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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.
1C
Remain engaged and invest in stability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Trocaire will advocate with the Irish Government as a UN and EU Member State on the prevention and resolution of conflict.
- Advocacy
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
1D
Develop solutions with and for people
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Trocaire will promote equal rights and responsibilities of men and women and continue its work with the Irish Government in promoting Security Council Resolution 1325 and Ireland's Second National Action Plan, advocating for equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts for the promotion of peace and security.
- Advocacy
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
2B
Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Trocaire will actively promote humanitarian principles in its work and ensure that its humanitarian activities and those of its partners have the aim of making people safer, preserving their dignity and reducing vulnerabilities by building the skills of staff according to their duties in areas such as protection, international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
- Advocacy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Trócaire will implement the IASC GBV Guidelines by 2018 and incorporate the guidelines into all protection training modules.
- Policy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- Trocaire will integrate gender and HIV responses to deliver humanitarian programmes that address women's vulnerability to GBV and HIV.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- Trocaire will maintain and enhance its support to protection and protection mainstreaming in its humanitarian programming to protect women and girls, boys and men from sexual abuse and exploitation in humanitarian crises situations.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- Trocaire will work with partners on the protection of women and girls in emergencies, including support for women and girls who have experienced sexual violence, abuse or exploitation.
- Partnership
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and refugee law, where applicable.
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- Fully comply with humanitarian policies, frameworks and legally binding documents related to gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights.
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
2E
Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and refugee law, where applicable.
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
3A
Reduce and address displacement
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Trociare commits to advocating for the protection of refugees and migrants as well as the responsibilities of EU Member States to recognise and fulfil commitments and obligations regarding refugee quotas, and the rights of refugees and asylum seekers to access safe, transparent and dignified services and support.
- Advocacy
- 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
Trociare commits to advocating for the protection of refugees and migrants as well as the responsibilities of EU Member States to recognise and fulfil commitments and obligations regarding refugee quotas, and the rights of refugees and asylum seekers to access safe, transparent and dignified services and support.
- Advocacy
- Leave No One Behind
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Trocaire will apply the IASC and /or ECHO gender and age markers to 100% of partner humanitarian funding allocations.
- Financial
- Leave No One Behind
- Trocaire will increase investment and support to national and local partners to ensure that longer-term programming incorporates gender equality analysis and concrete steps to empower women and girls.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Trocaire will prioritise the equal participation of women and girls to inform solutions that protect and respond to their specific needs.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Trociare supports partners with technically skilled and experienced staff to deliver programmes that fully incorporate the protection of women and girls in emergencies and adhere to international standards.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Empower Women and Girls as change agents and leaders, including by increasing support for local women's groups to participate meaningfully in humanitarian action.
- Leave No One Behind
- Ensure that humanitarian programming is gender responsive.
- Leave No One Behind
- Fully comply with humanitarian policies, frameworks and legally binding documents related to gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights.
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Trocaire is a signatory to the Charter for Change which commits it to implement the 8 point Charter by May 2018.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Trocaire commits to increase its utilisation of cash transfers as an effective humanitarian tool and commits to using or facilitating use of cash wherever feasible and appropriate in humanitarian response.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Trocaire commits to strengthen its engagement and advocacy work with partners and networks on the rights of crisis-affected communities to influence duty bearers to address the structural issues that underlie humanitarian crises.
- Advocacy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Trócaire is a signatory to the Inclusion Charter to deliver impartial and accountable humanitarian assistance that responds to vulnerability in all its forms, and reaches the most marginalised people (including children, youth, older people, people with disabilities, ethnic groups and others marginalised due to their social status).
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Trocaire supports national partners to strengthen in-country engagement in humanitarian action.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Trocaire will advocate for respect for the rights of communities affected by crises and hold duty bearers to account for the structural issues that underlie crises, where this does not present risks to communities or to partners.
- Advocacy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Trocaire will strengthen and improve its partnerships with national organisations in programming and delivering principled and coordinated humanitarian assistance.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Trocaire will uphold the highest ethical and professional standards of accountability to the people it serves by seeking feedback on the level of satisfaction with assistance provided from women and men annually.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Trócaire will work closely with partners in its commitment to adopt, use and monitor the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) to improve coherence in standards to improve quality, accountability, effectiveness and efficiency in humanitarian response.
- Operational
- 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 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
- Trocaire will improve and strengthen systematic collection, analysis and use of data disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant factors when developing, implementing and monitoring disaster risk reduction and management programs.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Trocaire will support country programmes and partners to invest in risk analysis and emergency preparedness work and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people, by supporting communities to design and implement appropriate risk reduction strategies, including ensuring adequate resources for risk mitigation.
- Operational
- 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
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
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Trocaire works with partners to advocate for more efficient, inclusive and streamlined funding mechanisms that promote stronger partnerships and increased direct access of local and national front-line responding NGOs to humanitarian funding.
- Advocacy
- 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
5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Trocaire commits to improve transparency on the full cost of humanitarian action, including the resources it transfers to its members.
- Financial
- Invest in Humanity