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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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3A
Reduce and address displacement

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • By 2020, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) will have contributed to the creation of a shared vision for the humanitarian sector, by advocating with States, donors, UN agencies and NGOs for the prioritization of cash based interventions to be disbursed equally to refugees, IDPs and host communities, when needed, to improve their self-reliance and resilience, and increase protection by reducing the risks faced by them.
  • Policy
  • Leave No One Behind

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • 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

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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • As a convenor of the 100 days of cash initiative, The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) commits to work with states, humanitarian and development agencies and the private sector to build consensus, capacity, resources and commitment to scale up multipurpose humanitarian cash transfers in line with the calls to action laid out in the CaLP Agenda for Cash.
  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • By 2019, in collaboration with other stakeholders the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) will contribute to mainstreaming cash across preparedness, response and recovery by shaping and influencing global discussions through force multiplying its tools, research and coordination structures.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • By 2019, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) commits to engage at least 75 humanitarian organizations and institutions to capture and promote lessons learned, best practice and evidence based innovation of cash transfer programming through CaLP- supported regional learning fora and other platforms, including the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation, as appropriate.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • By 2019, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) commits to support at least 10 national governments / state actors in priority crisis prone countries to increase its capacity to utilize cash transfer programming in humanitarian response.
  • Capacity
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • By 2019, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) commits to support States and humanitarian and development actors, to establishing effective operational partnership models through the development of platforms, guidance and implementing pilots to improve and strengthen the synergy between humanitarian cash transfer and social protection systems and practitioners.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • By 2019, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) in partnership with other stakeholders will contribute to positively reframe the perception of cash amongst host and donor governments, the general public, the media and other stakeholders with the power to influence decision-making.
  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • By 2019, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) will develop research and complement other efforts to advocate for the better understanding and effective management of risks associated with cash transfer programming.
  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • By 2019, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) will develop research and complemented other efforts to advocate for the development and reinforcement of national domestic rules, procedures and institutional arrangements for facilitating and regulating cash transfer programming at scale.
  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • By 2020, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) will have incubated and catalyzed a global conversation with humanitarian and development organzations, States and private sector actors to construct a shared vision of cash transfer programming situated in a significantly reformed humanitarian sector.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) commits to support the mainstreaming of cash transfer programming in the revision of the Sphere standard and to define with the Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance how cash transfer programming influences the practical application of the Core Humanitarian Standard.
  • Policy
  • 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 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

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

4C
Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides

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 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

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