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RET International commits to support the UN in convening a World Prevention Forum by 2020 to identify how Member States, the UN Secretariat, the Security Council and Regional Organisations can work more effectively together on conflict prevention and resolution.

RET International commits to actively promote the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence in humanitarian action by ensuring all its local, regional and HQ personnel is well aware of these principles and how to respect them in their daily work. Information sessions (face-to-face, virtually or by the use of other communication tools) will be held each year with RET staff.

RET International commits to comply with existing gender equality norms enshrined in international frameworks governing conflicts, including the Geneva Conventions, its Additional Protocols, customary international law as well as international refugee law with immediate effect.

RET International commits to continue mainstreaming international humanitarian law, human right law and refugee law when applicable, in its awareness-raising and capacity-building training with community members, local and national stakeholders in contexts of crisis and fragility.

RET International commits to developing and implementing strategies for the inclusion and engagement of men and boys as part of the solution to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in crisis by 2018.

RET International commits to disseminate, respect and implement in all its interventions the existing gender equality norms enshrined in international frameworks governing conflicts, including the Geneva Conventions, its Additional Protocols, customary international law as well as international refugee law by 2018.

RET International commits to sign the Call to Action and its Roadmap by 2017 and make commitments commensurate with its mandate, capacities and resources.

RET International commits to undertaking GBV prevention and mitigation interventions throughout all stages of humanitarian action within and across 100 % of our interventions by 2018.

RET International commits to disseminate best practices and lessons learned on building and supporting processes of economic recovery, self-reliance, education, social and economic integration into the host communities, as well as, youth empowerment as agents of positive social change using a differential and human rights-based approach, which have been developed and successfully implemented, over 15 years working in fragile, crisis-prone contexts with a particular focus on displaced populations and communities affected by displacement.

RET International commits to facilitate the equal participation of refugees, returnees, IDPs and affected local populations, women, adolescents and girls in civil society organisations to inform and influence solutions that protect and respond to their specific needs and aspirations as of 2016.

RET International commits to prioritize solutions that improve the self-reliance and resilience of IDPs, refugees, returnees and host affected communities, by addressing their education, livelihoods and protection needs with a particular focus on adolescents and youth, as well as, on female groups targeting at least 50% of this concerned population in each of RET projects as of 2016. 

RET International commits to respect and include in all its activities concerning raising awareness and disseminating information on refugee and IDPs rights, the AU Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (the Kampala Convention), / the Guiding Principles on internal displacement, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.

RET International commits to support the development of national legislation, capacities, policies and/or strategies for the protection of IDPs, refugees, persons under international protection status, as well local affected populations, by fundraising for projects aiming at strengthening social/health safety national nets, ensuring quality and inclusive education programmes, preparing, supporting and integrating them into the labour market, providing psychosocial support and legal advise when required as from 2016, in a way which leverages the varying levels of capacity, indigenous and traditional knowledge, and resources embedded in communities.

RET commit to continue amplifying the voices, concerns and expectations of all those adolescents, girls and boys, and youth, female and male, who have been left behind by the lack of prioritisation and understanding of their vulnerabilities, as well as, their incredible potential to be the most active and engaged partners in humanitarian crisis to contribute overcoming the challenges their communities and they are facing daily to break the cycle of dependency and become responsible citizens of the world, critical thinkers, creative entrepreneurs, agents of their rights, and accomplished human beings.

RET International commits to design a project component and implement it as soon as possible after an emergency on comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights, including legal and psychosocial advise and support, as from 2017. 

RET International commits to ensure that all women (girls, adolescents and adults) access and benefit equally from cash and non-cash assistance programmes, sustainable and dignified livelihoods, education, vocational and skills training opportunities through all RET-funded projects as from 2017.

RET International commits to establish quotas to ensure at least 50% of its staff at are women by 2020.

RET International commits to facilitating meaningful participation of women with emphasis on young women and adolescent girls, in all formal and informal decision making processes in crisis-settings concerning their education, social and civil engagement, livelihoods and self-sufficiency, health/reproductive health and psychosocial wellbeing, from refugee camp/urban committees to peace processes, reaching parity with men and adolescents boys by 2030.

RET International 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.

RET International commits to providing support to national and local leadership to ensure that long term, collective programming incorporates gender equality analysis and concrete steps to empower women and girls, by 2020.

RET International commits to develop and implement, upon available funding, education strategies using an inclusive human rights approach and aiming to strength individual and community resilient capacities with a particular focus on children and youth to overcome the challenges imposed by contexts affected by disasters and climate-related risks.

RET International will expand the education, self-reliance and protection interventions for refugees, IDPs, returnees, persons under the international protection status, to access quality, inclusive and accredited education at all levels (with a particular focus on post-basic education), sustainable livelihood opportunities, referral systems to health care and legal services, etc. without discrimination, and in a manner that also supports host communities.

RET commit to continue amplifying the voices, concerns and expectations of all those adolescents, girls and boys, and youth, female and male, who have been left behind by the lack of prioritisation and understanding of their vulnerabilities, as well as, their incredible potential to be the most active and engaged partners in humanitarian crisis to contribute overcoming the challenges their communities and they are facing daily to break the cycle of dependency and become responsible citizens of the world, critical thinkers, creative entrepreneurs, agents of their rights, and accomplished human beings.

RET International commits to facilitating meaningful participation of women with emphasis on young women and adolescent girls, in all formal and informal decision making processes in crisis-settings concerning their education, social and civil engagement, livelihoods and self-sufficiency, health/reproductive health and psychosocial wellbeing, from refugee camp/urban committees to peace processes, reaching parity with men and adolescents boys by 2030.

RET international commits to share its expertise in building comprehensive grassroot and human right-based interventions leading to the empowerment of vulnerable adolescents and young people to become agents of positive social change in contexts of fragility.

By 2020, RET International commits to invest efforts to ensure that its international assistance based on its donor funding, that RET addresses the gaps between humanitarian and development funding, that RET looks to strengthening the technical capacities of national and local authorities and stakeholders, as well as, the capacities of IDPs, refugees, returnees, affected host communities and populations affected by violence, with a particular focus on young people, female adolescent and young adults, to the attainment of durable solutions in partnership with local/civil society and national authorities, which will play a progressively greater role in the response.

RET commit to continue amplifying the voices, concerns and expectations of all those adolescents, girls and boys, and youth, female and male, who have been left behind by the lack of prioritisation and understanding of their vulnerabilities, as well as, their incredible potential to be the most active and engaged partners in humanitarian crisis to contribute overcoming the challenges their communities and they are facing daily to break the cycle of dependency and become responsible citizens of the world, critical thinkers, creative entrepreneurs, agents of their rights, and accomplished human beings.

RET commits to support a "common approach" model for collective community engagement and accountability as a means to connect community feedback to strategic decision-making processes in all its countries of operation by 2018.

RET International commits to align its support behind national and local resilience efforts, and provide vulnerable people with a mix of short-term assistance to address immediate needs and long term assistance to improve self-resilience.

RET International commits to continue supporting cooperation amongst key national and international stakeholders (governmental and non-governmental) on how to build affected people's resilience after a crisis, through active engagement at country and regional levels to avoid overlaps and duplication, and to promote synergies with existing infrastructure within the host country, working together with the host government and any intergovernmental coordination bodies that may be officially empowered, such as CORELAC in Latin America, Education and Protection clusters, UNHCR, UNICEF and particularly with the affected populations themselves. RET International commits to share successful and replicable project sustainability models in this regard with national stakeholders in each country of operation.

RET International commits to joint a new coalition to strengthen the resilience of 1 billion people by 2025.

RET International commits to work with national counterparts, whenever possible, to expand access to sustainable protection systems within all countries of operation, with immediate effect.

RET International commits, when appropriate and upon funding available, to reinforce national and local leadership in natural disaster preparedness and response by tailoring their response to the specific context, using national mechanisms as the default coordination arrangements and ensuring assistance is targeted at filling gaps.

RET commits to include education of DRR and preparedness in all its education modules in Latin America and the Caribbean, and other regions at risk and to do this in a coherent way from multiple sources, including enhanced domestic resources mobilization, private sector investment and higher proposition of development and climate adaptation finance, such as the Green Climate Fund.

RET International commits to achieve the Sendai Framework target to increase people's access to multi-hazard, Early Warning Systems, where possible and disseminate disaster risk information and assessments by 2030, including through initiatives, such as the Climate Risk Early Warning System, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean.

RET International commits to agree on actions that should be undertaken, within defined timelines, once a heightened risk of an El Nino or La Nina event is confirmed.

RET International commits to disseminate information about situations and factors of risks able to increase, expose and/or affect persons living in emergency settings, with a particular focus on children and youth using an inclusive human rights perspective; RET International also commits to inform about the different type of threats, including those who are caused by the climate change.

RET International commits to enhance countries' preparedness, and accelerate this initially in its countries of operation, so they reach a minimum level of readiness by 2020.

RET International 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 engage the private sector particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean.

RET International commits to strengthened disaster preparedness and response through partnership and cooperation amongst practitioners, and to use the Humanitarian Network and Partnerships Week (HNPW) as a platform to develop collaborative solutions to the recurring challenges faced in local, national, regional and global preparedness and response including those raised at the World Humanitarian Summit.

RET International commits to increase investment by 2025 - upon available donor funding - in building community resilience as a core foundation of national risk management efforts, the key elements of which could include raising awareness of critical risks and how all community members may be affected; collaboration between local government businesses and neighbourhoods in tackling its most important risks; ensuring women's participation; reinforcing local infrastructure, and improving communities' capacity to provide coordinated first response.