GPC Protection Mainstreaming

1. GPC Protection Mainstreaming >Training Package, Powerpoint Presentation

2. Blue Module Slides

3. Blue Module Learning Outcomes After this module, participants will be able to: • Describe what protection mainstreaming in humanitarian responses means • Acknowledge its relevance and value to humanitarian operations • Cite examples of protection mainstreaming in practice that are relevant to their current context • Demonstrate their understanding of the four key elements of protection mainstreaming

4. Definition of Protection Mainstreaming • “The process of incorporating protection principles and promoting meaningful access, safety and dignity in humanitarian aid.”

5. Definition of Accountability • “Accountability to beneficiaries: set-up appropriate mechanisms through which affected populations can measure the adequacy of interventions, or address concerns and complaints.”

6. 5 IASC Accountability Commitments • Leadership/Governance • Transparency • Feedback and complaints • Participation • Design, monitoring and evaluation

7. Leadership/Governance: • Demonstrate their commitment to accountability to affected populations by ensuring feedback and accountability mechanisms are integrated into country strategies, program proposals, monitoring and evaluations, recruitment, staff inductions, trainings and performance management, partnership agreements, and highlighted in reporting.

8. Transparency: • Provide accessible and timely information to affected populations on organisational procedures, structures and processes that affect them to ensure that they can make informed decisions and choices, and facilitate a dialogue between an organisation and its affected populations over information provision.

9. Feedback and Complaints: • Actively seek the views of affected populations to improve policy and practice in programming, ensuring that feedback and complaints mechanisms are streamlined, appropriate and robust enough to deal with (communicate, receive, process, respond to and learn from) complaints about breaches in policy and stakeholder dissatisfaction.

10. Participation: • Enable affected populations to play an active role in the decision-making processes that affect them through the establishment of clear guidelines and practices to engage them appropriately and ensure that the most marginalised and affected are represented and have influence.

11. Design, Monitoring and Evaluation: • Design, monitor and evaluate the goals and objectives of programs with the involvement of affected populations, feeding learning back into the organisation on an on-going basis and reporting on the results of the process.

12. Definition of Participation and Empowerment • “Participation and Empowerment: support the development of self-protection capacities and assist people to claim their rights, including - not exclusively - the rights to shelter, food, water and sanitation, health and education.”

13. The Participation Ladder • Ownership • Interactive • Functional • Material Motivation • Consultation • Information Transfer • Passive

14. Summary Statement on Empowerment • Empowerment is not something that is “done” to people; it is the process by which individuals in the community analyse their situation, enhance their knowledge and resources, strengthen their capacity to claim their rights, and take action to achieve their goals.

15. Blue Module - Summary of Key Messages • Protection mainstreaming enables people to access and enjoy their rights within any sector program • Protection mainstreaming is defined as: “The process of incorporating protection principles and promoting meaningful access, safety and dignity in humanitarian aid.” • There are four key elements of protection mainstreaming: Prioritise safety and dignity and avoid causing harm; Meaningful Access; Accountability; and Participation and Empowerment.

16. Red Module Slides

17. Red Module Learning Outcomes After this module, participants will be able to: • Describe what protection mainstreaming in humanitarian responses means • Appreciate the relevance and value of protection mainstreaming to humanitarian operations and promote this to others, including the Humanitarian Country Team, and cluster leads in-country • Demonstrate their understanding of the four key elements of protection mainstreaming and analyse their practical application throughout the program cycle • Determine concrete steps to ensure protection is mainstreamed in coordinated funding processes

18. Red Module - Session 1 Why Mainstream Protection?

19. Red Module - Session 1 Learning Outcomes After this session, participants will be able to: • Appreciate the relevance and value of protection mainstreaming to humanitarian operations • Recognise that protection mainstreaming is the responsibility of all humanitarian actors

20. Red Module - Session 1 Summary of Key Messages • All humanitarian actors have a role to play in protection mainstreaming • By mainstreaming protection actors can support people to safely access and enjoy their rights and humanitarian services

21. Red Module – Session 2 Key Elements of Protection Mainstreaming

22. Red Module – Session 2 Learning Outcomes After this session, participants will be able to: • Describe the key elements of protection mainstreaming in humanitarian responses • Apply the key elements of protection mainstreaming in practical and concrete ways • Recognise that they are already ‘doing’ a lot of protection mainstreaming • Critically identify some of the enablers and challenges for protection mainstreaming and plan accordingly

23. Definition of Protection Mainstreaming • “The process of incorporating protection principles and promoting meaningful access, safety and dignity in humanitarian aid.”

24. Definition of Accountability • “Accountability to beneficiaries: set-up appropriate mechanisms through which affected populations can measure the adequacy of interventions, or address concerns and complaints.”

25. 5 IASC Accountability Commitments • Leadership/Governance • Transparency • Feedback and complaints • Participation • Design, monitoring and evaluation

26. Leadership/Governance: • Demonstrate their commitment to accountability to affected populations by ensuring feedback and accountability mechanisms are integrated into country strategies, program proposals, monitoring and evaluations, recruitment, staff inductions, trainings and performance management, partnership agreements, and highlighted in reporting.

27. Transparency: • Provide accessible and timely information to affected populations on organisational procedures, structures and processes that affect them to ensure that they can make informed decisions and choices, and facilitate a dialogue between an organisation and its affected populations over information provision.

28. Feedback and Complaints: • Actively seek the views of affected populations to improve policy and practice in programming, ensuring that feedback and complaints mechanisms are streamlined, appropriate and robust enough to deal with (communicate, receive, process, respond to and learn from) complaints about breaches in policy and stakeholder dissatisfaction.

29. Participation: • Enable affected populations to play an active role in the decision-making processes that affect them through the establishment of clear guidelines and practices to engage them appropriately and ensure that the most marginalised and affected are represented and have influence.

30. Design, Monitoring and Evaluation: • Design, monitor and evaluate the goals and objectives of programs with the involvement of affected populations, feeding learning back into the organisation on an on-going basis and reporting on the results of the process.

31. Definition of Participation and Empowerment • “Participation and Empowerment: support the development of self-protection capacities and assist people to claim their rights, including - not exclusively - the rights to shelter, food, water and sanitation, health and education.”

32. The Participation Ladder • Ownership • Interactive • Functional • Material Motivation • Consultation • Information Transfer • Passive

33. Summary Statement on Empowerment • Empowerment is not something that is “done” to people; it is the process by which individuals in the community analyse their situation, enhance their knowledge and resources, strengthen their capacity to claim their rights, and take action to achieve their goals.

34. Red Module – Session 2 Summary of Key Messages • There are four key elements critical to protection mainstreaming: Prioritise safety and dignity and avoid causing harm; Meaningful Access; Accountability; and Participation and Empowerment. • Good humanitarian programming is central to protection mainstreaming, but it also requires intentional, proactive steps to support safe and dignified programs

35. Red Module – Session 3 Coordination for Protection Mainstreaming

36. Red Module – Session 3 Learning Outcomes After this session, participants will be able to: • Recognise the responsibilities of the protection cluster and the other clusters regarding protection mainstreaming • Contribute protection mainstreaming ideas to the consolidated appeals (now SRP) process in-country and into strategy planning of HCT and other clusters

37. Guidance on Protection Mainstreaming in Consolidated Appeals • Key Documents: • 2014 Strategic Response Planning – Guidance • 2014 Strategic Response Plan – Template Annotated • Guidance Note for Consolidated Appeals for Protection Clusters • Strategic Response Plan Guidance for 2015 • Key Points: • Cluster plans within the SRP must outline plans for protection mainstreaming • Cluster partners must agree on the terminology for protection mainstreaming as SRP planning commences

38. Red Module – Session 3 Summary of Key Messages • Inter-cluster and Intra-cluster coordination is critical to facilitating protection mainstreaming • The field protection cluster has an important role in supporting other clusters to mainstream protection; it is the responsibility of the cluster leads to ensure protection mainstreaming happens • Consolidated appeals processes provide an important opportunity to ensure that protection is mainstreamed into humanitarian response.

39. Red Module – Session 4 Closing and Evaluation

40. Revisit: Red Module Learning Outcomes • After this module, participants will be able to: • Describe what protection mainstreaming in humanitarian responses means • Appreciate the relevance and value of protection mainstreaming to humanitarian operations and promote this to others, including the Humanitarian Country Team, and cluster leads in-country • Demonstrate their understanding of the four key elements of protection mainstreaming and analyse their practical application throughout the program cycle • Determine concrete steps to ensure protection is mainstreamed in coordinated funding processes

41. Yellow Module Slides

42. Yellow Module Learning Outcomes After this module, participants will be able to: • Describe what protection mainstreaming in humanitarian responses means • Appreciate the relevance and value of protection mainstreaming to humanitarian operations and promote this to others • Cite concrete examples of protection mainstreaming in practice that are relevant to their current humanitarian operation • Demonstrate their understanding of the four key elements of protection mainstreaming and analyse their practical application throughout the program cycle • Recall the different tools and resources they can use to support protection mainstreaming efforts and activities

43. Yellow Module - Session 1 Why Mainstream Protection?

44. Yellow Module - Session 1 Learning Outcomes After this session, participants will be able to: • Appreciate the relevance and value of protection mainstreaming to humanitarian operations and promote this to others, including the Humanitarian Country Team, and cluster leads in-country • Recognise that protection mainstreaming is the responsibility of all humanitarian actors

45. Yellow Module - Session 1 Summary of Key Messages • All humanitarian actors have a role to play in protection mainstreaming • By mainstreaming protection actors can support people to safely access and enjoy their rights and humanitarian services

46. Yellow Module – Session 2 What is Protection Mainstreaming?

47. Yellow Module – Session 2 Learning Outcomes After this session, participants will be able to: • Describe what protection mainstreaming in humanitarian responses means • Cite concrete examples of protection mainstreaming in practice that are relevant to their current humanitarian operation

48. Definition of Protection Mainstreaming • “The process of incorporating protection principles and promoting meaningful access, safety and dignity in humanitarian aid.”

49. Yellow Module – Session 2 Summary of Key Messages • The Global Protection Cluster defines protection mainstreaming as “the process of incorporating protection principles and promoting meaningful access, safety and dignity in humanitarian aid” • Protection mainstreaming focuses not on what we do (the product) but rather on how we do it (the process) • Protection should be mainstreamed through all sectors and all phases of the program/project cycle

50. Yellow Module – Session 3Key Elements of Protection Mainstreaming