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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.
3A
Reduce and address displacement
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- The Tent Foundation commits to a new approach to addressing forced displacement that not only meets immediate humanitarian needs but reduces vulnerability and improves the resilience and self-reliance of refugees and IDPs. The Tent Foundation commits to implementing this new approach through international and national programmes, and by taking the necessary political, policy, legal and financial steps requiring for the specific context.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- The Tent Foundation commits to collectively work towards a strengthened international framework for predictable and equitable responsibility sharing in response to large-scale movements for refugees.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- The Tent Foundation commits to communicate that businesses are committed to ending the refugee crisis and deserve a seat at the table alongside governments, NGOs and international organizations.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
- The Tent Foundation commits to continuing the Tent Challenge effort over the next year.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind
The Tent Foundation commits to develop a one-stop-shop to enable businesses to more effectively navigate the complex maze of humanitarian assistance, so they can best determine how to contribute their resources to support international organizations and NGOs that are supporting refugees and internally displaced persons.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- The Tent Foundation commits to develop technology tools to support the ability of businesses to collaborate with one another, and the public and NGO sectors, to support refugees and internally displaced persons.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- The Tent Foundation commits to expand the public opinion surveys to include refugee community perceptions.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- The Tent Foundation commits to inspire businesses that are not currently supporting refugees to consider making such support a part of their corporate responsibility.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind
The Tent Foundation commits to promote greater collaboration among businesses, and between the private sector, the public sector and NGOs, to improve the quality of refugee and internally displaced.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind
- The Tent Foundation commits to redoubling its focus to expand the Tent Alliance to not only include global businesses, but also local businesses in the regions most affected by refugees and internally displaced persons.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind
- The Tent Foundation commits to update its public opinion surveys to track host community perceptions on an annual basis.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Through the Tent Challenge grant program, the Tent Foundation commits to developing partnerships to encourage innovative approaches to support the self-reliance of refugees and internally displaced persons.
- Partnership
- 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
- 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
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- The Tent Foundation commits 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.
- Financial
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
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 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
4C
Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
The Tent Foundation will develop a useful knowledge base for governments, international organizations and NGOs to craft more effective solutions to humanitarian crises.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
The Tent Foundation commits to advocating for greater inclusiveness of the private sector in humanitarian assistance through the Tent Alliance program.
- Advocacy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
The Tent Foundation commits to promoting research to advocate for a comprehensive approach to the management of humanitarian systems.
- Advocacy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- The Tent Foundation commits to strengthening the mechanisms for country and local-level coordination and globally to maximize policy coherence through the Tent Challenge grant program.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
5A
Invest in local capacities
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- The Tent Foundation commits 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.
- Financial
- Invest in Humanity
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
5D
Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- 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