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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.
1B
Act early
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- 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
- At the national level, People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network will work with other civil society organizations to urge the Philippine Government to initiate and continue the peace process and work for the passage of an inclusive Bangsamoro Basic Law.
- Advocacy
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- 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
2B
Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to ensure that its personnel and partners share a common understanding of and commitment to adhere to the humanitarian guiding principles, the Code of Conduct, the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership, Sphere, and the Core Humanitarian Standard in all of its humanitarian response.
- Training
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
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
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to work with other organizations to be vigilant in monitoring and reporting violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to make RA 9851 - the Philippines Act on crimes against international humanitarian law, genocide and other crimes against humanity - and IHL integral contents of its training, information and communication program to increase public awareness of IHL principles and goals.
- Training
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to undertake GBV prevention and mitigation interventions in its humanitarian response actions.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to adopt the IASC statement on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse at the individual agency level.
- Policy
- 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
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
- At the national level, People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network will work with other civil society organizations to urge the Philippine Government to pass a law that protects the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) aligned with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and internationally accepted standards.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to work with other national and local NGOs to urge the Philippines Government to strengthen the country's mechanisms for hosting refugees.
- Advocacy
- 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
3B
Address the vulnerabilities of migrants and provide more regular and lawful opportunities for migration
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to ensure the protection of Filipino migrants living in countries in crises by advocating for the improvement of the Philippine standards on evacuation, resettlement and reintegration.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to engage women's groups in humanitarian response and protection. For years, it has been working with community-based disaster response organizations that are mainly led by women and created spaces for their meaningful participation in the response. People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network shall continue supporting and developing women leaders and decision-makers in humanitarian action.
- Capacity
- Leave No One Behind
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to ensure that at least 40% of leadership are held by women by 2020 in all its projects.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to ensure that all its personnel have the competencies in analyzing and integrating gender and protection principles in its humanitarian action and responding to GBV cases.
- Capacity
- Leave No One Behind
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to ensure that its staffing maintains its 40-60% ratio of men and women.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to provide capacity building of women in all future projects.
- Capacity
- 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 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
3F
Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to start tapping youth potentials by engaging them in community-based disaster risk reduction activities specifically on preparedness and humanitarian response.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
3G
Address other groups or minorities in crisis settings
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network endorses the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commit to strengthen its working relation with government agencies, LGUs, peoples organizations, local/national NGOs, INGOs and other stakeholders. It reaffirms and adheres to the Principles of Partnership endorsed by the Global Humanitarian Platform in July 2007 that emphasizes equality, transparency, result-oriented approach, responsibility and complementarity.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to continuously focus its interventions at the community and municipal levels as the primary locus of change through capacity building support to LGUs, organizing the most vulnerable population towards empowering them as individuals, groups and communities to better prepare and respond to emergencies.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to actively engage government agencies, local government units, NGOs, private sector, religious, community organizations and other stakeholders in strengthening local coordination mechanisms to promote synergy, complementation of assistance and services.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to endorse the Charter for Change that calls for localizing humanitarian aid.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to ensure that its personnel and partners share a common understanding of and commitment to adhere to the humanitarian guiding principles, the Code of Conduct, the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership, Sphere, and the Core Humanitarian Standard in all of its humanitarian response.
- Training
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to increase its capacity together with other members of the Humanitarian Response Consortium in cash-transfer programming as priority intervention.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to reaffirm its basic criteria of prioritizing disaster-affected, high-risk but least served communities.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to strengthen its facilitating role in articulating needs of communities to make donors and government aware of community priorities addressing disaster impacts.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to urge the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) to institutionalize national humanitarian standards as framework for an effective humanitarian action. It will launch an advocacy campaign by 2017 for the NDRRMC to adapt an acceptable and appropriate national humanitarian standards guided by existing universal norms, principles, and standards as a policy of the state under RA 10121, Section 2, b. (Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010).
- Advocacy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to work with community front-line structures such as community-based organizations and Barangay Councils to lead in disaster preparedness, response, rehabilitation and development programming. It commits to sustain its capacity-building endeavour with communities and other local stakeholders on disaster preparedness towards an effective humanitarian response. It will continue to assist communities and LGUs in formulating hazard specific contingency plans, setting-up of early warning system and the conduct of community drills.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network reaffirm its belief in people centered development oriented humanitarian response that builds on people's inherent capacities to anticipate, cope with, respond to and recover from disasters. It will invest time and resources in organizing the most vulnerable men and women in high-risk communities, build their understanding of risk, enable them to act together in managing risks, develop their confidence in voicing-out their opinions especially in engaging with other humanitarian actors and take part in building the path towards their community's resiliency and development.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network shall continuously practice transparent and accountable management of humanitarian response by engaging the disaster-affected people and communities in the process of assessment, planning, monitoring and evaluation. Public disclosure (specifically in partner communities) of plans, processes, progress, acquired resources, and investment shall be an integral part of its accountability mechanism.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network will actively engage in developing the national platform model with clear pro-active coordination agreements among the national NGO networks in the Philippines by 2018.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network will develop partnership with other groups that cater to specific vulnerable groups to ensure a more inclusive humanitarian response.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network will exercise greater accountability to disaster-affected people and communities. It will continuously practice transparent and accountable management of humanitarian response by engaging the disaster-affected people and communities in the process of assessment, planning, monitoring and evaluation. Public disclosure (specifically in partner communities) of plans, processes, progress, acquired resources, and investment shall be an integral part of PDRRN's accountability mechanism.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to make sustained funding conditional on the systematic collection of feedback from affected people on the quality and utility of humanitarian programmes.
- Financial
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to establishing a common approach to providing information to affected people and collecting, aggregating and analysing feedback from communities to influence decision-making processes at strategic and operational levels.
- 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
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commit to work with governments at the national, regional and local levels for the improvement of their respective disaster preparedness plan to achieve the country's readiness by 2020.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network will work with other local and national NGOs, people's organizations and the government in the process of framing Local Development Plans and the Philippine Medium Term Development Plan that incorporates risk analysis, people's priority and needs, clear implementation mechanisms, and aligned with the Philippine commitments to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and in the WHS. Related to this, it will likewise continue to support the call for the passage of the National Land Use Policy. It commits to sustain its community based preparedness initiatives through risk assessment, contingency planning, early warning system development in partnership with people's organizations and local government units to complement with the government's preparedness 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 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
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to engage in advocacy and campaigns to demand government for durable solutions in conflict and disaster affected areas.
- Advocacy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to improve the existing tools in disaster assessment and response planning that will identify and address practical and strategic needs of vulnerable women and men, boys and girls, persons with disabilities (PWDs), the elderly, female-headed households, and those living below the poverty line.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to pursue long-term development programming with the communities and the local government units to address decades-long poverty that create people's vulnerability. It shall improve its skills and technology for community risk assessment and conduct regular updating of risk assessment together with members of the community.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to work to increase the capacity of the Humanitarian Response Consortium (HRC) with innovations in disaster preparedness and more effective humanitarian response.
- Capacity
- 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
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
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
5D
Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to enable coherent financing that avoids fragmentation by supporting collective outcomes over multiple years, supporting those with demonstrated comparative advantage to deliver in context.
- 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
- 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
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to improve its ability to deliver services, strengthen financial management and logistical support system to comply with the donor requirements.
- Operational
- Invest in Humanity
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network commits to strengthen its management capacity to comply with the requirements of its partner donor agencies.
- Capacity
- Invest in Humanity
- People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network shall strengthen its management capacity to comply with the requirements of its partner donor agencies.
- 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