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
- 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 AND RECOVERY (ERR)
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 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 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 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.
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource will provide you with an overview of PIN's early warning system (EWS) in Cambodia
Humanitarian Principles and Global Standards
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 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.
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
When can it be useful?
This resource will provide you with guidance on how to plan and set up organizational preparedness at PIN country program level, and define your emergency preparedness plan, which is a part of the Country Program Strategy.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource will provide you with an overview of PIN's early warning system (EWS) in Cambodia
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
When can it be useful?
This is the detailed guide on accessing the Start Fund.
Cash and Vouchers Assistance in Emergencies
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to Market and Private Sector related section.
Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
When can it be useful?
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.
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
When can it be useful?
This resource provides a comprehensive guide on how to design disability-inclusive emergency response and shelter program.
When can it be useful?
This resource can help you to introduce HLP to field staff.
Education in Emergencies
When can it be useful?
Guide 1 provides a short introduction into what EiE is, why is it important and what guides its implementation. Together with Guide 2, it provides 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?
Guide 2 provides information about planning, implementing and monitoring an EiE response in accordance with PIN’s approach to EiE. Together with Guide 1, it 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
When can it be useful?
Guidance on DG ECHO's environmental principles, sector specific and cross-cutting overview.
When can it be useful?
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.
EiE-CP-PSS
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?
Guide 1 provides a short introduction into what EiE is, why is it important and what guides its implementation. Together with Guide 2, it provides 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?
Guide 2 provides information about planning, implementing and monitoring an EiE response in accordance with PIN’s approach to EiE. Together with Guide 1, it 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.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
When can it be useful?
This document will be helpful to understand effective strategies for improving educational outcomes and life skills among marginalized girls in Nepal, focusing on transition path and in particular to TVET
Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
When can it be useful?
Guide 1 provides a short introduction into what EiE is, why is it important and what guides its implementation. Together with Guide 2, it provides 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?
Guide 2 provides information about planning, implementing and monitoring an EiE response in accordance with PIN’s approach to EiE. Together with Guide 1, it 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 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
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This package of tools provides guidance on what ASER is and how to conduct literacy and numeracy assessments using the ASER tools. It also includes sample ASER tools that can be adapted to a specific context as well as a reporting template.
When can it be useful?
This package of tools is based on the Strengths and Difficulties (SDQ) guidance and tools from "Youth in Mind" and can be used for the collection of data about children's psychological attributes. The package includes a briefing presentation and Guidance Note on conducting SDQ questionnaires as well as SDQ data collection tools.
Safe And Inclusive Learning Environment
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This package of tools can be used for assessing and selecting schools to support based on needs. It includes templates for assessing and prioritising needs as well as a sample selection criteria and sample Standard Operating Procedure. Tools should be adapted to a specific context.
When can it be useful?
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.
Quality Teaching and Learning
Learning Outcomes
When can it be useful?
This package of tools provides guidance on what ASER is and how to conduct literacy and numeracy assessments using the ASER tools. It also includes sample ASER tools that can be adapted to a specific context as well as a reporting template.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing
When can it be useful?
This checklist will help you to make sure that every stage of the training process has been completed properly – from inclusion in the proposal, to budgeting, implementation and M&E.
When can it be useful?
This guide will help you to become a better facilitator in delivering training and workshop. You will understand different learning styles, you will improve participatory facilitation skills, you will learn how to structure a training/workshop with adequate facilitation techniques.
When can it be useful?
This Guidance Note gives advice on how to support teacher wellbeing in the five INEE domains. It explains how to:
• promote mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for teachers;
• create more enabling work environments for teachers; and
• enhance teacher voice, agency, and leadership in crises.
It also provides resources and tools and examples of these standards in practice.
Environment and Climate Change Education
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This resource is a research piece created by Plan International which addresses the intersection bewteen climate change and girls education.
When can it be useful?
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.
Child Protection and Well-Being
When can it be useful?
This resource provides globally recognised minimum standards for Child Protection as well as key actions, measurements (including indicators and targets), and guidance notes on how to use these standards in practice
When can it be useful?
This 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.
When can it be useful?
This Guidance Note provides key definitions and strategies for improving and supporting the standardisation of psychosocial support (PSS) interventions.
Inclusion and gender
When can it be useful?
The Inclusive Distance Education Toolkit compiles resources on: inclusive education, education in emergencies, disability inclusive education, and distance education across the humanitarian-development nexus.
When can it be useful?
This report defines and clarifies key concepts and terminology for disability-inclusive education in emergencies (EiE) and provides seven guiding principles. It is meant to be used as a companion piece to the INEE Minimum Standards and to support stakeholders’ efforts to be more intentional in their design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of disability-inclusive EiE interventions.
When can it be useful?
This Module on Child Functioning is an international tool for assessment of functional difficulties in different domains incl. hearing, vision, communication/comprehension, learning, mobility and emotions.
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
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?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
DRM-EWS-AA
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
When can it be useful?
This introductory guide can help you understand how the activities you implement can better contribute to strengthening resilience.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This magazine offers inspiration on ways to build resilience, based on case studies from various People in Need programmes across three continents.
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
This introductory guide can help you understand how the activities you implement can better contribute to strengthening resilience.
When can it be useful?
This magazine offers inspiration on ways to build resilience, based on case studies from various People in Need programmes across three continents.
When can it be useful?
This handbook explains how to build resilience in various programming areas, based on practical examples and a selection of key tools and resources.
Cash and Vouchers
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
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
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
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.
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
When can it be useful?
When can it be useful?
This session will introduce you to the fundamentals of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and will help you to begin understanding it. No knowledge of CVA is required to do this course.
LLA and Partnerships
Key Resources
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
The recording provides basic understanding of Capacity Sharing and Strengthening approaches for local partner CSOs. This was part of series of webinars.
Nutrition and Food Security
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
When can it be useful?
This resource can help you in understanding PIN's RDD Strategy for 2022-2026 including PIN's multi-sectoral nutrition approach.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This website provides guidance on useful indicators to monitor and measure the impact of nutrition projects.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
Provides a repository of online nutrition-related Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses
When can it be useful?
A practical toolkit for assessing, designing and monitoring acute malnutrition treatment programmes.
Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) (incl. mHealth and Positive Deviance)
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
This document presents a set of new and updated indicators to assess infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at household level.
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
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.
When can it be useful?
A practical checklist for designing, monitoring and evaluating Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture and Livelihoods programmes.
Nutrition and WASH
When can it be useful?
A practical guidebook on: increasing nutritional impact through integration of WASH and Nutrition programmes
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
An textbook on designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating gender-sensitive behaviour change within Nutrition and Food Security programmes.
When can it be useful?
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
When can it be useful?
A suite of practical tools to harmonise design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition SBC programmes in food and health systems.
When can it be useful?
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.
Adaptation Governance and Environmental Management
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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The GESI CVRA toolkit helps assess climate vulnerabilities and resource access with a strong GESI perspective. It includes several assessment tools (KII, FGD and report templates) to conduct the assessment. It facilitates the development of inclusive, community-driven solutions that enhance climate resilience while addressing both immediate and long-term risks
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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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This resource presents a framework for promoting Climate Action in contexts affected by conflict, fragility and violence. It includes two core elements: i) outlining several principles for FCV-sensitivity that can be applied in all settings, and ii) providing guidance on tailoring climate action to the unique challenges, needs, and capacities of different fragile and conflict-affected environments
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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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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Leaflet of the project "Enhancing Livelihood Opportunities through Ecosystem Protection" in Zambia
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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.
When can it be useful?
This resource presents a framework for promoting Climate Action in contexts affected by conflict, fragility and violence. It includes two core elements: i) outlining several principles for FCV-sensitivity that can be applied in all settings, and ii) providing guidance on tailoring climate action to the unique challenges, needs, and capacities of different fragile and conflict-affected environments
When can it be useful?
The webpage synthetizes how PIN sees Nature-based Solutions and gives examples in different country programmes, providing links to additional resources
Assessing climate risk and vulnerability
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The GESI CVRA toolkit helps assess climate vulnerabilities and resource access with a strong GESI perspective. It includes several assessment tools (KII, FGD and report templates) to conduct the assessment. It facilitates the development of inclusive, community-driven solutions that enhance climate resilience while addressing both immediate and long-term risks
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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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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
Climate Change Adaptation
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This resource can help in understanding what are the climate vulnerabilities and how to increase climate resilience in the Western Province - Zambia, with a focus on climate-resilient agriculture and agri-businesses
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This resource provides lessons learned from the application of the Tepmachcha sensor units in Cambodia. These are used for automatic detection of rising water levels as a part of a flood early warning system.
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Main findings of the Climate reports for five location in the Northern Iraq, highlighting climate trends and crops' performance
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 resource can help you identify existing sources of funds for climate change programmes and projects
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This resource provides an analysis of international climate finance in low and mid-income countries and the role that Official Development Assistance (ODA)
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
Also available in: Bosnian
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This Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) study was conducted in BiH and identifies how climate change, air pollution, and energy poverty affect different population groups. It also examines the barriers, opportunities, and pathways for embedding gender equality and social inclusion into climate, energy, and environmental policies and practices.
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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.
When can it be useful?
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
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.
When can it be useful?
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 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.
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.
