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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.
1D
Develop solutions with and for people
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- UNIDO commits to address root causes of conflicts and social and economic instability by promoting policy and practical solutions and investing in the human potential of vulnerable and marginalized people by upgrading their skills and transfer of knowledge and technologies, thereby creating stable employment and income opportunities. In this perspective, UNIDO promotes the development of local small and medium enterprises and businesses in an environmentally sustainable manner, improves productive infrastructure, and establish sustainable and inclusive partnerships with the private sector as resilient and effective engine of development.
- Operational
- Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts
3A
Reduce and address displacement
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- UNIDO commits to continue its support in identifying and providing dignified and durable solutions for refugees and IDPs through restoring economic activity for affected populations, revitalizing micro- and small-scale enterprises, rehabilitating damaged agricultural or industrial infrastructure, and creation of employment thereby promoting recovery, reconstruction and stability.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- UNIDO commits to continue its support to host countries and communities that are affected by the inflow of refugees and IDPs by creating employment opportunities for local populations, developing local micro- and small-scale enterprises, enabling access to financial schemes and strengthening industries thereby mitigating the stress and promoting social cohesion and stabilization.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- UNIDO commits to participate in developing a new approach to addressing forced displacement by adding its value as the UN agency mandated to promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development to facilitate a transition from aid-dependence to fostering resilience and self-reliance of refugees and IDPs. UNIDO is, therefore, committed to continue promoting and supporting this transition through transfer of skills, knowledge and technologies, allowing refugees and IDPs to find jobs, start their business, secure income, sustain themselves and their families, and helping them regain human dignity.
- Policy
- 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
- UNIDO commits, as the UN agency mandated to promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development, to continue and expand its support to vulnerable migrants by improving their resilience and self-reliance. UNIDO strives to address the root cause of migration by creating stable employment opportunities and increased income in countries of origin through transfer of skills, knowledge and technologies, allowing them to find jobs, start businesses, secure income, and sustain themselves and their family.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
3D
Empower and protect women and girls
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- UNIDO commits to increase its technical cooperation to empower women to act as drivers for poverty reduction and social cohesion in their communities, by encouraging investment in women-owned businesses, strengthening women networks, improving access to markets and providing training, technology and clean energy solutions for inclusive and sustainable industrial development matching humanitarian actions and programmes.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
- UNIDO commits to mainstream gender equality and empowerment of women in all its technical cooperation activities in the humanitarian context, in line with the organization's gender strategy 2016-2019.
- Operational
- Leave No One Behind
3F
Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- UNIDO commits to register as a supporter of the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action and to continue developing and supporting youth employment initiatives, in order to create sustainable livelihoods for youth worldwide, especially those forcibly displaced and in host communities. Alongside humanitarian interventions, UNIDO will continue promoting sustainable (self-) employment solutions in an effort to address root causes of migration as well as providing sources of income and economic integration in host communities. UNIDO offers an integrated and coherent approach that combines macroeconomic and microeconomic interventions for tackling the specific vulnerabilities and needs of youth, taking into account the cultural, social and economic dimensions especially relevant for the youth forcibly displaced and in the host communities.
- Policy
- Leave No One Behind
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
UNIDO commits to comply with the Core Humanitarian Standard and International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
- UNIDO commits to continue to provide vocational and entrepreneurship education and training to transfer industrial and entrepreneurial skills and knowledge that will help the vulnerable people caught in emergencies and crises raise (self-)employability and restore livelihoods. This becomes especially crucial in protracted situations with incrementally reduced humanitarian aid where a transition from aid-dependence to building resilience and self-reliance has to be pursued.
- Training
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- UNIDO commits to increase technical cooperation interventions to enhance the economic capacity of individuals, communities and institutions to withstand crisis and reinforce communities' capacities to mitigate effects of climate change and natural disasters by developing the private sector to increase self-reliance and resilience capacities and providing clean sources of energy, water and livelihoods recovery.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- UNIDO commits to continue to promote climate resilient industrial development that takes a systematic and integrated approach to managing multidimensional risks of climate change on industry and agri-businesses in particular. In pursuit of UNIDO's mandate, inclusive and sustainable industrial development, UNIDO supports industry in mainstreaming climate risk management into their operations through enhanced understanding of the risk and assisting companies to make informed decisions to manage risks, as well as mitigating climate change through the transfer of clean energy solutions.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
UNIDO welcomes the launching of the 'Connecting Business' portal and expresses its commitment for active engagement of UNIDO on this portal. UNIDO commits itself to further expand its programme with the private sector in Public Private Development Partnerships (PPDP) to developing quality industrial skills that meet the demands of the prevailing labor market. UNIDO is ready to share its experiences and its private sector partnerships by engaging in the community of practice of Connecting Business.
- Partnership
- Leave No One Behind 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
- UNIDO commits, to work together with a diverse range of local and global actors, toward achieving collective outcomes that would reduce medium- and long-term risk and vulnerability of the affected people in such a way to seamlessly complement humanitarian operations from the very start of any crises, by promoting use of knowledge and creativity to bring about resilience and economic self-sufficiency.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
UNIDO continues working closely with other development partners, business sector, academia, NGOs and CSOs in identifying issues, sharing experiences and jointly finding solutions. UNIDO is ready to bring its solutions and innovations to this global platform.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
UNIDO welcomes the launching of the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation and commits to actively engage in this platform.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
UNIDO commits to comply with the Core Humanitarian Standard and International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity