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.
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
The Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation (also known as RAF Foundation) commits to strengthen health systems in fragile and post-war contexts through the launching of the "Save A Life Initiative" (SALI) to build capacity of selected national medical NGOs in fragile contexts based on the innovative public-NGO partnerships approach, helping these agencies of recovery to deliver quality services to the population, while conducting applied research for a better understanding of the root causes of locally prevalent and preventable illnesses with effective and sustainable approaches utilizing complex programming tools and systems thinking methodologies in the fields of public health and emergency medical relief.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
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
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
5C
Invest in stability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- The Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation (also known as RAF Foundation) commits to launch and to contribute 1 Bn Qatari Riyals (the equivalent of over US$ 270 million) to the Salwa (the Arabic word for solace) Initiative to fight hunger, from now until 2020. The initiative will target 36 countries in Africa and Asia with particularly vulnerable food security indices aiming at serving 20 million beneficiaries with food and to encourage and develop innovative approaches and solutions to fight hunger in collaboration with global specialized institutions and multilateral organizations, regional and national actors, philanthropic foundations and civil society actors, research institutes and universities, and the private sector. Agriculture land reclamation, specialized institutes, innovation awards for best practices and for best ideas in food security are just few examples of projects that will be hosted under the umbrella of the Salwa Initiative.
- Financial Contribution
- Invest in Humanity
5D
Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing
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
5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency
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