Protection in humanitarian action

Many of the users of this online working group may have attended one of the workshops on humanitarian protection facilitated by the Inspire Consortium. You can find in this page a guide for navigating thorugh the workshop materials, so that you may have a look at them again (the presentations, for example) in the right order, or you may pick up a specific one.

For your convenience, all the materials used during the workshop are named according to the module in which they were used (M1 through M6). Then a “P” means “presentation” (either PowerPoint or Prezi (these Prezi presentations are online, you have the link and also the transcription in PDF), and a “HO” means “hand out”.

For example:

M2.P1.-(title): It is the first presentation used in Module 2.

M4.HO.-(title): It is a hand out which belongs to Module 4.

You will be able to follow the logic flow of the workshop if you have a look first at the workshop agenda (I) and then at the modules and materials you may be interested in (II).

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I.- WORKSHOP AGENDA

Module M1: Introduction

Module M2: A “GENERALIST” (STRATEGIC) APPROACH TO PROTECTION WORK

Objectives:

By the end of module M2, participants will be able to:

• Handle the main concepts and dimensions around protection

• Assess the main protection objectives of a project proposal (both for protection proposals and for mainstreaming protection in wider proposals

Module M3: NORMATIVE FRAMEWORKS IN PROTECTION

Objectives:

By the end of module M3, participants will:

• Have an overview of the international standards for civilian protection and how they can be used by humanitarian organizations

• Identify the key players in humanitarian protection, what responsibilities, roles, or actions, they might have/take, and how they function in reality.

• Be able to apply the core aspects of the main normative frameworks when assessing the protection objectives of a project proposal.

Module M4: STRATEGIC APPROACHES TO PROTECTION WORK

Objectives:

By the end of module M3, participants will be able to:

• Assess the different strategic approaches to protection

• from the point of view of the objective of the protection activities

• from the point of view of the relation that is established with the duty-bearer stakeholder

• Take into account the limits and risks for each approach.

• Propose an action-oriented approach for key protection dilemmas and challenges.

Module M5: PROTECTION IN THE PROJECT CYCLE MANAGEMENT

Objectives:

By the end of module M4, participants will be able to:

• Assess a project proposal from the point of view of protection (focused on projects which include protection objectives, and on projects mainstreaming protection aspects into their objectives).

• Point out which are the main strengths and weaknesses of the project, from the point of view of its main protection aspects.

Module M6: FINAL POINTS AND CLOSURE

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II.- MATERIALS.

List of materials:

Module 1:

M1.P.- Objectives of workshop (a Prezi presentation with the objectives of the workshop)

M1.HO1.- Inspire Consortium communication paper (Presentation of Inspire Consortium)

M1.HO2.- Agenda WS-Protection Training (standard)

Module 2:

M2.P.- A generalist approach to protection (a Prezi presentation with an overview of the definition(s) of protection, who is who -stakeholders around protection work-, introduction to a risk approach to protection work -protection needs as risks-, and which are the three core objectives in humanitarian protection work)

Module 3:

M3.P1.- International normative frameworks for protection (a PPT presentation with a detailed introduction to the topic)

M3.P2.- IDP-Refugee legislation comparison (a short PPT presentation with a comparison between these two bodies of law)

M3.HO.- Overall view of normative frameworks (a one page hand out with a summary of the main normative frameworks applicable to humanitarian protection)

Module 4:

M4.P1.- Normative frameworks inform protection work (a Prezi presentation explaining how normative frameworks may be used for defining protection objectives in projects)

M4.P2.- An example of final risk assessment (a Prezi presentation showing a fictional final product of a risk assessment for protection purposes)

M4.P3.- A strategic approach to assessing a scenario (a PPT presentation explaining the steps to assess a protection scenario)

M4.P4.- Inter-agency coordination for projects (a short PPT presentation explaining how inter-agency coordination works at field level)

M4.P5.- Risks in humanitarian protection work (a PPT presentation explaining how certain protection activities can be assessed from the point of view of the risks and assumptions of the logical framework).

M4.P6.- DG ECHO mandate and protection (a PPT presentation with an introduction to the mandate and practice of DG ECHO in relation to humanitarian protection).

M4.HO1.-GP as framework for T-V-C (a one page document explaining how the IDP Guiding Principles may be used for assessing the threats, vulnerabilities and capacities of displaced people) M4.HO2.- Refugee law as framework for T-V-C (a one page document explaining how Refugee Law may be used for assessing the threats, vulnerabilities and capacities of refugees)

M4.HO3.- Strategic approach in relation to d-b stakeholders (a HO explaining how protection projects may be related to duty-bearer stakeholders in a given scenario)

M4.HO4.- Strategic mapping with outputs (a HO with practical examples of former HO)

M4.HO5.- Capacity-will matrix for duty-bearer stakeholders (a HO showing how to map capacity and will of duty bearer stakeholders in relation to protection)

Module 5:

M5.P1.- An itinerary in protection assessment (a Prezi presentation with a review of all the steps taken to assess protection until this point of the workshop -taking stock-)

M5.P2.- Protection in projects (a Prezi presentation explaining how projects include protection objectives and how they mainstream protection)

M5.P3.- Guidance for assessing projects (a PPT presentation explaining how to assess projects from the point of view of vertical protection -explicit protection objectives- and from the point of view of how they mainstream protection (in relation to other humantiarian assistance objectives)

Module 6:

(no relevant materials)