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title: "Our commitments at the World Humanitarian Summit"
url: "https://www.nrc.no/news/2016/mai/our-commitments-at-the-world-humanitarian-summit"
language: "en"
published: "2016-05-18T11:11:00Z"
modified: "2016-06-13T10:12:00Z"
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# Our commitments at the World Humanitarian Summit

Published 18. May 2016

This article was first published more than 10 years ago

As part of the first World Humanitarian Summit and in line with our mission to protect the most vulnerable people in the world, we commit to the following:

#### We commit to upholding the norms that safeguard humanity

- We commit to ensuring that the protection of civilians is central to our work.
- We commit to implementing strong risk management systems which are aimed at lowering the risk of aid diversion.
- We commit to providing impartial assistance and protection based on needs alone, rather than being influenced by political agendas such as countering violent extremism.
- We commit to defending humanitarian principles through assistance and advocacy.
- We commit to defending the legal instruments established to protect displaced people.
- We commit to working to ensure protection leadership, protection coordination and protection outcomes are achieved across the humanitarian system.
- We commit to advocating for states to sign and implement the 2015 Safe Schools Declaration, and associated guidelines.

#### We commit to leave no one behind

- We commit to always asking 'are we reaching those most in need?'
- We commit to defending the 1951 Refugee Convention.
- We commit to supporting regional protection mechanisms.
- We commit to continuously highlighting the plight of displaced people.
- We commit to actively supporting the right of people to seek asylum.
- We commit to advocating for global responsibility-sharing for the protection of displaced people.
- We commit to eliminating gaps in education for children and youth.

#### We commit to transition from delivering aid to ending need

- We commit to strive to implement programmes which work towards finding durable solutions to displacement.
- We commit to providing global data which will assist responses to internal displacement.
- We commit to supporting the integration of displacement within disaster risk reduction, climate change and development plans.
- We commit to building the capacity of partners to strengthen disaster risk reduction efforts related to disaster and climate displacement.
- We commit to contributing to improvements regarding how the aid industry communicates with communities affected by crisis.
- We commit to bridging the gap between prevention, response and recovery.

#### We commit to improve humanitarian financing

- We commit to always asking 'Why not cash? And if not now, when?'
- We commit to scaling up cash programmes.
- We commit to advocate for humanitarian response plans to use multi-purpose cash assistance wherever appropriate.
- We commit to building capacity within our cash transfer programming and coordination.
- We commit to encouraging donors to develop flexible funding mechanisms which bridge the gap between humanitarian and development action.

(This is a summary of NRC’s commitments at the World Humanitarian Summit)