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.
2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- CANADEM commits to adopt the IASC statement on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse at the individual agency level.
- Policy
- Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- CANADEM commits to make sustained funding conditional on the systematic collection of feedback from affected people on the quality and utility of humanitarian programmes.
- Financial
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- CANADEM commits to establishing a common approach to providing information to affected people and collecting, aggregating and analysing feedback from communities to influence decision-making processes at strategic and operational levels.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- CANADEM commits to adopt the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard, with clear benchmarks for achieving these through the CHS Alliance self-assessment tool.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
4C
Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- CANADEM commits to connect existing rosters of humanitarian and development workers and work towards establishment of regional and national rosters with a particular expertise in urban and local government issues.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- CANADEM commits to make its screened roster of 27,000 humanitarian and development experts accessible free of charge to all members of the Global Alliance for Urban Crisis.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- CANADEM commits to use country cluster platforms to put urban expertise in the cluster coordination team and/or deploy capacity to appropriate local authorities.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- CANADEM commits to connect and coordinate training activities with other Global Alliance for Urban Crisis partners.
- Training
- 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
- CANADEM commits to adopt the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard, with clear benchmarks for achieving these through the CHS Alliance self-assessment tool.
- Policy
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity