Social Inclusion and Protection

When can it be useful?
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.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

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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.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

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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.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

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This toolkit is designed to provide guidance and tools to support staff in integrating GESI perspectives in all stages of project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DME). The goal is to enhance the effectiveness, impact and sustainability of World Vision’s work from a GESI perspective. The toolkit includes practical guidance.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

Also available in: Arabic, French, Spanish

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The guidelines set out essential actions that humanitarian actors must take in order to effectively identify and respond to the needs and rights of persons with disabilities who are most at risk of being left behind in humanitarian settings.

Language: English, French, Arabic, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

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This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This Toolkit provides practical tips and tools to integrate Gender Equality and Social Inclusion considerations and elements (GESI Mainstreaming) in your interventions.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers, HR Officers

When can it be useful?
The toolkit can help you design activities and programs and can be a useful resource for planning processes, such as a strategic plans.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This article highlights the importance of reliable data and documentation on people’s housing properties and provides several examples of relevant interventions.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Innovations

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This report offers an overview of how the Self-Help Group (SHG) approach has been used by PIN in the Afghan urban context, with a focus on its three main components — social development, economic development and institutional stability.

Language: English

Region: Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

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This manual provides practical guidance on supporting self-help groups and includes various examples.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Innovations

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

Also available in: French, Spanish

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These Sectoral Tip Sheets offer questions and examples of how key gender equality measures contribute to more relevant and responsive projects and programs. Use the Tip Sheets alongside the Gender with Age Marker questionnaire at http://iascgenderwithagemarker.com

Language: English, French, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

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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.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

Also available in: French, Spanish, Arabic

When can it be useful?
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.

Language: English, French, Arabic, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
This toolkit is designed to provide guidance and tools to support staff in integrating GESI perspectives in all stages of project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DME). The goal is to enhance the effectiveness, impact and sustainability of World Vision’s work from a GESI perspective. The toolkit includes practical guidance.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
This guide provides useful advice on how to promote gender-responsive programming in education.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
This report offers an overview of how the Self-Help Group (SHG) approach has been used by PIN in the Afghan urban context, with a focus on its three main components — social development, economic development and institutional stability.

Language: English

Region: Asia, Middle East

Resource type: Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This manual provides practical guidance on supporting self-help groups and includes various examples.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Innovations

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This toolkit explains how to score the resilience of women and men at the local level, and identify any differences that exist between the two sexes in terms of resilience to disaster risks.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
This document provides practical tools and guidance on supporting women’s empowerment in market systems development projects.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
Are you in charge of rural development/nutrition programmes but are not sure how to mainstream gender considerations and promote equality? Then this guide is for you.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
The social norms guidance document is a set of exercises that helps practitioners to identify and discuss the social norms, perceptions and expectations that shape, constrain or promote young women’s economic empowerment in economic development initiatives within their context; and to develop initial ideas for change strategies.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource provides the rationale and examples to understand the Gender-Climate-Security triple nexus at different levels

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Communication Materials

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
Handbook to inform community-based adaptation, resilience and gender equality

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
Guide dedicated to prevention of violence against women as it relates to women’s economic leadership programmes, aims to assist development practitioners in understanding the link between these concepts when designing and implementing economic empowerment programming.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
A toolkit containing many useful tools on how to conduct a gender analysis, especially practical for actions in areas of value chain and farmer's associations and cooperatives.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This guidance offers a range of community-level approaches to addressing violence against women and girls.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This practical guide explains what violence against women is, why it happens, what it has to do with international development efforts and what can be done to address it.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers, HR Officers

When can it be useful?
This Toolkit provides practical tips and tools to integrate Gender Equality and Social Inclusion considerations and elements (GESI Mainstreaming) in your interventions.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers, HR Officers

When can it be useful?
The toolkit can help you design activities and programs and can be a useful resource for planning processes, such as a strategic plans.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This document lists inter-agency minimum standards for child protection and provides guidance on how to implement each of them.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This document outlines the definition and objectives of humanitarian protection from the European Commission’s perspective, and provides guidance on programming for protection in humanitarian crises as well as on measuring the effect of the interventions.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource explains how to mainstream and monitor protection in cash-based interventions in any programme context.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
The Charter outlines the commitments made by signatory organizations to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource explains the minimum technical humanitarian standards used in four main programming areas, including WASH, food security and nutrition, shelter and NFIs, and health. It also includes the Humanitarian charter, Protection principles and Common Humanitarian Standard brief.

Language: English, French, Arabic, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
DG ECHO' s operational guidance on how to include persons with disabilities into humanitarian interventions.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
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.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
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.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

Also available in: French, Spanish, Arabic

When can it be useful?
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.

Language: English, French, Arabic, Spanish

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers

When can it be useful?
Useful when planning evaluations of humanitarian interventions, to ensure that the evaluation includes a thorough look at how Protection is mainstreamed in the interventions.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource provides an overview of what safe spaces are, and what key principles should be followed when establishing such spaces in humanitarian and post-crisis contexts.

Language: English

Region: Middle East

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers, HR Officers