Commitment title:

Humanitarian action

Commitment description:

  1. Preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence by applying the “Leave No One Behind” principle and follow a needs-based approach, while paying special attention to the “forgotten” and underfunded crises, and by continuing to provide support to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and humanitarian Country Based Pooled Funds (CBPF).

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    Through its Development Cooperation, Luxembourg pledges to ensure a gender-sensitive engagement in humanitarian action, by:
Commitment to be actioned in: global
Submitted from: global
Submitted by
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Thematic area
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts
Commitment category

(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.