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.
2E
Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity
Joint Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Thailand pledges to continue to promote ratification of and accession to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention by States. It remains gravely concerned about the continued use of anti-personnel mines and strongly condemns any such use by any actor. It further pledges to uphold its commitment to meet the humanitarian goal of the Convention - a world free from the use and stockpiling of anti-personnel mines - and to put an end to the suffering caused by anti-personnel mines through their complete eradication.
- Advocacy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
3A
Reduce and address displacement
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Thailand is committed to exploring the possibility of establishing an effective screening mechanism to distinguish those with genuine protection needs from economic migrants.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
Thailand is committed to working with relevant parties to continue providing access to healthcare to displaced persons and migrants in Thailand.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
Thailand is committed to working with the international community in promoting economic and social development at country of origin and addressing the roots causes to prevent people from having to leave their homes.
- Policy
- 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
Thailand is committed to exploring the possibility of establishing an effective screening mechanism to distinguish those with genuine protection needs from economic migrants.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand is committed to providing birth registration for all children of migrants and displaced persons born in Thailand.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand is committed to strengthening legal or policy frameworks that ensure and improve the protection of irregular migrants.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
Thailand is committed to working with relevant parties to continue providing access to healthcare to displaced persons and migrants in Thailand.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
Thailand is committed to working with the international community in promoting economic and social development at country of origin and addressing the roots causes to prevent people from having to leave their homes.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Thailand commits to ensure that its disaster management is inclusive of women and caters to the specific needs of women and girls as well as other vulnerable groups.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
3G
Address other groups or minorities in crisis settings
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Thailand endorses the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disability in Humanitarian Action and commits toward its implementation.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will collect data on persons with disabilities, disaggregated by age and sex that are quantitative and qualitative, comparable, reliable and ethically collected.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will conduct a review of their humanitarian policy with the aim at correcting internal gaps in terms of inclusion of persons with disabilities.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will develop and implement advocacy and awareness raising programmes to enhance the understanding of the needs of persons with disabilities to all humanitarian actors willing to strengthen their response towards persons with disabilities.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
Thailand will develop capacity building and training programmes supporting persons with disabilities and relevant organizations to acquire skills and knowledge to empower their capacity of facing humanitarian crisis.
- Capacity
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will develop capacity building and training programmes, as well as gather best practice examples, aiming to support humanitarian actors to improve their response in terms of inclusion of persons with disabilities.
- Capacity
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will develop proposals for universal design in programming, policies and in all post-emergency reconstructions in order to strive to remove physical, communicational and attitudinal barriers and discrimination.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Thailand will ensure sufficient funding allocation to enable humanitarian actors, local and national organizations of persons with disabilities to respond to humanitarian crises.
- Financial
- Leave No One Behind Invest in Humanity
- Thailand will foster participation of persons with disabilities in decision making and planning processes, including in appropriate coordination mechanisms of humanitarian response.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will identify disability focal point and/or establish technical help desks, in order to mainstream the issue of disability within humanitarian aid programmes and manage specific actions for people with disabilities.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will make use of and support the development of improved and innovative methods of communication to ensure that persons with disabilities are reached during emergencies.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will review current national relief services to ensure they are accessible to persons with disabilities.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Thailand will routinely consult with persons with disabilities and their representative organisations during assessment and design of humanitarian programs.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- With respect to guidelines on persons with disabilities in the humanitarian action, Thailand will support the development and implementation of global guidelines on disability inclusion in humanitarian action and commit to provide technical expertise and participate in the Core Group working on the development of global guidelines 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
Thailand will map existing humanitarian and national services to best prepare the referral and response to urgent basic and specific needs for all in case of crisis.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to reinforce national and local leadership and capacities in managing disaster and climate-related risks through strengthened preparedness and predictable response and recovery arrangements.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- 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
4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Thailand commits to ensure that its disaster management is inclusive of women and caters to the specific needs of women and girls as well as other vulnerable groups.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Thailand is committed to developing a National Adaptation Plan for Climate Resilience in accordance with the Paris Agreement under UNFCCC.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Thailand's new Disaster Risk Management Plan is aimed to systematically structure both national and local response capacities. In particular, the Plan stipulates the concepts of integrated emergency management, disaster loss and impact analysis, and "building back better" at its core.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to accelerate the reduction of disaster and climate-related risks through the coherent implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as other relevant strategies and programs of action, including the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
- Commit to improve the understanding, anticipation and preparedness for disaster and climate-related risks by investing in data, analysis and early warning, and developing evidence-based decision-making processes that result in early action.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
4C
Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Thailand is committed to the One ASEAN One Response strategy to achieve a timely, efficient and predictable response. This aims to mobilize greater resources and establish stronger coordination to ensure ASEAN's collective resilience to disasters. Specifically, Thailand has committed to strengthening ASEAN's mechanisms to bring together different sectors and stakeholders to ensure speed, scale, and solidarity in responding to large-scale natural disasters.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
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
5D
Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Thailand will ensure sufficient funding allocation to enable humanitarian actors, local and national organizations of persons with disabilities to respond to humanitarian crises.
- Financial
- Leave No One Behind Invest in Humanity