numbers of refugees. Commit to providing communities with large numbers of displaced population or receiving large numbers of returnees with the necessary political, policy and financial, support to address the humanitarian and socio-economic impact. To this end, commit to strengthen multilateral financing instruments. Commit to foster host communities' self-reliance and resilience, as part of the comprehensive and integrated approach outlined in core commitment 1.
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Commit to collectively work towards a Global Compact on responsibility-sharing for refugees to safeguard the rights of refugees, while also effectively and predictably supporting States affected by such movements.
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Commit to actively work to uphold the institution of asylum and the principle of non-refoulement. Commit to support further accession to and strengthened implementation of national, regional and international laws and policy frameworks that ensure and improve the protection of refugees and IDPs, such as the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol or the AU Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala convention) or the Guiding Principles on internal displacement.
  • Leave No One Behind

3B
Address the vulnerabilities of migrants and provide more regular and lawful opportunities for migration

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

3C
End statelessness in the next decade

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

3D
Empower and protect women and girls

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC has established and adopted a Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women (OPAAW) that contains the vision of its Member States on the objectives and measures needed for the advancement of women as well as means of achieving these objectives. The Plan takes into account the Millennium Development Goals and the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Efforts are underway by the OIC Secretariat to implement the Plan of Action and to encourage Member States to ratify the statute for the OIC Women Development Organization.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to contributing to efforts aiming at ensuring that adolescent girls are linked to essential services and programs that address their specific protection risks and empowers them to become involved in community decision-making that affects their lives.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to facilitating increased numbers of women's groups with capacity building and mentoring support. It also commits to providing women's groups, in cooperation with Member States and other partners, with capacity building to increase their ability to deliver in humanitarian settings, as well as benefiting from the experience of women's groups to ensure that programming meets the needs of women and girls and meaningfully involve them in program design, delivery, and monitoring.


  • Capacity
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to implementing its humanitarian programs in a gender responsive manner.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to intensifying efforts to address the psychological impact of violent conflict and protracted displacement in its humanitarian activities, in particular for women and children.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to support, as appropriate, inclusive national dialogue platforms with civil society, youth, women's groups and others to ensure that disputes are addressed at an early stage and in an effective manner.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to supporting 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 sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) survivors as well as improved capacity of health systems and workers.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States that have not done so, to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and consider ratifying the optional protocol.
  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States to comply with their gender-related obligations enshrined in international legal frameworks governing conflicts, including the Geneva Conventions, its Additional Protocols, customary international law as well as international refugee law including through national accountability mechanisms to monitor the extent to which gender related obligations are implemented in crisis settings.
  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind

  • The OIC secretariat commits to urging its Member States to ensure that women equally access health care and cash assistance programs, sustainable and dignified livelihood opportunities, and vocational and skills training opportunities.


  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

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

3E
Eliminate gaps in education for children, adolescents and young people

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

3F
Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to support, as appropriate, inclusive national dialogue platforms with civil society, youth, women's groups and others to ensure that disputes are addressed at an early stage and in an effective manner.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind

3G
Address other groups or minorities in crisis settings

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • As Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies staff and volunteers, local humanitarian NGOs as well as local governments form the frontline of humanitarian response, the OIC Secretariat commits to promoting their role and the role of other local actors at the international level and in the media to raise awareness of their role and efforts to the public at large.
  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to deepening its cooperation with its partners including the US, the EU and its Member States, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Japan and others; the UN and its specialized agencies, the ICRC, the IFRC; regional organizations including in the context of the Regional Organizations Humanitarian Assistance Network (ROHAN); and international, regional and local NGOs and their networks, the private sector, philanthropists, youth and academia.


  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to promoting lessons learned, best practice and innovation among its Member States and civil society partners through its various humanitarian activities.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to supporting context specific capacity-building programs for national and local leadership in natural disaster preparedness and response, particularly in its vulnerable Member States, and to urging international partners to utilize national mechanisms as the default coordination mechanism and to ensure that assistance is targeted at filling gaps so that these mechanisms are empowered to play a leading role in crisis response.


  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to supporting the capacity building of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies of OIC Member States and local NGOs in early warning, response and recovery. This effort will focus on developing effective governance structures, supporting the development of national and regional networks of front-line responders, establishing a research and training center. It commits, through its contacts with donors and other partners, to striving to ensure that national and local organizations, who are frontline responders, directly access and receive a greater portion of humanitarian funding and remove the multiple levels of sub-contracting and intermediaries.
  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC secretariat commits to urging its Member States to ensure that women equally access health care and cash assistance programs, sustainable and dignified livelihood opportunities, and vocational and skills training opportunities.


  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to implementing post-recovery socio-economic development programmes, through scaling up its micro-finance support, youth and women empowerment, agriculture and rural development, labour, social protection, entrepreneurship and development of Islamic social finance.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat will endeavor to connect the feedback of those receiving humanitarian assistance as well as affected local communities in its strategic decision-making processes.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat will work with its Member States to ensure that, whenever possible, cash is considered alongside other response modalities throughout humanitarian response efforts.
  • 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 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
  • Commit to increase investment in building community resilience as a critical first line of response, with the full and effective participation of women.
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Commit to ensure regional and global humanitarian assistance for natural disasters complements national and local efforts.
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • 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

Joint Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to cooperating with the IFRC in a coalition that aims at strengthening the resilience of 1 billion people by 2025.
  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Partners: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), IFRC

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to establishing a humanitarian situation room to assist in early warning efforts before the end of 2017.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to strengthening regional disaster management capacities and arrangements, building on lessons learnt within and outside different regions, and work with its Member States to develop a network of crisis management centers to facilitate bilateral and regional cooperation in preparedness and response. Lessons can be learned including in the context of the Regional Organizations Humanitarian Assistance Network (ROHAN).
  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to supporting context specific capacity-building programs for national and local leadership in natural disaster preparedness and response, particularly in its vulnerable Member States, and to urging international partners to utilize national mechanisms as the default coordination mechanism and to ensure that assistance is targeted at filling gaps so that these mechanisms are empowered to play a leading role in crisis response.


  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States that have not done so, to develop and implement national legislation on emergency preparedness, adopt national preparedness strategies to strengthen national and local emergency management systems for natural disasters, integrate emergency preparedness in education curricula to instill a culture of prevention and rapid response, and make the private sector an integral part of natural disaster response and recovery planning. This effort will be pursed in the context of the OIC partnership program with the World Bank, IDB and Saudi Arabia and in partnership with IFRC and Red Cross and Red Crescent societies building on best practices, including from IFRC's efforts and the IFRC/UNDP Domestic Disaster Law Project.


  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to urging its Member States 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, in order to ensure adequate annual budgets for national early warning systems, and to invest in national early warning capacity in a manner that leverages global and regional support structures.


  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to working with its Member States and other partners to assist Member States to develop contingency plans that identify transboundary disaster displacement risk scenarios to prevent disaster-induced displacement by integrating this risk into climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat commits, through its partnership program with the World Bank, the IDB, and Saudi Arabia as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the OIC Council of Ministers of Environment, to assisting its Member States to take a more systematic and integrated approach to risk management. This will be achieved 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 these sectors are complementary, and based on a common analysis of risk and costs. It commits to promoting resilience building especially in Member States prone to natural disasters.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat stands ready to cooperate with other partners working on developing predictable thresholds for triggering international response to natural disasters when national capacities are overwhelmed, in full cooperation and coordination with the affected Member States.


  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat will urge its Member States to increase funding for disaster risk reduction, preparedness, and resilience activities and to undertake this effort in a coherent manner, including through enhanced domestic resource mobilization and private sector investment.
  • Advocacy
  • 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 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

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • Recognising that global humanitarian efforts are failing to cope and effectively address the scale and nature of current humanitarian crises, and in support of the call by the UN Secretary- General to initiate change and improvement in the system through the convening of the Summit, the OIC Secretariat commits to advocating that the international community considers the ideas and proposals presented in the preparatory process and during the Summit for the reform of the current humanitarian architecture and reviews the manner in which is is operating so as to more fully achieve the humanitarian imperative of saving lives, ensure greater protection and alleviate human suffering. As a first step, the OIC Secretariat stresses that the Inter-Agency Standing Committee should be reviewed and adapted to better reflect the diversity of humanitarian actors and the challenges faced within specific regions, including through decentralization. The OIC Secretariat stands ready to join other partners interested in further addressing this issue in depth to jointly convene a meeting to discuss the ideas suggested in this regard with key stakeholders.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to deepening its cooperation with its partners including the US, the EU and its Member States, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Japan and others; the UN and its specialized agencies, the ICRC, the IFRC; regional organizations including in the context of the Regional Organizations Humanitarian Assistance Network (ROHAN); and international, regional and local NGOs and their networks, the private sector, philanthropists, youth and academia.


  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat commits to establishing a network of humanitarian academic and training institutes within its Member States in order to more effectively contribute to global humanitarian action and to alleviate human suffering.


  • Training
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to improving synergy between its humanitarian and developmental efforts, in cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) as well as with its partners in the humanitarian and developmental domains.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • The OIC Secretariat stands ready to join in an awareness campaign with others addressing the needs of orphans, as this is an issue of importance in the Islamic world.


  • Advocacy
  • 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

5A
Invest in local capacities

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • Most of the humanitarian assistance of the OIC Secretariat is undertaken through partnerships with national NGOs. The OIC Secretariat commits to continue empowering national and local NGOs in cooperation with its Member States and at the international level including through its joint initiative with OCHA, USAID and the European Union to advance dialogue between international and local NGOs.
  • Capacity
  • Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to strengthening its advocacy at the international level on the necessity of facilitating direct access for local organizations to international financial resources, as most of the funds at the international level are not currently accessible to national and local humanitarian NGOs. It will continue to urge donors to invest in capacity advancement of national and local NGOs in different areas including in the areas of accountability and transparency requirements.
  • Advocacy
  • 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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity

  • The OIC Secretariat will advocate for conducting further studies that emphasize the link between financing preparedness and reducing risks and cost of response as well as the value of introducing safety nets in fragile contexts, and of 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 and protect development investments.


  • Advocacy
  • 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
  • Commit to invest in risk management, preparedness and crisis prevention capacity to build the resilience of vulnerable and affected people.
  • Invest in Humanity

5C
Invest in stability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat will continue to urge its Member States to increasingly focus on the neediest and the most vulnerable when allocating their financial assistance.
  • Advocacy
  • Invest in Humanity

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • Recognising that humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, stabilization, and climate financing should be more coherent at the national level, the OIC Secretariat commits to working with its Member States and its specialized agencies, in cooperation with its partners, to examine how policy frameworks can integrates these areas in a coherent manner.
  • Policy
  • 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

  • The OIC Secretariat is committed to supporting the continuation of the efforts of the Regional Steering Groups as they can contribute towards addressing various issues pertaining to the follow up of the outcome of the Summit including the reform of the current humanitarian architecture.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat commits to continuing to be transparent regarding the humanitarian funding that it allocates to national actors and stands ready to cooperate with international transparency initiatives in this regard.
  • Operational
  • Invest in Humanity

  • The OIC Secretariat will actively utilize its existing funding mechanisms, such as the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development, the Special Programme for Central Asia, the Jeddah Declaration for Agricultural Development, the new Special Programme for Development of Africa, and the optimization of Islamic banking and social finance products to mobilize funds in support of entrepreneurship development and support for the vulnerable segments of societies, particularly in its Member States. Furthermore it will work with its Member States, the IDB and other specialised agencies to examine how relevant instruments of Islamic Social Finance contribute to addressing humanitarian and developmental needs, as well as building resilience for conflict and disaster affected Member States.


  • Financial
  • Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat will advocate at the international level on the necessity of simplifying reporting requirements and increasing predictable, multi-year, flexibly earmarked and unearmarked humanitarian funding by donors.
  • Advocacy
  • Invest in Humanity
  • The OIC Secretariat will work with its Member States and other partners to engage with philanthropists, the private sector and other donors in a more effective manner.
  • 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