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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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1B
Act early

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

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
  • UNFPA commits by the end of 2017, to compile, research and share global good practices and progress reports on youth contributions to peace and security working with partners to implement Security Council Resolution 2250 on youth, peace and security.
  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • UNFPA commits to mobilize and support women and youth community-based networks and their participation in conflict prevention and sustaining peace.


  • 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

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to promote and enhance the protection of civilians and civilian objects, especially in the conduct of hostilities, for instance by working to prevent civilian harm resulting from the use of wide-area explosive weapons in populated areas, and by sparing civilian infrastructure from military use in the conduct of military operations.
  • 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
  • UNFPA commits to working with partners to reach populations especially women and girls in need to deliver rapid and unimpeded humanitarian assistance especially in hard to reach areas in accordance with international humanitarian law, international human rights law, refugee law and international criminal law. UNFPA further commits to increase its advocacy efforts for the protection and respect of humanitarian health care workers and health facilities.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to ensure all populations in need receive rapid and unimpeded humanitarian assistance.
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Commit to promote and enhance efforts to respect and protect medical personnel, transports and facilities, as well as humanitarian relief personnel and assets against attacks, threats or other violent acts.
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

2C
Speak out on violations

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to speak out and systematically condemn serious violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations and abuses of international human rights law and to take concrete steps to ensure accountability of perpetrators when these acts amount to crimes under international law.
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • UNFPA is committed to work towards eradicating all forms of sexual and gender-based violence, to ensure that survivors are treated with dignity and receive necessary support to help rebuild their lives, and to strengthen protection mechanisms.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • UNFPA commits to the Call for Action by strengthening capacity of national health systems, civil society and health workers for prevention and response to gender-based violence including sexual violence.
  • Capacity
  • 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
  • Commit to speak out and systematically condemn serious violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations and abuses of international human rights law and to take concrete steps to ensure accountability of perpetrators when these acts amount to crimes under international law.
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Implement a coordinated global approach to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in crisis contexts, including through the Call to Action on Protection from Gender-based Violence in Emergencies.
  • 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

  • UNFPA also commits to support governments in stemming the root causes of displacement and forced migrations through leadership on the demographic imperative and strengthening capacities to diagnose the challenges and identify solutions that address the specific needs of women and young people.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • UNFPA commits to accelerate humanitarian interventions in countries with a high burden of refugees, internally displaced and stateless people.
  • Operational
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Commit to actively work to uphold the institution of asylum and the principle of non-refoulement. Commit to support further accession to and strengthened implementation of national, regional and international laws and policy frameworks that ensure and improve the protection of refugees and IDPs, such as the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol or the AU Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala convention) or the Guiding Principles on internal displacement.
  • Leave No One Behind

3D
Empower and protect women and girls

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • UNFPA also commits to support governments in stemming the root causes of displacement and forced migrations through leadership on the demographic imperative and strengthening capacities to diagnose the challenges and identify solutions that address the specific needs of women and young people.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits as part of its global initiative of '€œSupplies' to work with national counterparts to scale up the implementation of 2030 Agenda targets on maternal, newborn and adolescent health worldwide for safe birth delivery, maternal and newborn care, HIV prevention and treatment, improved access to information and services on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, emergency contraception, voluntary family planning, and necessary services for GBV survivors.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • UNFPA commits to accelerate the implementation of the Secretary General's Strategy for Every Woman Every Child Every Where.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction by scaling up collection, analysis and dissemination of sex- and age-disaggregated data on the needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • UNFPA commits to increase participation and representation of women and girls and young people in disaster risk reduction, conflict prevention, and post-conflict reconstruction mechanisms.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • UNFPA commits to increasing these services (i.e. sexual and reproductive health information and services and gender-based violence prevention and response services) to reach an additional 3 million women and girls, especially adolescent girls, in 2017.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to mobilize and support women and youth community-based networks and their participation in conflict prevention and sustaining peace.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to place women, girls and young people at the centre of its humanitarian action. Humanitarian interventions must especially take into account their specific needs through robust data collection, analysis and involve them throughout the response cycle from preparedness, response into recovery and resilience


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to reach 40 million people, focusing on women and girls especially very young adolescent girls, with sexual and reproductive health information and services and gender-based violence prevention and response services in crises by 2018.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to scale -up efforts in empowering women, girls and young people as local agents of change and leaders for meaningful participation in humanitarian action and will work with partners for advancing universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights and increased capacity for prevention and response to gender based violence.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • UNFPA commits to scale up its humanitarian programming to Leave No Women and No Girl Behind by providing life-saving services, supplies and information for sexual and reproductive health and prevention and response to gender based violence.
  • 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 universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the Outcome documents of their review conferences for all women and adolescent girls in crisis settings.
  • 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

3F
Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • UNFPA also commits to support governments in stemming the root causes of displacement and forced migrations through leadership on the demographic imperative and strengthening capacities to diagnose the challenges and identify solutions that address the specific needs of women and young people.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • UNFPA commits to champion the implementation of the Global Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action by 2017 in partnership with young people.
  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to increase participation and representation of women and girls and young people in disaster risk reduction, conflict prevention, and post-conflict reconstruction mechanisms.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • UNFPA commits to mobilize and support women and youth community-based networks and their participation in conflict prevention and sustaining peace.


  • Operational
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to place women, girls and young people at the centre of its humanitarian action. Humanitarian interventions must especially take into account their specific needs through robust data collection, analysis and involve them throughout the response cycle from preparedness, response into recovery and resilience


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to reach 40 million people, focusing on women and girls especially very young adolescent girls, with sexual and reproductive health information and services and gender-based violence prevention and response services in crises by 2018.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

  • UNFPA commits to scale -up efforts in empowering women, girls and young people as local agents of change and leaders for meaningful participation in humanitarian action and will work with partners for advancing universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights and increased capacity for prevention and response to gender based violence.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

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

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 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
  • 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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • UNFPA commits to implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction by scaling up collection, analysis and dissemination of sex- and age-disaggregated data on the needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • UNFPA commits to increase participation and representation of women and girls and young people in disaster risk reduction, conflict prevention, and post-conflict reconstruction mechanisms.


  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind 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 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
  • UNFPA commits to invest in stronger links between humanitarian and development actors and to develop resilient national capacity to anticipate and respond to crises.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • UNFPA commits to scale-up global efforts to mobilize sufficient and timely deployed investments, to achieve the expected results for women, girls and young people. These investments are to be driven by evidence-based decision-making, informed by up-to-date data, assessment, and progress monitoring against benchmarks and targets.
  • 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

5A
Invest in local capacities

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • UNFPA commits to implement principled partnerships between national and international actors and humanitarian donors and commits to increase its contribution for capacity building to national delivery systems for sexual and reproductive health services and the prevention and response to gender based violence.
  • Partnership
  • 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

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
  • 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

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • UNFPA welcomes the Grand Bargain and commits to the roll-out of the Transformative Agenda and transition to a model of more collaborative efficiency and collective transformative outcomes at the national level.
  • Policy
  • Invest in Humanity

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