ALL THEMES
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Humanitarian Principles and Global Standards
- Quality Humanitarian Project Management & Implementation
- Emergency Preparedness & Early Action
- Beneficiary Selection
- Distributions
- Humanitarian Donors & Rapid Funding
- Partnerships & Coordination
- Cash and Vouchers Assistance in Emergencies
- Markets in Emergencies
- Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
- Nutrition in Emergencies
- WASH in Emergencies
- Shelter, NFIs & Settlements in Emergencies
- Education in Emergencies
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
- Inclusion and gender
- Teacher Professional Development
- Learning Outcomes
- Labour market assessment and employment
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
- One World in Schools (OWIS)
- Child Protection and Well-Being
- PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools
Emergency Preparedness and Response
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your emergency programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This resource explains PIN's commitments and priorities in terms of humanitarian aid for the strategic period 2017-2021, including key priorities, expected results, required investments and actions, and relevant responsibilities.
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This resource lists the 10 fundamental humanitarian principles that PIN as well as other humanitarian actors adhere to. They give guidance on how humanitarian aid should be provided and what impacts should be sought for the affected population.
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This resource explains the minimum technical humanitarian standards used in four main programming areas, including WASH, food security and nutrition, shelter and NFIs, and health. It also includes the Humanitarian charter, Protection principles and Common Humanitarian Standard brief.
Humanitarian Principles and Global Standards
When can it be useful?
This resource lists the 10 fundamental humanitarian principles that PIN as well as other humanitarian actors adhere to. They give guidance on how humanitarian aid should be provided and what impacts should be sought for the affected population.
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This resource explains the nine commitments that humanitarian actors can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of their assistance. PIN strives to meet these commitments. The versions in 25 other languages can be downloaded from https://corehumanitarianstandard.org/the-standard/language-versions
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This resource explains the agreement, with its key actions, reached by humanitarian actors to put more resources in the hands of the people in need and reduce the humanitarian financial gap.
Emergency Preparedness & Early Action
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This resource explains PIN's commitments and priorities in terms of humanitarian aid for the strategic period 2017-2021, including key priorities, expected results, required investments and actions, and relevant responsibilities.
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This resource provides lessons learned from the development of the Early Warning System in Cambodia by PIN.
Distributions
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Best practices for food distributions (specifically for Covid-19 and also general best practices)
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This resource is aimed at Shelter/NFI team members working in distribution assessments, planning, implementation and post distribution monitoring of distributions of Shelter materials, NFIs and cash. It highlights ways in which distributions can reduce some of the risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and avoid doing harm. Simply put, this booklet is about good distributions.
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Best practices for food distributions (specifically for Covid-19 and also general best practices)
Humanitarian Donors & Rapid Funding
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This is the detailed guide on accessing the Start Fund.
Cash and Vouchers Assistance in Emergencies
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to Cash and Voucher Assistance.
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This resource provides you with very practical tips and recommendations on what to be careful about and how to adjust your CVA interventions to the COVID-19 contexts.
Markets in Emergencies
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to Market and Private Sector related section.
Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
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Nutrition in Emergencies
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This link will take you to the KLC section dedicated to nutrition security.
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to nutrition in humanitarian programs.
WASH in Emergencies
When can it be useful?
This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to WASH.
Shelter, NFIs & Settlements in Emergencies
Also available in: Arabic
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These practical guidelines provide a comprehensive technical standard operating procedure for shelter repair and rehabilitation programmes in Syria. It contains practical tips and guidance for all phases of project cycle. It was developed specifically for Syria but if adapted to local context, could be a good inspiration and useful resource for other countries and shelter repair projects.
Also available in: Arabic, French
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This resource provides a comprehensive guide on how to design disability-inclusive emergency response and shelter program.
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This resource can help you to introduce HLP to field staff.
Education in Emergencies
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to Education.
COVID-19 Response
This site offers the most useful resources for your COVID-19 response activities (make sure that you are logged in the internal version of KLC so that you can see all the available resources). It is updated several times a week. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please. Explore also additional guidance included in other thematic sections of this website.
Key Resources
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This e-learning provides key information on COVID-19, how to protect yourself and how to engage communities. Available in multiple languages.
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This site provides a useful overview of questions & answers on COVID-19.
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This site includes guidance on applying the Sphere standards to COVID-19 response activities.
Protecting Staff and Beneficiaries
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This e-learning provides key information on COVID-19, how to protect yourself and how to engage communities. Available in multiple languages.
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WHO guidance video and materials on when and how to use a mask.
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Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for distributions taking COVID-19 prevention measures into account – Syria Food Security example that is relevant to many other countries.
Awareness Raising & Behaviour Change Communication
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This brief outlines findings and recommendations on four key aspects of effective communication with communities and countering misinformation about COVID-19 risks: language, format, relevant content and channel.
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This site offers a (frequently updated) overview of useful COVID-19 behaviour change communication guidance, tools and various materials (posters, leaflets, etc.)
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This short guidance is a part of PIN's Behaviour Change Toolkit. It explains how to design and pre-test your communication messages and materials.
Public Health and WASH
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WHO guidance on a range of infection prevention and control topics.
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WHO technical brief on WASH in text context of COVID-19.
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This document provides an example of a COVID-19 hygiene kit (Iraq WASH Cluster COVID-19 guidance).
Nutrition and Care
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A compilation of resources published by the Global Nutrition Cluster (updated regularly).
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This resource briefly explains the family MUAC approach and contains useful links to communities of practice.
Also available in: French
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This guide is designed to assist health and nutrition staff responsible for the management and coordination of Community-based Management of Acute
Malnutrition (CMAM) operations to adapt and modify programme modalities in the context of COVID-19.
Training and Education
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This Activity Book includes a collection of 60 activities to support children’s (and adult's) physical, social, emotional and cognitive wellbeing. It can be used by caregivers to provide activities for children at home or by facilitators to run activities with groups of children.
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These two guides provide guidance to teachers and parents/caregivers on how to support children's learning and wellbeing during school closures, and continuing once schools reopen. The guides may need to be adapted to local contexts, and where possible, they should be accompanied by contextualised illustrations to support lower literacy households.
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This document talks through key messages and actions for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in schools. It also provides practical checklists to help organizations adhere to relevant guidance in their educational work with different groups, including schools, parents, communities and children
Market-Based Programming
When can it be useful?
This resource provides key notes to consider during each step of the project cycle in cash and voucher assistance (CVA), in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This resource provides practical guidance on what to consider when adjusting your CVA responses to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, to reduce risks and contribute to minimizing the spread of COVID-19, while ensuring your responses remain flexible to the changing market context.
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This resource provides a brief overview of and links to the different market assessment guidance and tools that exist for humanitarian contexts, it can be useful when deciding which tool is best for your information needs.
Food Security
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This site of the Global Food Security Cluster provides a list of the most important and useful programming guidance materials.
When can it be useful?
This resource provides key notes to consider during each step of the project cycle in cash and voucher assistance (CVA), in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This resource looks across the broad range of impacts of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, providing forecasts, evidence, analysis, and recommendations for more effective policy responses to support food security.
Good Governance
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This document explains community engagement and risk communication framework. It is designed primarily for higher-level actors but provides useful information and guidance even for interventions at a lower level.
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This statement highlights the core advocacy messages related to ensuring human rights in the context of COVID-19 crisis and various emergency measures taken by the governments. It was produced by the European Partnership for Democracy, a network of organizations (including PIN) that work on defending democracy and human rights issues globally.
MEAL
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A collection of briefly-summarized best practices for conducting phone surveys.
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This toolkit provides practical tips and guidance on conducting remote (phone-based) surveys. Focus primarily on chapters 1 and 2.
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CHS Alliance guidance on how to meet quality and accountability commitments in the time of COVID-19. Includes links to many other useful resources.
Protection, Gender and Inclusion
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This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19
Also available in: Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian
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This short guidance provides key messages on how to ensure protection, gender and inclusion is considered in the response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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This resource provides practical guidance on how to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement.
Formal and Informal Camps and Camp-Like Settlements
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This guidance describes specific needs and considerations required for providing humanitarian assistance in formal and informal camps and camp-like settings as well as the surrounding host communities, aiming at scaling-up readiness and response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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This brief sets out key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19.
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Interim guidance on Shelter and Settlements Response to COVID-19 with tips for key emergency actions for shelter and settlements response, considerations for settlement planning and improved shelter.
Cash and Voucher Assistance
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your cash and voucher assistance (CVA). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
When can it be useful?
Here you can find practical guidance on indicators that are most commonly used in cash and voucher assistance in emergencies. It is based on the aid agencies’ field experience and best practices promoted by CaLP, donors and other stakeholders.
When can it be useful?
The programme quality toolbox is a set of common standards and actions for quality Cash Based Assistance (CBA) which defines 'what' needs to happen for quality CBA. Each action is supported by a set of guidelines and ready to use tools and templates on 'how' to achieve quality CBA. The toolbox is the main supporting documentation on CBA in the 2018 Sphere Handbook.
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The primary objectives of this Glossary are to provide clarity and encourage common understanding and harmonized use of terms and definitions for cash and voucher assistance.
Introduction to Cash and Voucher Assistance
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The main website of The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), a global partnership of humanitarian actors engaged in policy, practice and research within Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA).
When can it be useful?
The primary objectives of this Glossary are to provide clarity and encourage common understanding and harmonized use of terms and definitions for cash and voucher assistance.
When can it be useful?
This is an online discussion group on all things cash and voucher assistance, and a useful way to keep abreast of related discussions and pose key questions to the broader cash and voucher assistance community.
Needs Assessment & Response Analysis
Also available in: English
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These documents constitute the final draft of the Basic Needs Assessment (BNA) Guidance and Toolbox, commissioned by Save the Children within the broader framework for the uptake of quality, collaborative multipurpose grants (MPGs).
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The ROAP ultimately leads to the selection of the most appropriate, operationally feasible, and cost efficient response options to achieve sector and inter-sector objectives for specific target groups and geographic areas. It considers in-kind transfers, direct service delivery, vouchers, cash transfers, and combinations of those.
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The “Cash Feasibility and Response Analysis Toolkit” aims to assist operations in determining the feasibility of cash-based interventions (CBIs) in UNHCR country programmes. The toolkit brings together new tools and knowledge on conducting cash feasibility assessments and response analysis that have emerged since the publication of the UNHCR Operational Guidelines for Cash-based Interventions (OG)
Modalities
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The Cash Transfer Implementation Guide is written for Program Managers actively managing cash transfer programs. If you are reading this Implementation Guide, it is assumed you are familiar with the preconditions for CTP and the advantages and disadvantages of cash transfer programs. If not, please read the Cash Transfer Programming Methodology Guide.
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This operational guidance and toolkit brings together worldwide expertise on cash-based interventions (CBIs). It provides comprehensive and practical guidance for humanitarian actors to assess the feasibility, conceptualise the design and structure the implementation of MPGs.
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If you are reading the Voucher and Fair Implementation Guide (Voucher Guide), we assume you are familiar with the preconditions for CTP and the advantages and disadvantages of voucher programs. As such, the Voucher Guide is written for the active design and implementation of cash, restricted cash, and commodity voucher programs and/or fairs.
Transfer Mechanisms
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The report aims to share a range of previous and ongoing experience in the delivery of cash, in order to assist relief workers to efficiently and effectively undertake cash-based responses.
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Recognising the need to complement the Guidelines with practical tools that can be used by field practitioners, UNHCR developed a Cash Delivery Mechanism Assessment Tool (CDMAT) in 2016 to help field teams to assess the adequacy of various cash delivery mechanisms to meet programme needs.
When can it be useful?
The Cash Transfer Implementation Guide is written for Program Managers actively managing cash transfer programs. If you are reading this Implementation Guide, it is assumed you are familiar with the preconditions for CTP and the advantages and disadvantages of cash transfer programs. If not, please read the Cash Transfer Programming Methodology Guide.
Sectors
When can it be useful?
Evidence is lacking on how far multi-purpose cash contributes to sectoral outcomes in health, WASH, shelter, food security
and nutrition, education, livelihoods, energy and environment programming, and how sectoral interventions should include multi-purpose cash along with other activities to best reach intended sectoral outcomes that contribute to protection. This report helps address this gap.
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This report examines the body of research that provides evidence of the impact of CTP on education and child protection outcomes and provides a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of existing evidence and identifies gaps in the knowledge base for future research prioritisation.
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These case studies are intended to serve as a platform for more discussion and review on promising and best practices in how and when to utilize cash to achieve shelter outcomes.
Market Analysis
When can it be useful?
This resource is a set of standards (similar to the Sphere Standards), indicators and guidance on conducting market assessments/analysis in disaster or early recovery contexts (to ensure interventions can help meet basic needs while using and strengthening markets in this process), they have been designed to be used by non-market specialists across sectors.
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This is an online discussion group on all things markets in crisis, and a useful way to keep abreast of related discussions and pose key questions to the broader markets in crisis community.
Also available in: French, Spanish
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This resource is a set of tools and guidance notes for front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate, and make use of market systems, it provides detailed guidance on each of the steps involved in market assessment.
Monitoring & Evaluation
When can it be useful?
This guidance provides a central ‘living’ resource to promote a common understanding of the most important monitoring considerations for humanitarian projects using cash transfer programming (CTP).
When can it be useful?
Here you can find practical guidance on indicators that are most commonly used in cash and voucher assistance in emergencies. It is based on the aid agencies’ field experience and best practices promoted by CaLP, donors and other stakeholders.
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This paper examines how cash transfers, as well as vouchers, are incorporated in Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) in 2018, as these are key planning documents for international humanitarian assistance.
Cross-Cutting Topics
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This study tests the commonly held assumption that greater collaboration results in greater efficiency or effectiveness. It establishes drivers and measures of efficiency and effectiveness in CTP delivery; characterises different models of collaboration for cash delivery; and assesses these different models against the measures of efficiency and effectiveness.
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This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of seven institutional models for cash coordination, as well as the level of stakeholder endorsement for each option.
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This systematic review attempts to fill an evidence gap by reviewing a comprehensive list of indicators around outcomes
for children in health, food security, nutrition, protection, and education. These indicators include both those that indirectly
concern children, such as maternal health status, as well as those that directly affect children, such as the child’s health.
Training Materials
When can it be useful?
This session will introduce you to the fundamentals of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and will help you to begin understanding it. No knowledge of CVA is required to do this course.
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A comprehensive selection of trainings on Cash & Livelihoods Interventions.
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This 5-day course, developed by the Fritz Institute in conjunction with CaLP, is structured around the humanitarian project cycle and allows a range of operations staff to understand their role and function in the design, implementation and monitoring of cash and voucher assistance.
Market Development
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your market development programming (covering market systems development and other private sector development approaches). If you feel that an important resource is missing, please let us know.
Key Resources
When can it be useful?
This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to improving people’s livelihoods and protecting the natural environment.
When can it be useful?
This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s access to products and services that can improve their lives, through effective engagement of the private sector.
When can it be useful?
This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s demand for products and services that can improve their lives through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems approach.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This video provides an overview of a livestock market development project implemented by PIN and partners in Cambodia, and includes an overview of the constraints the project was aimed at addressing and how these were being addressed.
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This resource features practical project examples and lessons from PINs market systems development programming across different countries.
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This website includes a range of resources on market systems development with a particular focus on market-based approaches and behaviour change.
Market Assessments
When can it be useful?
This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to assist poor producers to sell their products in more profitable markets through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems development approach.
When can it be useful?
This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s demand for products and services that can improve their lives through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems approach.
When can it be useful?
This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s access to products and services that can improve their lives, through effective engagement of the private sector.
Labour Market Assessments and Employment
When can it be useful?
This good practice guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on engaging the private sector to ensure that Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes sustainably increase access to productive and fulfilling employment opportunities.
When can it be useful?
This is a practical example of a labour market assessment report from an assessment conducted by PIN in Mosul Iraq to identify employment opportunities (with a specific focus on women and people with disabilities), it can be useful when planning or conducting a labour market assessment in a recovery context, the assessment tools are included in Annex.
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This guide aims to help humanitarians conduct better labour market analyses (LMA) to inform the design and delivery of livelihoods and market strengthening programmes in emergency and post-crisis settings.
Facilitation Approaches
When can it be useful?
This website page has an extensive range of resources (guides, publications, tools, case studies) on the topic of market facilitation used in market systems development projects.
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This brief learning note summarises lessons learned on facilitation tactics from ILO market system projects, it includes a link to an online roleplaying game to test your facilitation skills.
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This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to assist poor producers to sell their products in more profitable markets through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems development approach.
Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships
When can it be useful?
This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s access to products and services that can improve their lives, through effective engagement of the private sector.
When can it be useful?
This toolkit provides comprehensive guidance (including practical tools, templates and case studies) on how to effectively building strategic partnerships with the private sector, it can be particularly useful when working with larger companies, Tool 4 is a practical tool and checklist for a Due Diligence assessment of a potential private partner.
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This document describes the key guiding principles that inform Hivos' partnerships and support to the private sector, it draws from the UN Global Compact's ten principles and covers important topics such as human rights, gender, labour, corruption and the environment.
Value Chain Development
When can it be useful?
This website provides guidance on the value chain development approach, ranging from introductory information to more detailed guidance, it can be useful when wanting to understand different concepts and terms.
Also available in: Spanish, French, Russian
When can it be useful?
This guide provides guidance on the value chain development approach as applied by the ILO (so with a specific focus on employment), it is shorter than most other guides (24 pages) and therefore can be a useful way to quickly review guidance on this topic.
When can it be useful?
This guide provides practical guidance on how to support value chain development to create 'decent work' employment opportunities and improve working conditions in targeted sectors, it covers initial assessments, sector selection, implementation and monitoring.
Monitoring and Evaluation of MSD
When can it be useful?
This website provides guidance on the use of practical indicators for market development interventions.
When can it be useful?
This learning note by Mercy Corps provides practical advice on how to integrate an adaptive management approach into your programming, covering organisational culture, people and skills, and tools and systems.
When can it be useful?
This briefing paper on the Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond framework provides implementers with an approach to manage and measure the extent to which new behaviours and practices introduced by a project are owned and spread across an industry by project partners themselves ('systemic change').
Women's Economic Empowerment
When can it be useful?
This website page includes a range of resources (guides, publication, case studies, tools) on the topic of women's economic empowerment in market systems projects.
When can it be useful?
This website has an extensive array of resources (articles, evidence papers, guides etc) related to private sector development, including resources on MSD, women’s economic empowerment, engaging the private sector in fragile contexts, and on results measurement.
When can it be useful?
This document provides practical tools and guidance on supporting women’s empowerment in market systems development projects.
Markets in Emergency / Recovery Contexts
When can it be useful?
This Minimum Economic Recovery Standards are internationally recognized standards for building economic resilience for crisis-affected communities, they can be useful to review when designing and planning activities in humanitarian contexts.
Also available in: French, Spanish
When can it be useful?
This resource is a set of tools and guidance notes for front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate, and make use of market systems, it provides detailed guidance on each of the steps involved in market assessment.
When can it be useful?
This resource provides practical tips and examples on market support programming in humanitarian contexts.
Education and Skills
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your education and skills programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
When can it be useful?
This resource can help you in understanding PIN's Global Education and Skills Development Strategy for 2017-2020 including goals, priorities and global indicators.
When can it be useful?
This resource is divided into two Guides; "Part 1: WHAT EiE is, WHY we do it and what GUIDES us" and "Part 2: Planning, Implementing and Monitoring an EiE Response Introduction to PIN’s approach to EiE". They provide information on the theory of EiE, PIN’s EiE Framework,cross-cutting themes and step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and monitor EiE activities.
When can it be useful?
This link will take you to INDIKIT set of education and skills indicators, that can be used within your project proposal development.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
When can it be useful?
This research was conducted within the context of the TVET Imereti Project for PiN’s “Improving Formal, Non-formal and Informal Vocational Education for the Agribusiness in Georgia” project. The project is intended to improve the linkages between the labor market demands of the agribusiness sector, and the skills and qualifications offered by the formal, non-formal and informal VET.
When can it be useful?
This resources provides recommendations on how the VET sector, and particularly this project’s partner organizations (in this case in Imereti), can better engage with the private sector.
When can it be useful?
This resource provides structured guidance and a series of lesson plans to engage community members in activities aimed at improving social cohesion
Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
When can it be useful?
This resource is divided into two Guides; "Part 1: WHAT EiE is, WHY we do it and what GUIDES us" and "Part 2: Planning, Implementing and Monitoring an EiE Response Introduction to PIN’s approach to EiE". They provide information on the theory of EiE, PIN’s EiE Framework,cross-cutting themes and step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and monitor EiE activities.
When can it be useful?
This document outlines PIN's child-centred approach to education in emergencies (EiE)
When can it be useful?
This Guide provides key information on PIN’s approach to Psychosocial Support (PSS) – what it is, who it is for, when we do it and how we do it. It introduces the Framework that guides us and provides practical guidance and tools for how to design, implement and monitor PSS activities.
Inclusion and gender
When can it be useful?
This Toolkit provides useful tools, resources and case studies to reflect on and put into practice to make schools and classrooms more welcoming and inclusive for all children and teachers
When can it be useful?
This Module on Child Functioning is an international tool for assessment of functional difficulties in different domains incl. hearing, vision, communication/comprehension, learning, mobility and emotions.
When can it be useful?
This Guide provides information on key principles, advice and key actions to improve inclusivity of education in emergencies
Teacher Professional Development
When can it be useful?
This package of materials is based on the INEE Teachers in Crisis Contexts (TICC) materials. It includes tools and resources for conducting teacher training and professional development, including sample teacher training materials, M&E tools and guidance on establishing teacher learning circles (TLCs).
When can it be useful?
This resource provides guidance, techniques and tools for teachers to strengthen their classroom management skills and improve the inclusiveness of their classrooms
When can it be useful?
This guide will help you to become a better facilitator in delivering training and workshop. You will understand different learning styles, you will improve participatory facilitation skills, you will learn how to structure a training/workshop with adequate facilitation techniques.
Learning Outcomes
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This resource can help you in understanding the importance of children's learning as a process where all actors at different level should be included, at class level, school level and system level.
When can it be useful?
This resource identifies policy interventions that improve education quality and student learning in developing countries.
When can it be useful?
This package of tools provides guidance on what ASER is and how to conduct literacy and numeracy assessments using the ASER tools. It also includes sample ASER tools that can be adapted to a specific context as well as a reporting template.
Labour market assessment and employment
When can it be useful?
The three-part Market Assessment Toolkit for VT Providers and Youth is a combination of resources, questionnaires and activities to assist VT programs and youth to gather information on market demand and translate it into programming that responds to a dynamic business environment and youth needs.
When can it be useful?
This research was conducted within the context of the TVET Imereti Project for PiN’s “Improving Formal, Non-formal and Informal Vocational Education for the Agribusiness in Georgia” project. The project is intended to improve the linkages between the labor market demands of the agribusiness sector, and the skills and qualifications offered by the formal, non-formal and informal VET.
When can it be useful?
This website page involves a range of resources on employment creation, including publications that provide insights into solutions and challenges in creating jobs, it can be useful when searching for evidence on this topic.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
When can it be useful?
This good practice guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on engaging the private sector to ensure that Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes sustainably increase access to productive and fulfilling employment opportunities.
When can it be useful?
This resources provides recommendations on how the VET sector, and particularly this project’s partner organizations (in this case in Imereti), can better engage with the private sector.
When can it be useful?
This resource can help you with a curriculum development process.
Child Protection and Well-Being
When can it be useful?
This resource provides globally recognised minimum standards for Child Protection as well as key actions, measurements (including indicators and targets), and guidance notes on how to use these standards in practice
When can it be useful?
This Guide provides key information on PIN’s approach to Psychosocial Support (PSS) – what it is, who it is for, when we do it and how we do it. It introduces the Framework that guides us and provides practical guidance and tools for how to design, implement and monitor PSS activities.
When can it be useful?
This resource provides key tips for mainstreaming protection in education programmes. It is a useful checklist and guidance for education programme managers to improve child protection in schools and education activities.
PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools
When can it be useful?
This package of materials includes key M&E tools for Education in Emergencies (EiE) including school checklists, baseline and endline tools, child participation tools, school assessment and selection tools, a sample Logframe and a needs assessment template, which can also be used as a basis for developing key informant interviews (KIIs), household surveys and focus group discussions (FGDs).
When can it be useful?
This package of materials is based on the INEE Teachers in Crisis Contexts (TICC) materials. It includes tools and resources for conducting teacher training and professional development, including sample teacher training materials, M&E tools and guidance on establishing teacher learning circles (TLCs).
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This package of tools provides guidance on what ASER is and how to conduct literacy and numeracy assessments using the ASER tools. It also includes sample ASER tools that can be adapted to a specific context as well as a reporting template.
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to climate change mitigation and adaptation. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach and give you some examples on Productive and Climate-Resilient Landscapes
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The resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach on clean and low-carbon energy solutions (renewable energy, improved cook stoves, eco-briquets, etc.), also integrated in a Market Systems Development approach
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This journal provides both information on climate funds as well as examples of climate-related projects implemented by PIN
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach and give you some examples on Productive and Climate-Resilient Landscapes
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The resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach on clean and low-carbon energy solutions (renewable energy, improved cook stoves, eco-briquets, etc.), also integrated in a Market Systems Development approach
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This resource can help in understanding what are the climate vulnerabilities and how to increase climate resilience in the Western Province - Zambia, with a focus on climate-resilient agriculture and agri-businesses
Climate Change - General Resources
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Sixth Assessment Report from the IPCC on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - Summary for Policymakers. This resource can provide an overview on the most recent studies from the scientific community worldwide
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Sixth Assessment report from the IPCC (The Physical Science Basis - Summary for Policymakers) useful to understand global trends and scientific evidence of climate change
Assessing climate risk and vulnerability
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This resource can help in understanding what are the climate vulnerabilities and how to increase climate resilience in the Western Province - Zambia, with a focus on climate-resilient agriculture and agri-businesses
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Handbook to inform community-based adaptation, resilience and gender equality
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This resource can give you an overview on how to design a Climate Vulnerability Assessment at activity, project and strategy level and includes several examples and references.
Climate Change Adaptation
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This resource can help in understanding what are the climate vulnerabilities and how to increase climate resilience in the Western Province - Zambia, with a focus on climate-resilient agriculture and agri-businesses
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This resource provides lessons learned from the application of the Tepmachcha sensor units in Cambodia. These are used for automatic detection of rising water levels as a part of a flood early warning system.
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Sixth Assessment Report from the IPCC on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - Summary for Policymakers. This resource can provide an overview on the most recent studies from the scientific community worldwide
Climate Finance
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This table may inspire you when you are looking for funding for your climate-related project idea
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This journal provides both information on climate funds as well as examples of climate-related projects implemented by PIN
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This resource can help you identify existing sources of funds for climate change programmes and projects
Monitoring and Evaluation
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This resource can help in designing climate change indicators. It includes both climate change mitigation and adaptation performance measurement frameworks (PMFs), associated with proposed indicators, by the Green Climate Fund.
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The resource can help you in designing climate change adaptation indicators. This resource comes from a study made by adaptation and development M&E Experts on M&E systems at regional, national and sub-national levels.
Climate change and cross-cutting issues
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This resource provides the rationale and examples to understand the Gender-Climate-Security triple nexus at different levels
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This resource can help you understand the links between humans and zoonoses and how to prevent the next pandemic
Agriculture and Natural Resources Management
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to agriculture and natural resources management (NRM). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to improving people’s livelihoods and protecting the natural environment.
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This website can help you with selecting and using indicators for your agricultural, livelihoods and natural resources management interventions.
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This resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach and give you some examples on Productive and Climate-Resilient Landscapes
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This resource compiles the lessons learned from PIN's agricultural extension services projects in SNNPR, Ethiopia.
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This document presents best practices from PIN, MENDELU and other implementers' landscape management projects that were implemented in Ethiopia between 2010 and 2020, with the financial support of the Czech Development Assistance.
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This resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach and give you some examples on Productive and Climate-Resilient Landscapes
Approaches and practices
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This resource can help you understand the main concept behind good agricultural practices and help you with their promotion as a part of your agricultural interventions.
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This links contains strategies, toolkits and checklists that can help you with maximizing the nutritional impacts of the agricultural interventions.
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This resource can help you conduct a basic training course in conservation agriculture with trees. It provides practical tips on training activities and required materials and information needed for extension workers/trainers.
Agriculture in Emergencies
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This resource provides practical guidance on how to implement food security and livelihoods assessment in emergency, recovery and chronic crisis contexts.
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This resource provides standards and guidelines on appropriate and timely livestock-based livelihoods responses in emergencies.
Extension & Trainings
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This resource will help you understand processes and critical decisions that are needed to establish a new farmer field school programme. It details necessary preparatory steps, appropriate implementation period and quality assurance mechanisms.
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This manual provides explanation on how the Private Service Provider (PSP) model, which prepares agents to become independent service providers operating on a market-led basis (in a bid to ensure the long-term availability of SILC services), works.
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This resource will help people to effectively facilitate farmer field schools learning events. Although it can be used by any farmer field school facilitator, it was designed for those working in a post-conflict setting.
Monitoring & Evaluation
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This website can help you with selecting and using indicators for your agricultural, livelihoods and natural resources management interventions.
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This resource compiles the lessons learned from PIN's agricultural extension services projects in SNNPR, Ethiopia.
Other
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This manual can explain all the necessary sub-topics in organic agriculture.
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This resource provides useful information about gender in organic agriculture.
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This resource seeks to promote a wider adoption of innovative practices that can contribute to reaching the EU’s climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives in the food and farming sector.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your multi-sectoral nutrition programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to improving water, sanitation and hygiene as a part of its multi-sectoral efforts to address undernutrition.
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This toolkit outlines PIN’s multi-sectoral approach to addressing undernutrition and covers the following main topic: types, causes and impacts of undernutrition; integrating nutrition into existing programming; practical options for addressing undernutrition; and tips and tricks for program design, implementation, and M&E.
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This resource summarizes the key steps for implementing the Positive Deviance approach in nutrition programming and documents the learning from PIN's global programming.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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In February 2021, PIN conducted a SQUEAC assessment to assess the coverage of Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programmes in Kabambare Health Zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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This resource gives an overview of PIN's global approach to ensuring nutrition or food security outcomes from it's agriculture, value chains or other market systems development programmes.
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This resource summarizes the key steps for implementing the Positive Deviance approach in nutrition programming and documents the learning from PIN's global programming.
Introduction to Nutrition
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A textbook for key technical information nutrition practitioners should know.
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This toolkit outlines PIN’s multi-sectoral approach to addressing undernutrition and covers the following main topic: types, causes and impacts of undernutrition; integrating nutrition into existing programming; practical options for addressing undernutrition; and tips and tricks for program design, implementation, and M&E.
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A compendium of the World Health Organization (WHO) guidance on key practices and behaviours that effectively improve nutrition status of mothers, newborns, infants and young children.
Nutrition Security Assessments
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Five brief checklists focusing on the key stages of the most common nutrition-related surveys enable survey managers to quickly assess whether or not they have omitted an important step which may influence the quality of survey’s data. Each checklist also recommends the best sources of know-how for survey design, implementation and reporting.
