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.
1B
Act early
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ukraine calls on the UN Secretariat to provide a regularized background briefing to the Council for greater situational awareness, in line with Article 34 of the Charter.
- Advocacy
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
- Ukraine requests that the Secretary-General develop a comprehensive plan to strengthen conflict prevention at the United Nations based on lessons learnt.
- Policy
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
- Ukraine will support the United Nations in convening a World Prevention Forum by 2020 to identify how Member States, the UN Secretariat, the Security Council and regional organizations can work more effectively together on conflict prevention and resolution.
- Policy
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to act early upon potential conflict situations based on early warning findings and shared conflict analysis, in accordance with international law.
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
- Commit to make successful conflict prevention visible by capturing, consolidating and sharing good practices and lessons learnt.
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
1C
Remain engaged and invest in stability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ukraine will improve the skills of staff working on conflict analysis, prevention and resolution in national ministries, regional and international organizations by holding targeted trainings.
- Training
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to improve prevention and peaceful resolution capacities at the national, regional and international level improving the ability to work on multiple crises simultaneously.
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
- Commit to sustain political leadership and engagement through all stages of a crisis to prevent the emergence or relapse into conflict.
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
- Commit to address root causes of conflict and work to reduce fragility by investing in the development of inclusive, peaceful societies.
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
1D
Develop solutions with and for people
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Ukraine commits to strengthening the active participation of women and youth in peacebuilding.
- Operational
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind
2A
Respect and protect civilians and civilian objects in the conduct of hostilities
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ukraine will take steps to adopt domestic legislation to prohibit the use of schools and places of worship in support of the military effort.
- Policy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
2B
Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Ukraine commits to ensure that women and girls are equally protected under international humanitarian law and receive medical care without adverse distinction as the "wounded or sick" by 2018.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
- Ukraine will adopt clear, simple and expedited procedures to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief through developing national humanitarian legislation.
- Policy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ukraine commits to designate focal points in relevant government branches responsible for promoting respect for international humanitarian and human rights law.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- Ukraine commits to developing and implementing strategies for the engagement of men and boys as part of the solution to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
Ukraine commits to support local women-led groups, including in the framework of programs and projects aimed at prevention and response to gender-based violence, providing assistance to conflict-affected people, promoting gender equality in post-conflict recovery through implementing annually at least 25 social projects and delivering social services, at a minimum, to 2500 persons.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
2E
Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Ukraine calls for the holding of regular meetings of States and experts on the implementation of international humanitarian law, and offers to host, with donors' support, such a meeting in Ukraine.
- Partnership
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
- Ukraine commits to engage constructively in an intergovernmental process to find agreement on the functions and features of a potential forum of States on international humanitarian law and ways to enhance the implementation of international humanitarian law, in conformity with resolution 2 of the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 2015.
- Partnership
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
3A
Reduce and address displacement
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ukraine will continue developing national legislation for the protection of internally displaced persons, refugees and persons in need of protection.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- Ukraine will continue the implementation of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
- Ukraine will continue to integrate refugees and persons in need of protection pursuant to the action plan on integration of refugees and persons in need of protection into Ukrainian society until 2020.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Ukraine will cooperate with interested institutions and international organizations, particularly with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to achieve clear outcomes in protecting the rights of refugees and persons in need of protection.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Ukraine will expand opportunities for refugees and persons in need of protection to access education, health care, livelihoods and other services, without discrimination, and in a manner which also supports host communities.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Ukraine will provide access to quality education to all internally displaced persons following their displacement.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Ukraine will put in place improved data collection and analysis system to identify and monitor the needs and required skillsets of internally displaced persons.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- Ukraine will support consultative process to develop regional frameworks to protect and address the needs of internally displaced persons, based on the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ukraine commits that funding, including pooled funds, is allocated only to funding actions that explicitly include a gender analysis with sex and age disaggregated data by 2018.
- Financial
- Leave No One Behind
Ukraine commits to ensure national accountability mechanisms to monitor the extent to which gender equality and women's empowerment is implemented in crisis settings.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
Ukraine commits to ensure that women and girls are equally protected under international humanitarian law and receive medical care without adverse distinction as the "wounded or sick" by 2018.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
- Ukraine commits to implement General Recommendation 30 of the CEDAW Committee on Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
Ukraine commits to provide capacity-building and mentoring support to women's groups and volunteers to double current absorption capacity of women's groups by 2018.
- Capacity
- Leave No One Behind
Ukraine commits to strengthening the active participation of women and youth in peacebuilding.
- Operational
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind
Ukraine commits to support local women-led groups, including in the framework of programs and projects aimed at prevention and response to gender-based violence, providing assistance to conflict-affected people, promoting gender equality in post-conflict recovery through implementing annually at least 25 social projects and delivering social services, at a minimum, to 2500 persons.
- Operational
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind
3E
Eliminate gaps in education for children, adolescents and young people
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Ukraine will provide access to quality education to all internally displaced persons following their displacement.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
3F
Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Ukraine commits to strengthening the active participation of women and youth in peacebuilding.
- Operational
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
Ukraine commits to convene periodic, inclusive national dialogue platforms with civil society, youth, women's groups and others to ensure their concerns are addressed early on.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
5C
Invest in stability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Ukraine commits to work with interested institutions and international organizations to achieve clear outcomes and develop required financial and operational tools, in particular to establish a Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Peacebuilding and Recovery in Ukraine.
- Financial
- Invest in Humanity