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World Vision will continue to share conflict and context analysis tools and data with the humanitarian sector and seek to always work in partnership with other actors. It will strive to 'make success visible' and share research and learning to demonstrate how contextual analysis and understanding improves humanitarian effectiveness.

World Vision will work with faith actors, civil society and youth to establish and support platforms for dialogue, conflict prevention, humanitarian response and social cohesion, as well as to promote "constituencies of peace and non-violence".

World Vision commits to invest in a five year global campaign to address violence against children including in natural disasters and protracted crises, through investment in child protection, linked to education in emergencies, child protection systems strengthening, empowerment and advocacy, including investment in research and learning to strengthen the evidence base for the most effective interventions.

World Vision will provide an essential package of health services to protect and promote the health and nutrition needs of the most vulnerable women, children and adolescents in humanitarian settings.

World Vision commits to drive cross-sector coordination, pre-positioning of partners, expertise, reach and resources promoting collaboration and co-creation of products and services with business for and with disaster-affected communities. World Vision is committed to partnering with the Connecting Business Initiative to ensure these voices are heard.

Having already committed $3 billion ($2 billion in cash and $1 billion in kind) to the global strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, World Vision is committed to spending 24% of this commitment (equivalent to $500 million) in health, nutrition, HIV & AIDS and WASH in humanitarian settings between 2016 and 2020.

World Vision aims to reach 20% of children in need of humanitarian assistance when it responds to conflict and natural disasters by 2020.

World Vision commits to drive cross-sector coordination, pre-positioning of partners, expertise, reach and resources promoting collaboration and co-creation of products and services with business for and with disaster-affected communities. World Vision is committed to partnering with the Connecting Business Initiative to ensure these voices are heard.

World Vision commits to promote ethical principled humanitarian and business action based on facilitating better mutual understanding of roles and responsibilities, ensuring joint monitoring and evaluation, impact measurement of partnerships, continuous mutual capacity building and accountability.

World Vision commits to promote platforms that improve information sharing/management and networking - jointly identify needs, service and product gaps; pre-position partnerships, support mutual capacity building; address humanitarian and resilience building needs through innovation and shared-value creation and joint advocacy with local to multinational business; ensure that all stakeholders are integral participants in government-led disaster management from preparedness planning, to humanitarian response and recovery - promoting mutual capacity building in humanitarian principles/ DRR standards, creating joint investment resulting in self-reliance through profitability for business and communities.

World Vision commits to the Urban Crisis Charter and as a Global Alliance partner will: (1) strengthen its institutional capacity for prevention, preparedness and response to urban humanitarian crises by ensuring a basic understanding of urban contexts for staff engaging in urban crisis response by 2020; (2) actively support the core functions of the Alliance by providing support through joint advocacy, sharing information and contributing to evidence building; (3) tailor humanitarian response to the urban context by developing shared assessment and profiling tools, promoting joint analysis, and adapting coordination mechanisms; (4) develop or work with existing global, regional and national rosters to facilitate the deployment of urban leaders, managers and technical experts; (5) build the evidence base on the specific characteristics of protracted displacement in urban areas, and contribute to the design of appropriate and cost-effective responses, with particular regard to protection of vulnerable people, shelter and basic services and infrastructure; (6) ensure initiatives focused on building urban resilience incorporate components on resilient response and recovery from crises, and leverage greatest impact in cities most at risk of humanitarian emergencies; (7) produce a guidance note, in partnership with International Rescue Committee and the Norwegian Refugee Council, on how to operationalise area-based approaches and which will cover cash, private sector and market analysis, economic protection, and housing, land and property rights.

World Vision is committed to the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation (GAHI) as a key mechanism for prioritizing innovation and ensuring that it is an integral part of the new humanitarian business model. To this end World Vision will: (1) promote the development of lessons learned, best practices and evidence platform within the GAHI; (2) promote specific targets for expenditure on innovation and R&D as a global best practice amongst partner organizations; (3) promote programmes towards measurable outcomes; (4) champion innovations and approaches that can be replicated and scaled globally and promote the adoption of innovative products and processes; and (5) develop and lead practice groups for promoting specific innovations in response to humanitarian challenges and leverage existing networks and solutions for the purposes of supporting the priorities of the GAHI.

World Vision will improve health outcomes through cross-sectoral action on food, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene.

World Vision will increase its investment in humanitarian research and learning and collaboration with others, such as ELRHA, Evidence Aid, R2HC, ALNAP, to strengthen the evidence base in protracted crises, conflicts and disasters and to promote specific targets for expenditure on R&D as a global best practice.

World Vision will provide an essential package of health services to protect and promote the health and nutrition needs of the most vulnerable women, children and adolescents in humanitarian settings.