ALL THEMES
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Humanitarian Principles and Global Standards
- Quality Humanitarian Project Management & Implementation
- Emergency Preparedness
- Anticipatory 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
- Environment in Emergencies
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Market Assessments
- Labour Market Assessments and Employment
- Facilitation Approaches
- Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships
- Value Chain Development
- Monitoring and Evaluation of MSD
- Women's Economic Empowerment
- Markets in Emergency / Recovery Contexts
- Green Market Approaches
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
- PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools
- Child Protection and Well-Being
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
- Inclusion and gender
- Environment and Climate Change
- Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing
- Learning Outcomes
- Labour market assessment and employment
- One World in Schools (OWIS)
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Introduction to Nutrition
- Nutrition Security Assessments
- Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) (incl. mHealth and Positive Deviance)
- Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
- Nutrition and WASH
- Nutrition and Gender
- Nutrition Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Programming
- Nutrition in Emergencies
- Key Resources
- MEAL Planning at the Proposal Stage
- MEAL Planning during the Project Implementation
- Assessments
- Quantitative Data Collection
- Qualitative Data Collection
- Data Analysis
- Evaluation
- Data Use and Learning
- Feedback and Response Mechanisms
- Data protection & management
- MEAL in Education and Skills
- Other Sector-specific and Donor-specific MEAL
Emergency Response & Recovery
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
When can it be useful?
This document introduces basic concepts of gender mainstreaming, defines key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis and provides easy access to practical guidance and tools.
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource explains the nine commitments that ensure that humanitarian actors support people and communities affected by crisis and vulnerability in ways that respect their rights and dignity and promote their primary role in finding solutions to the crises they face. The versions in other languages: https://www.corehumanitarianstandard.org/languages
Examples of PIN's Interventions
When can it be useful?
The a comparative analysis of PIN interventions’ effects on food security in Northern Syria provides findings that should allow PIN staff better understand the effects of different interventions on the food security of beneficiaries, the effects of HH characteristics on the food security of beneficiaries and whether the effects of the interventions on food security vary by locations.
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This resource will provide you with an overview of PIN's early warning system (EWS) in Cambodia
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This resource is an example of an ECHO project aiming at strengthening at-risk communities' and local and provincial governments' leadership in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and early action. The project adopts a system strengthening approach aiming to build capacities of provincial and local governments to lead on developing a landslide disaster preparedness and early action framework.
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource explains the nine commitments that ensure that humanitarian actors support people and communities affected by crisis and vulnerability in ways that respect their rights and dignity and promote their primary role in finding solutions to the crises they face. The versions in other languages: https://www.corehumanitarianstandard.org/languages
When can it be useful?
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
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This resource provides lessons learned from the development of the Early Warning System in Cambodia by PIN.
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This resource will provide you with information about BHA's approach to risk reduction, preparedness, anticipatory action, which will help you design your BHA programs.
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This resource provides you with information about ECHO's strategy to preparedness, early warning, early/anticipatory action and early response, including crisis modifiers. It is key to consult it when designing new projects integrating such themes.
Anticipatory Action
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This resource is an example of an ECHO project aiming at strengthening at-risk communities' and local and provincial governments' leadership in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and early action. The project adopts a system strengthening approach aiming to build capacities of provincial and local governments to lead on developing a landslide disaster preparedness and early action framework.
Distributions
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource provide an introductory guide on how to design, implement and utilize the data of PDM for Shelter and NFI distributions, with a rich section of annexes where operative guides and tools are collected.
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.
When can it be useful?
The CiE Toolkit is organized in modules, each corresponding to a different phase of the project cycle: 1. preparedness, 2. assessment, 3. response analysis, 4. set-up and implementation, and 5. monitoring and evaluation. Each module is divided in steps and sub-steps. They are indicative and not necessarily sequential.
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.
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.
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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.
Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
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The a comparative analysis of PIN interventions’ effects on food security in Northern Syria provides findings that should allow PIN staff better understand the effects of different interventions on the food security of beneficiaries, the effects of HH characteristics on the food security of beneficiaries and whether the effects of the interventions on food security vary by locations.
When can it be useful?
This resource includes the Humanitarian charter, Protection principles and Common Humanitarian Standard. It also explains the minimum technical humanitarian standards used in four main programming areas, including WASH, food security and nutrition, shelter and NFIs, and health. The Handbook is one of the most widely known and recognized tools for the delivery of quality humanitarian response.
Nutrition in Emergencies
When can it be useful?
This link will take you to the KLC section dedicated to nutrition security.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource includes the Humanitarian charter, Protection principles and Common Humanitarian Standard. It also explains the minimum technical humanitarian standards used in four main programming areas, including WASH, food security and nutrition, shelter and NFIs, and health. The Handbook is one of the most widely known and recognized tools for the delivery of quality humanitarian response.
Shelter, NFIs & Settlements in Emergencies
Also available in: Arabic
When can it be useful?
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.
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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 PIN Education Brief explains the approach PIN takes to education in humanitarian and development settings.
Environment in Emergencies
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Guidance on DG ECHO's environmental principles, sector specific and cross-cutting overview.
When can it be useful?
Sphere unpacked guide on nature-based solutions for climate resilience in humanitarian
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This short guide offers hands-on guidance to practitioners looking to consider environmental issues in their humanitarian programmes by compiling references in the Sphere Handbook.
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
WHO guidance video and materials on when and how to use a mask.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This site offers a (frequently updated) overview of useful COVID-19 behaviour change communication guidance, tools and various materials (posters, leaflets, etc.)
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
WHO guidance on a range of infection prevention and control topics.
When can it be useful?
WHO technical brief on WASH in text context of COVID-19.
When can it be useful?
This document provides an example of a COVID-19 hygiene kit (Iraq WASH Cluster COVID-19 guidance).
Nutrition and Care
When can it be useful?
A compilation of resources published by the Global Nutrition Cluster (updated regularly).
When can it be useful?
This resource briefly explains the family MUAC approach and contains useful links to communities of practice.
Also available in: French
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
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.
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
This document introduces basic concepts of gender mainstreaming, defines key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis and provides easy access to practical guidance and tools.
When can it be useful?
This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19
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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
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This brief sets out key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19.
When can it be useful?
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?
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.
When can it be useful?
The CiE Toolkit is organized in modules, each corresponding to a different phase of the project cycle: 1. preparedness, 2. assessment, 3. response analysis, 4. set-up and implementation, and 5. monitoring and evaluation. Each module is divided in steps and sub-steps. They are indicative and not necessarily sequential.
When can it be useful?
The multi-agency “ Multipurpose Cash Assistance Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit” includes tools and XLS form/KoBo survey templates to facilitate the implementation of Multipurpose Cash (MPC) programs. The toolkit is aligned with the Grand Bargain Cash Workstream initiative to better standardize MPC outcome indicators.
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 State of the World’s Cash 2023 provides a ‘state of play’ in terms of the current use of CVA. It outlines progress made and challenges to be overcome. It explains strategic debates and provides clear recommendations to accelerate progress. Fundamentally, this report is about how to design and deliver more effective and people-centred aid.
When can it be useful?
The document presents operational guidance setting out DG ECHO’s expectations in the field of humanitarian cash assistance. It has been developed on the basis of programmatic best practice. Additionally, it underlines the importance of cash as a key tool for operationalising the humanitarian–development nexus.
Needs Assessment & Response Analysis
When can it be useful?
The toolkit provides guidance and tools to conduct a response analysis for CVA. It ranges from cash feasibility considerations to risk analysis, from delivery mechanism selection to decision making matrix.
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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).
When can it be useful?
This How-to Guide is Part 2 of the BNA Guidance & Toolbox, with Part 1 describing the background and concepts underpinning the BNA approach.
The How-to Guide describes the sequence of practical steps necessary to ensure a successful BNA during emergencies, from initiation of the BNA up to reporting and dissemination of the final findings.
Modalities
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
In this document, Mercy Corps examines the process of Cash-for-Work (CfW) implementation and provides a general methodology that can be adapted to the many different countries and contexts in which we work.
Transfer Mechanisms
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The E-transfer Implementation Guide was created for Mercy Corps team members considering – or already using – digital technology to deliver cash or vouchers to program participants. Chapters 1 and 2 provide an overview of the steps required to use digital payments. The Annexes contain customizable tools and templates.
When can it be useful?
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?
This Toolkit is designed to support these efforts and was created by the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Global Development Lab and NetHope’s Payment Innovations Project to assist relief and development organizations
in making the journey from using cash payments to e-payments wherever possible.
Sectors
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This Evaluation Report illustrates the potential benefit of integrating CVA in Gender-Based Violence response with the evaluation of a program from NorthWest Syria. It also describes trends and impact over a period of nine months on a number of indicators encompassing from economic resilience to personal well-being.
When can it be useful?
The purpose of this document is to provide practical guidance on market-based programming (MBP) in humanitarian WASH responses. This guidance is intended for:
- Humanitarian WASH practitioners
- Cash and markets practitioners
- Humanitarian business support teams supporting WASH programmes
- WASH Cluster/Sector coordinators
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This evidence and guidance note explains complementarities and strategies for the use of Cash and Voucher Assistance to achieve nutrition outcomes in emergencies. It identifies seven steps throughout the humanitarian programme cycle and four transversal issues that need to be considered when incorporating CVA in a nutrition response.
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource provides guidance on how to do a market assessment to develop a basic understanding of key markets within the first few days after a shock, it can be used by humanitarian practitioners with limited market expertise.
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?
The indicators in this document, developed by the Grand Bargain Cash Workstream, focus on the primary objectives of humanitarian Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPC), and the outcomes to which MPC can most strongly contribute in a given context.
When can it be useful?
The multi-agency “ Multipurpose Cash Assistance Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit” includes tools and XLS form/KoBo survey templates to facilitate the implementation of Multipurpose Cash (MPC) programs. The toolkit is aligned with the Grand Bargain Cash Workstream initiative to better standardize MPC outcome indicators.
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.
Cross-Cutting Topics
When can it be useful?
The Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B) Working Group on Linking Humanitarian Assistance and Social Protection proposes nine Common Principles to inform actions for more effective progress in linking HA-SP to provide better services to affected people.
When can it be useful?
Drawing from field learning and a close engagement with CVA and GBV actors in various contexts, the GBV AoR and UNFPA have developed a user-friendly GBV Risk Mitigation in CVA Toolkit to guide and support CVA and GBV practitioners in identifying and mitigating potential GBV risk in cash programming.
When can it be useful?
This good practice collection aims to benefit both humanitarian practitioners engaged in Cash Based Interventions (CBI) and the wider humanitarian sector by presenting insights and learning on how humanitarian CBI programmes can be made more inclusive, to ensure equal outcomes for disaster-affected people with disabilities and other at-risk groups.
Training Materials
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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.
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 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.
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.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource features practical project examples and lessons from PINs market systems development programming across different countries.
When can it be useful?
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?
The toolkit provides implementers, donors, and other practitioners engaged in MSD efforts with detailed guidance on and resources and tools for the current good practices for planning MSAs, conducting MSAs, and developing subsequent strategies.
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.
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.
When can it be useful?
This website provides guidance on the use of practical indicators for employment-related interventions.
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.
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 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.
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.
When can it be useful?
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 resource is a summary of a labour market assessment conducted by PIN in East and West Mosul in November 2018, it provides an overview of the main findings and recomendations from the assessment, and includes a link to the full report.
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.
Green Market Approaches
When can it be useful?
Overview of Green Growth Approaches for Private Sector Development
When can it be useful?
How to achieve environmental goals in agricultural MSD programmes
When can it be useful?
Case studies for greening MSD approach
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 PIN Education Brief explains the approach PIN takes to education in humanitarian and development settings.
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 resource provides structured guidance and a series of lesson plans to engage community members in activities aimed at improving social cohesion
When can it be useful?
Example on a green jobs initiative in the leather sector in Ethiopia
When can it be useful?
The document gives an overview of the key findings of this impact study in Northeast Syria, which focuses on the relevance, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the following four intervention categories :
1. TVET + Apprenticeship + Business Training + Small Business Grants
2. Small Business Grants
3. TVET + Business Trainings
4. TVET + Business Training
Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
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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.
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This document outlines PIN's child-centred approach to education in emergencies (EiE)
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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.
PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools
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This resource includes tools needed to set up a participatory approach to School Improvement Planning (SIP), engaging stakeholders in designing, budgeting for, implementing and monitoring activities towards school improvement. It includes: SIP Guidance Note, SIP checklist, SIP template and SIP reporting template.
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This resource includes a series of Quality Standards Checklists (QSCs) for education. The QSCs include sections on planning, implementation and monitoring, and can be used as a checklist to assure quality throughout the project cycle. Included are QSCs for: Child Friendly Spaces, Psychosocial Support, School Rehabilitation, Cross-cutting Themes, a General School Checklist and Project Development.
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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.
Child Protection and Well-Being
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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.
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This Guidance Note provides key definitions and strategies for improving and supporting the standardisation of psychosocial support (PSS) interventions.
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This Toolkit provides all the resources needed to initiate a Safe Healing Learning Space in an emergency including tools for social emotional learning (SEL), reading, maths and parental support.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
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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.
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A short learning brief good for positioning PIN with donors on its work on job creation via market driven skills development and provate sector engagement.
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The guideline on inclusive Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for people with disabilities (PwDs) aims to provide practical and evidence-based guidance for TVET institutions and stakeholders to promote and implement inclusive TVET policies and practices.
Inclusion and gender
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The EiE-GenKit is a series of tools and practical guidance that helps practitioners ensure education in emergencies (EiE) interventions and programmes are gender-responsive and inclusive
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The guideline on inclusive Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for people with disabilities (PwDs) aims to provide practical and evidence-based guidance for TVET institutions and stakeholders to promote and implement inclusive TVET policies and practices.
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This guide provides useful advice on how to promote gender-responsive programming in education.
Environment and Climate Change
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This resource is a research piece created by Plan International which addresses the intersection bewteen climate change and girls education.
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This briefing paper sets out how leaders can protect children’s learning from the impacts of the climate crisis, and the role that education can play in equipping the next generation with the tools they need to protect against its worst impacts.
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This resource looks at how climate change impacts education in emergencies while also highlighting ways in which EiE can be used to mitigate climate change impacts.
Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing
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This resource shares promising policies, practices, and research approaches for supporting teachers in crisis contexts including 42 case studies from around the world
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The Accelerated Education Introductory Teacher Training pack (AEITTP) is designed specifically for teachers working in accelerated education programme (AEP) classes and teaching learners generally aged 10-18 who are overage for their grade.
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This resource provides practical tips for organizations undertaking workshops focused on teacher wellbeing and contextualising the resources for their contexts and action planning on integration of teacher wellbeing.
Learning Outcomes
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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.
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This review presents a roadmap that guides users through four steps of planning and designing how distance learning can be monitored and evaluated. Featuring several case studies, including PIN's LNGB in Nepal.
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This resources can help during project planning to determine what types of activites to include if the aim of the project is to improve learning outcomes.
Labour market assessment and employment
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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.
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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.
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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.
One World in Schools (OWIS)
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This brochure presents the One World in Schools methodology, one of the PIN's flagships and an innovative approach to youth civic engagement. The booklet provides general information as well examples from recent projects.
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A brief overview of One World in Schools methodology, its application for Media Literacy, critical thinking skills and disinformation resilience in the context of Eastern Partnership and Balkan countries.
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 guidance can be used as a key resource to better understand what the CR pillar is about. It also includes practical tools in annex to be used for assessments and program design. Our aim is also to make sure that all PIN staff could get the basic theoretical background on climate change, including those who are less familiar with the climate resilience topic, vocabulary and approaches.
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The webpage synthetizes how PIN sees Nature-based Solutions and gives examples in different country programmes, providing links to additional 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
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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Example on a green jobs initiative in the leather sector in Ethiopia
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The webpage synthetizes how PIN sees Nature-based Solutions and gives examples in different country programmes, providing links to additional 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
Climate Change - General Resources
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This guidance can be used as a key resource to better understand what the CR pillar is about. It also includes practical tools in annex to be used for assessments and program design. Our aim is also to make sure that all PIN staff could get the basic theoretical background on climate change, including those who are less familiar with the climate resilience topic, vocabulary and approaches.
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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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Sphere unpacked guide on nature-based solutions for climate resilience in humanitarian
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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.
Climate Change Mitigation
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The webpage synthetizes how PIN sees Nature-based Solutions and gives examples in different country programmes, providing links to additional resources
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This resource present our experience in Energy solutions globally and key principles
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This case study provides information about GHG emissiona in Ethiopia´s water delivery services. It is useful for Energy and climate adaptation and mitigation discussion.
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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A study on how climate change can affect Baaja (Shirqat District), Mokhol (Baiji District), al-Muaibidi (Tikrit District)., Salah-al Din Governorate - Iraq, by adopting a gender and social inclusion lens and a focus on climate-induced migration, and what the solutions could be.
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A study on how climate change can affect Hatra District, Ninewa Governorate - Iraq, by adopting a gender and social inclusion lens and a focus on climate-induced migration, and how the solutions could be
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 website can help you with selecting and using indicators for your agricultural, livelihoods and natural resources management interventions.
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This resource leads you through the main steps in planning, design and implementation of agricultural trainings, helping you to deliver them in the most effective way.
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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 standards and guidelines on appropriate and timely livestock-based livelihoods responses in emergencies.
Extension & Trainings
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This resource leads you through the main steps in planning, design and implementation of agricultural trainings, helping you to deliver them in the most effective way.
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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.
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.
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What is the importance of the soil monitoring in agriculture program? The leaflet provides a basic comprehensive quidance to everyone who's designing agriculture projects or program and for the program managers, to include the Soil Monitoring to follow-up internal quality indicators as well as developing the capacities of PIN and partners for long-term agriculture and NRM monitoring purposes.
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 resource can help you in understanding PIN's RDD Strategy for 2022-2026 including PIN's multi-sectoral nutrition approach.
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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 website provides guidance on useful indicators to monitor and measure the impact of nutrition projects.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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In October 2022, PIN together with the Ministry of Health (MoH) conducted a SQUEAC assessment to assess the coverage of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) in Nalolo District’s East and West Banks.
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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.
Introduction to Nutrition
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This course has been designed to explore the complicated problem of malnutrition in all its forms, highlighting its multi-sectoral causes, exploring the available evidence and identifying potential solutions.
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This course describes the actions UNICEF Nutrition takes to attempt to alleviate malnutrition, explains why efforts and collaborations with multiple sectors are required to address the underlying causes of malnutrition, and presents some case studies.
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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.
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.
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Provides a repository of online nutrition-related Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses
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A practical toolkit for assessing, designing and monitoring acute malnutrition treatment programmes.
Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) (incl. mHealth and Positive Deviance)
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The Community IYCF Counselling Package includes the Facilitator Guide for use in training community workers (CWs); the Participant Materials, consisting of “handouts” and monitoring tools; a set of 24 IYCF Counselling Cards and companion Key Messages Booklet; Take-home Brochures; Planning Guide, and Adaptation Guide.
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This document presents a set of new and updated indicators to assess infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at household level.
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Key guidance for use in food security and nutrition interventions in emergency contexts, to ensure programmes are providing the necessary requirements for adequate infant and young child feeding.
Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
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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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A summary of a project aimed at improving nutrition security and consumption of vitamin A-rich Orange-Flesh Sweet Potato through nutrition-sensitive value chain development. Implemented in Ethiopia, project partners are the International Potato Centre (CIP), PIN, and Emory University.
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A practical checklist for designing, monitoring and evaluating Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture and Livelihoods programmes.
Nutrition and WASH
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A practical guidebook on: increasing nutritional impact through integration of WASH and Nutrition programmes
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This paper reviews the existing evidence on the causes of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction in infants and considerations for nutrition and WASH interventions to be able to effectively reduce the prevalence of stunting worldwide.
Nutrition and Gender
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The Transformative Household Methodology (THM) is a tool that aims at creating awareness of intra-household gender relations between women, men, girls, and boys. The THM identifies the different roles and responsibilities of household members, their access and control over resources, and their related benefits. The purpose of THM training is to create awareness of the participating household on ge
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An textbook on designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating gender-sensitive behaviour change within Nutrition and Food Security programmes.
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This guide is for nutrition programme planners and implementers who aim to integrate gender into multi-sectoral nutrition activities. It shares resources and examples to effectively integrate gender at each phase of a nutrition programme.
Nutrition Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Programming
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A suite of practical tools to harmonise design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition SBC programmes in food and health systems.
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Le guide du programme aborde la manière d’identifier les normes, d’inclure des éléments de changement de normes dans les stratégies et activités de nutrition, qu’elles soient spécifiques ou sensibles à la nutrition, et de suivre et mesurer le changement normatif.
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This guide provides guidance on how to evaluate an activity that uses SBC to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes.
Nutrition in Emergencies
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This new 2023 WHO guideline includes recommendations and good practice statements informed by the best available evidence for
the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema.
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Key guidance for use in food security and nutrition interventions in emergency contexts, to ensure programmes are providing the necessary requirements for adequate infant and young child feeding.
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A practical toolkit for assessing, designing and monitoring acute malnutrition treatment programmes.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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WASH profile - Capacity statement of PIN water sector for partners, donors etc.
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This key document lists the WASH standards that are applied by PIN in the course of its WASH interventions – an essential resource for all PIN staff working on WASH.
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This checklist helps you ensure a higher quality and impact of the water trucking emergency support. It enables you to quickly check whether you have omitted any important steps in the design, budgeting, implementation and M&E of the water trucking activities.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This case study provides information about GHG emissiona in Ethiopia´s water delivery services. It is useful for Energy and climate adaptation and mitigation discussion.
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This video illustrates the results of PIN’s WASH interventions in the rural areas of Ethiopia.
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This study shows the results of comparing the effectiveness of two types of intervention to improve sanitation and hygiene behaviours: hygiene promotion and hygiene promotion in combination with sanitation marketing.
Water Supply
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This case study provides information about GHG emissiona in Ethiopia´s water delivery services. It is useful for Energy and climate adaptation and mitigation discussion.
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This key document lists the WASH standards that are applied by PIN in the course of its WASH interventions – an essential resource for all PIN staff working on WASH.
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This publication provides a comprehensive orientation of the WASH sector, including the key challenges addressed, good practices, and useful lessons learned.
Excreta Disposal
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This key document lists the WASH standards that are applied by PIN in the course of its WASH interventions – an essential resource for all PIN staff working on WASH.
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This technical publication provides an overview of various sanitation systems and technologies and describes their main advantages and disadvantages.
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This publication provides a comprehensive orientation of the WASH sector, including the key challenges addressed, good practices, and useful lessons learned.
Hygiene & Sanitation Promotion
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This publication helps you gain a useful overview of the various hygiene and sanitation ‘software’ approaches that have been deployed over the last 40 years by NGOs, development agencies, national and local governments in all types of settings – urban, informal-urban and rural.
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SDG indicators proposed by WASH JMP (Joined Monitoring Program)...it is "service ladder" system to track progress or impact.
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This practical manual can help you with designing methodologies for the effective promotion of hygiene practices.
Management & Financing
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This case study provides information about GHG emissiona in Ethiopia´s water delivery services. It is useful for Energy and climate adaptation and mitigation discussion.
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This brief and practical guide helps you assess the financial viability of a rural water supply system.
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This publication provides a comprehensive orientation of the WASH sector, including the key challenges addressed, good practices, and useful lessons learned.
WASH in Emergencies
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of many emergency WASH (and other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
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This checklist helps you ensure a higher quality and impact of the water trucking emergency support. It enables you to quickly check whether you have omitted any important steps in the design, budgeting, implementation and M&E of the water trucking activities.
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This technical publication provides a detailed overview of various sanitation systems and technologies used in emergency contexts.
DRR and Resilience
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to resilience and disaster risk reduction (DRR). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This magazine offers inspiration on ways to build resilience, based on case studies from various People in Need programmes across three continents.
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of many disaster risk reduction (and other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
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This introductory guide can help you understand how the activities you implement can better contribute to strengthening resilience.
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of many disaster risk reduction (and other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
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This resource offers a series of 14 guidance notes that can help you with mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in your development programming in hazard-prone countries.
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This toolkit can help you to assess the strengths and shortcomings of existing urban disaster management programmes and take action at every stage of disaster management, with particular relevance to Asia.
Resilience
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This introductory guide can help you understand how the activities you implement can better contribute to strengthening resilience.
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This magazine offers inspiration on ways to build resilience, based on case studies from various People in Need programmes across three continents.
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This handbook explains how to build resilience in various programming areas, based on practical examples and a selection of key tools and resources.
Protection
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to social protection and inclusion. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This document introduces basic concepts of gender mainstreaming, defines key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis and provides easy access to practical guidance and tools.
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of social inclusion and protection indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
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Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action. This resource offers a strong global commitment to addressing child labour in humanitarian action. The toolkit complements the 2019 edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and seeks to form an evidence base for child labour programming in humanitarian settings.
Good Governance
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your good governance programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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A participatory multi-stakeholder approach to effective planning, implementation and evaluation of social policies and services ensuring that the most vulnerable people are not left behind.
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Drafting a logframe? IndiKit's guidance on the use of Good Governance indicators can help you when developing CSO development, civic engagement and local governance programmes.
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This resource explains the nine commitments that ensure that humanitarian actors support people and communities affected by crisis and vulnerability in ways that respect their rights and dignity and promote their primary role in finding solutions to the crises they face. The versions in other languages: https://www.corehumanitarianstandard.org/languages
Youth Civic Engagement
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This brochure presents the One World in Schools methodology, one of the PIN's flagships and an innovative approach to youth civic engagement. The booklet provides general information as well examples from recent projects.
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A brief overview of One World in Schools methodology, its application for Media Literacy, critical thinking skills and disinformation resilience in the context of Eastern Partnership and Balkan countries.
CSO/Local Authority Capacity Development
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This document provides case studies and lessons learned to support local governance programmes.
Community Engagement in Development Programs
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A participatory multi-stakeholder approach to effective planning, implementation and evaluation of social policies and services ensuring that the most vulnerable people are not left behind.
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This guide provides overall background principles for governance programming.
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This is a resource to support all country programs better engage with communities/beneficiaries in both development and emergency programmes.
Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
Key Resources
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This resources provides guidance on how to select food security indicIndiKit website offers guidance on the use of many food security (and other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about. ators and how to measure them while designing an intervention.
External Resources & Training
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Briefly explains the concepts of food secuirty, nutrition, malnutrition, and livelihoods
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This handbook overviews key food security related indicators.
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This course introduces IPC as an analytical approach for decision-makers. It explains the concepts on which the IPC is based, and provides all the necessary information to appreciate and critically use IPC products.
Resources on Markets in Emergencies
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Study is a deep dive in the dynamics of the food security and resilience of multiple cities in Afghanistan.
It shows alarmingly high levels of poverty and food insecurity and low levels of resilience in the main Afghan cities in the pre-election period in year 2014
Resources on Agriculture & Livestock in Emergency
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to agriculture and resources management.
Shelter and Infrastructure
Key Resources
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of shelter and NFI indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
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.
Cash in Shelter
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This resource provides a list of eight case studies from CRS aimed to gain a better understanding of when cash for shelter outcomes works, why it works, and what factors contribute to its success or failure. In six countries project participants were able to meet Sphere and other building standards. In one country, CRS decided against using cash. In another country, CRS used a mixed modality.
Rental Assistance
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This resource explains in detail how to design, manage and monitor rental assistance programs.
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This resource provides a general overview to HLP and rental issues and a country by country profile of HLP situation, shelter response, cross cutting issues and lessons learned.
Settlement Approach
Also available in: French
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This resource collects and explains the theoretical principles and the methodology of the settlement/area based approach which is now increasingly promoted by humanitarian actors and donors.
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This resource is a collection of case studies in different geographical areas in which the settlement/area based approach has been implemented
DRR and Environmental Adaptation in Shelter
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The resource can help with a wide selection of shelter tipologies from the UNHCR catalogue; with drawings, BoQs and a focus on environmental impact and carbon footprint.
Cross Cutting Themes
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This resource provides basic information about site planning and gender-based violence risks, it provides practical guidance for measures which can be taken to reduce risks to affected populations in and around camps and sites. This booklet is targeted at field practitioners.
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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.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality of your monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) processes. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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IndiKit is online guide on the use of hundreds of relief and development indicators across different sectors, including specific survey questions and practical tips based on from field experience.
MEAL Planning at the Proposal Stage
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IndiKit is online guide on the use of hundreds of relief and development indicators across different sectors, including specific survey questions and practical tips based on from field experience.
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An alternative to the logframe when it comes to mapping changes intended to be brought about by a project; in some cases, it can be more suitable to M&E planning than the logframe.
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The M&E Universe is a free, online resource developed by INTRAC to support development practitioners involved in monitoring and evaluation (M&E). It consists of a series of short papers (2-6 pages) on different subjects related to M&E.
MEAL Planning during the Project Implementation
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A step-by-step guide to calculating the costs for reaching each output and outcome of your project.
Assessments
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This resource explains why it is important to use Sphere standards throughout the humanitarian programme cycle, and how to do so. The document starts with a section on how to use humanitarian standards in your context. This is followed by standalone but complementary chapters for Assessment, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.
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The basic needs assessment questionnaire is taken from CaLP Guidance for Basis Needs Analysis.
Quantitative Data Collection
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This brief guide will help you determine the appropriate sample for your survey.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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A brief overview of mobile data collection (tools, advantages and disadvantages).
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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A checklist of all the steps which should be taken during the preparation and implementation of a survey.
Qualitative Data Collection
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This quality standard checklist (QSC) can be used when planning focus group discussions (FGDs) as well as for monitoring the performance of FGD facilitators (whether PIN staff or external).
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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Guidance and practical tips for conducting individual interviews during surveys, needs assessments, evaluations etc.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This quality standard checklist (QSC) can be used when planning individual interviews, as well as for monitoring the performance of interviewers (whether PIN staff or external).
Data Analysis
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This links to the UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education.
Top of Form, which lists many useful resources for learning to use STATA (divided by topic).
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This links to an article which briefly introduces 3 software programmes which can be used to design randomized evaluations and analyse the data from them.
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This is a step-by-step guide to cleaning and analysing data in Excel. It can be used for training, as well as while analysing survey data.
Evaluation
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This paper outlines the different ways in which RTE has been defined and is understood to work. It analyses how RTE is similar to and different from other approaches to supporting evidence-informed action. It discusses when it is appropriate to use RTE and what is needed to make it work well.
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This paper is intended to support development and humanitarian managers, evaluation functions and evaluators as they plan and implement Real-Time Evaluations and Real-Time Learning exercises of their respective organisation’s COVID-19 response, and of future humanitarian action.
Also available in: Arabic, Spanish
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Very detailed guidance on designing and conducting evaluations of development interventions.
Data Use and Learning
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An interesting and honest review of mistakes made and lessons learned during “Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices” surveys; it is relevant to surveys in general, not just KAP.
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This is an interactive platform which maps evidence gaps and highlights areas where there are few or no impact evaluations or systematic reviews. It is helpful to check before planning such evaluations, to avoid duplication of already existing work and to make optimal use of resources.
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This paper is intended to support development and humanitarian managers, evaluation functions and evaluators as they plan and implement Real-Time Evaluations and Real-Time Learning exercises of their respective organisation’s COVID-19 response, and of future humanitarian action.
Feedback and Response Mechanisms
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A step-by-step guide to designing and implementing beneficiary feedback mechanisms.
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This resource can be used while designing and running accountable feedback mechanisms that can surface safeguarding concerns.
MEAL in Education and Skills
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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).
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This review presents a roadmap that guides users through four steps of planning and designing how distance learning can be monitored and evaluated. Featuring several case studies, including PIN's LNGB in Nepal.
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This toolkit provides practical participatory methods for engagement of children and youth in all steps of the program cycle. It includes tools for a) identification of risks/ problems/ issues and resources, b) prioritization of these risks/ problems/ issues c) analysis uncovering the root-causes of risks/ problems/ issues and d) planning for solutions.
Other Sector-specific and Donor-specific MEAL
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This is a checklist of steps to be taken when planning and conducting a survey aimed at assessing the prevalence of child malnutrition and mortality.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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This checklist will help you monitor the quality of measurements for anthropometric surveys.
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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.
Communication & Advocacy
This site offers the most useful resources that can help you increase the quality of your advocacy and communication efforts. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This four-page document introduces PIN's Communication & Advocacy Department (CAD), describes its role within PIN and explains how it supports the work done by PIN's country offices.
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This link redirects you to the PIN's webpage on the Publication and Communication subsection. There you can find even more resources related to the PIN's work.
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This link opens the PIN's webpage on the PIN's Annual Reports section.
INSPIRED Magazines
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This issue of INSPIRED offers you stories coming from Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, where we provide humanitarian, development or human rights
assistance. We hope that through a thoughtful read, you can decide in what forms and under what circumstances a HRBA can be beneficial for your programmes.
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This magazine provides useful information on impact investment from the perspective of NGO actors.
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This journal provides both information on climate funds as well as examples of climate-related projects implemented by PIN
PIN Social Media
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Explore what is PIN tweeting to the world!
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This link will open PIN's YouTube channel.
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Explore what's new in PIN's world on its English Facebook!
How To Do Advocacy
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This guide aims to support the development and implementation of effective influencing, advocacy and campaigning strategies to lead to changes in policies, practices, attitudes, behaviours and social norms.
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This guide provides a comprehensive understanding of how to influence European Union (EU) international development policies. Moreover, section 2 of this document explains the key steps for planning an EU advocacy campaign.
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This resource offers a comprehensive set of advocacy strategies and tools for advocates, presented on the case of CSOs in Myanmar.
PIN Global Strategies
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This is the 2022-2026 strategy of the Relief and Development Department (RDD), the department of People in Need (PIN) responsible for humanitarian and development programmes across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East
Innovations
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This resource outlines PIN's innovations strategy from 2022-2024
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This resource describes lessons learned from innovative programs of People in Need and provides ideas for future programming.
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This resource provides an overview of innovations used in the humanitarian and development sector with extra focus on PIN's successful stories.
Innovations - Lessons Learned
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This resource explains the lessons learned from the pilot in Mongu, West Zambia focusing on biochar production and application to soil in agriculture
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This resources presents lessons learned from an innovative pilot focused on a digital educational game for pupils in Iraq with the theme of sustainable water use.
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This article describes the biochar products and its potential for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This article provides PIN's lessons learned from scaling up electronic vouchers using "smart cards" in Syria.
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This resource provides lessons learned from the development of the Early Warning System in Cambodia by PIN.
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This article provides an overview of the lessons learned from addressing indebtedness of people in Czech Republic and Georgia.
Social and Behaviour Change
This site offers the most useful resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your social and behaviour change activities. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
Also available in: French
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This practical toolkit will help you understand what social and behaviour change (SBC) is about, how can you identify and tackle the key barriers to adopting various behaviours (including guidance on conducting Barrier Analysis), what common mistakes you should avoid and much more!
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This website offers practical tools helping relief and development practitioners understand and tackle the barriers that prevent people from following the desired behaviours.
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This brief and practical document present the key SBC lessons learnt from GIZ's food and nutrition security programming. It allows you to avoid not-so-good practices and take advantage of what has worked.
Barrier Analysis (BA)
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This site provides the most useful and up-to-date guidance on conducing Barrier Analysis, including a short description of its main steps (included in the Behaviour Change Toolkit), training of trainers module, checklists, data analysis tool, and more.
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This brief document provides step-by-step guidance on how to code the Barrier Analysis data and how to enter it in the Tabulation Sheet.
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At this site you can find the templates of Barrier Analysis questionnaires in various languages. Contact us please if you can help with translating the template to a currently unavailable language.
Other Methods for Understanding People's Behaviours
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This site brings you the most useful resources on preparing and conducting key informant interviews.
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This publication provides guidance on the use of customer journey mapping - a formative research technique helping us understand people's experience with using (or trying to use) certain service, taking into account not only what happens to them, but also their responses to their experiences.
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This site brings you the most useful resources on preparing and conducting observations.
Tools for Designing Behaviour Change Strategies
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This site presents the most useful and up-to-date guidance on using the DBC framework.
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Explore frequently asked questions about using the DBC Framework.
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The second chapter of this toolkit provides lots of examples and practical guidance on designing behaviour change activities.
Guidance on Designing Behaviour Change Activities
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The second chapter of this toolkit provides lots of examples and practical guidance on designing behaviour change activities.
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This site provides useful guidance on using peer education approach in your behaviour change programming.
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This site provides resources that help you to understand how to use the Positive Deviance approach in your programming, especially related to health and nutrition.
Behaviour Change in Emergencies
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This site provides useful guidance on behaviour change programming in emergencies.
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This report was prepared as part of the Yemen Emergency Multisectoral and Lifesaving Interventions (YEMLI) project that is implemented by ADRA Yemen. The report aims to share the key best practices and lessons learned from ADRA's three years of implementing a multisectoral SBC approach to protecting people’s health and nutritional status.
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This Barrier Analysis (BA) assessment was conducted in Northern and Southern Syria to examine the determinants of three key infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and maternal nutrition behaviors that have been promoted among internally displaced people (IDP) in camp and urban settings in the Aleppo, Idlib and Dar’a Governorates.
Mainstreaming Topics
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This publication of the Global Protection Cluster provides practical tips on mainstreaming protection elements and considerations into programmes and throughout the programme cycle.
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The guide will assist in the detection, identification, referral, protection, and assistance of trafficked persons. It provides direction on how to prevent trafficking, who to work with in doing so, and what support victims require.
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This resource provides practical tips to integrate gender perspectives into conflict analysis processes; build understandings of the relationships between gender and conflict, particularly how gender norms influence conflict dynamics, and vice versa; provide the foundation for designing gender-sensitive peacebuilding programmes that are based on thorough gender analysis of conflict
Protection Mainstreaming
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This technical guidance provides partners with the key information required when selecting the Protection Mainstreaming Key Outcome Indicator (PM KOI); and a guide of how to use the verification survey tool/questionnaire developed by DG ECHO
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The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist humanitarian actors and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence (GBV) across all sectors of humanitarian response.
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This publication of the Global Protection Cluster provides practical tips on mainstreaming protection elements and considerations into programmes and throughout the programme cycle.
Gender and Age Mainstreaming
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This document introduces basic concepts of gender mainstreaming, defines key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis and provides easy access to practical guidance and tools.
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This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19
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This handbook sets out the rationale for integrating gender equality into humanitarian action and provides practical guidance for doing so across sectors.
Gender-Based Violence Mainstreaming
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The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist humanitarian actors and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence (GBV) across all sectors of humanitarian response.
Also available in: French, Spanish, Arabic
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This resource presents 16 Minimum Standards for GBV prevention and response programming in emergencies. As a whole, the 16 Minimum Standards define what agencies working on specialized GBV programming need to achieve to prevent and respond to GBV, and deliver multisectoral services.
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This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19
Environmental Sustainability
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Partnerships Management
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The partnership strategy describes People in Need’s (PIN’s) approach and commitments to transformational partnerships, and the changes we want to see by the end of the strategy period. This strategic document serves to frame and guide our partnerships work for the 2022-2026 period.
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The partnership strategy describes People in Need’s (PIN’s) approach and commitments to transformational partnerships, and the changes we want to see by the end of the strategy period. This strategic document serves to frame and guide our partnerships work for the 2022-2026 period.
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The recording provides basic understanding of Capacity Sharing and Strengthening approaches for local partner CSOs. This was part of series of webinars.