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Operational Guidance, Training, and Toolkits
This section includes practical tools that link human rights and humanitarian action such as relevant training modules, manuals, and guidelines for practice.
| Manuals Relating to Human Rights and Humanitarian Action |
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 | Field Input Matrix Version - Revision of the Pilot Manual to the IASC Operational Guidelines on Protecting Persons Affected by Natural Disasters [Word] (posted: 24 October 2008)
Deadline for Comment: 4 November 2008 | | | Pilot Manual Field Input Version - Revision of the Pilot Manual to the IASC Operational Guidelines on Protecting Persons Affected by Natural Disasters [Word] (posted: 24 October 2008)
Deadline for Comment: 4 November 2008 | | | Protection in Natural Disasters] *For input* Pilot Manual on Protection in Natural Disasters (posted: 22 October 2008)
E-mail Message to ICVA Members, 22 October 2008 | | | Letter to Stakeholders - Revision of the Pilot Manual to the IASC Operational Guidelines on Protecting Persons Affected by Natural Disasters [PDF] (posted: 22 October 2008) | | | Human Rights and Natural Disasters - Operational Guidelines and Field Manual on Human Rights Protection in Situations of Natural Disaster [PDF] (posted: 22 October 2008)
Pilot Version, March 2008 | |  | Protecting Persons Affected by Natural Disasters - IASC Operational Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters [PDF] (posted: 12 February 2007)
IASC Operational Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters | | | Frequently Asked Questions on International Humanitarian, Human Rights, and Refugee Law (posted: 22 July 2003) | | | Unaccompanied Children in Emergencies: A Field Guide for their Protection and Care (posted: 7 October 2002)
Although dated (1988), this guide contains still relevant practical, common sense advice, much of which is prevention-oriented. | | | Guidelines and key documents of interest to the humanitarian community (posted: 7 October 2002) | | | Protecting Refugees: A Field Guide for NGOs, UNHCR (posted: 18 September 2002)
| | | Manual on Field Practice in Internal Displacement, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Brookings Institution (posted: 13 September 2002)
Provides guidance for application of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and concrete examples of the application of the Principles | | | Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (posted: 13 September 2002) | | | The Handbook for Applying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, UN OCHA and the Brookings Institution (posted: 13 September 2002)
Provides guidance for application of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. | |
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| Guidance for Assessment and Practice |
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| Minimum Standards for Protection in Emergencies [PDF] (posted: 26 November 2008)
Published
jointly by Caritas Australia, CARE Australia, Oxfam Australia, and World
Vision Australia, September 2008 | | | Guidelines for Cash Transfer Programming [PDF] (posted: 21 November 2007)
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement | | | Draft IDP Protection Handbook (posted: 29 August 2007) | | | Background - World Vision Protection Standards and Indicators [Word] (posted: 28 August 2007)
June 2007 | | | Questionnaire for feedback on draft UNHCR Manual on a Community-Based Approach to Operations [Word] (posted: 19 June 2007) | | | A Community-Based Approach in UNHCR Operations [PDF] (posted: 19 June 2007)
Provisional Release June 2007 | | | A Community-Based Approach in UNHCR Operations - Annexes [PDF] (posted: 19 June 2007)
Provisional Release June 2007 | | | Operational Protection in Camps and Settlements [PDF] (posted: 19 January 2007)
A Reference Guide of Good Practices in the Protection of Refugees and Other Persons of Concern | | | Sexual Violence Against Refugees: Guidelines on Prevention and Response.UNHCR, Geneva 1995. (posted: 19 November 2002)
The Guidelines address ways to combat the occurrence of sexual violence and how to respond when incidents occur. They emphasize the need for education, training and information campaigns. The Guidelines underline the need for refugees, and in particular refugee women, to receive legal awareness training, leadership and skills training, and education. | | | Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women. UNHCR, Geneva 1991 (posted: 8 November 2002)
Women share the protection problems experienced by all refugees. In addition to this refugee women and girls have special protection needs that refelect their gender. These guidelines address Assessment and Planning, Protection Needs and Responses, Addressing Protection through Assistance and the Follow-up and reporting of Protection Problems related to refugee women | | | Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts, Amnesty International and Rights and Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democracy), 2001. (posted: 3 October 2002)
This is a useful, practical guide to investigating women's rights violations through a gender-sensitive approach to research. It suggests ways to address specific challenges faced by women's rights workers. The manual would be useful to human rights activists, humanitarian relief NGOs, UN and governmental agencies who work to collect information on violence against women. The publication is small and spiral-bound, making it easy to carry in the field. | | | Family Tracing: A Good Practice Guide, Lucy Bonnerjea, Save the Children Development Manual 3, 1994. (posted: 3 October 2002)
Discusses the importance of identification, documentation and tracing for children separated from their parents. Based on the study of experiences in five countries. | | | Field Guidelines, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). (posted: 3 October 2002)
The OCHA Field Guidelines includes a human rights section, which includes the reports of the UN Secretary-General on the Protection of Civilians in Conflict, human rights for relief workers, the Inter-Agency Expert Consultation on Protected Areas Review of the Literature, policy statements on sexual abuse and exploitation and gender, engagement with non-state actors, etc. | | | Children, Not Soldiers: Guidelines for working with child soldiers and children associated with fighting forces, Isobel McConnan and Sarah Uppard, Save the Children-UK, 2001. (posted: 3 October 2002)
This comprehensive publication (softcover book, 348 pages) provides an overview of the problem of child soldiers and the strategies/steps necessary to address different phases (prevention, recruitment, securing release, disarmament and demobilization, transition to civilian life, education and training, justice, etc.). | | | Older People in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises: Guidelines for Best Practice (posted: 18 September 2002)
| | | Common Country Assessment Guidelines (CCAs) (posted: 18 September 2002)
The CCA is a UN country team-based process for reviewing and analysing the national development situation and identifying key issues as a basis for advocacy, policy dialogue, and preparation for the UN Development Assistance Framework. | | | Synopsis of UNHCR's Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women (posted: 18 September 2002)
A synopsis of the guidelines has been prepared by the Women's Commission on Refugee Women and Children. | |
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| Training Modules and Manuals |
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| GBV Guidelines Introduction and Implementation Planning Package (posted: 4 December 2008) | | | Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) Session Plan Module 2 - Session 1Humanitarian Principles and Human Rights, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Sub-Working Group on the CAP with OHCHR, 2001. (posted: 4 October 2002)
The aim of this module, part of a comprehensive CAP training programme, is to develop a framework that reflects the essential foundations of a CAP strategy: humanitarian principles and human rights; complementarity, vulnerability assessment and analysis, and prioritisation. | | | Human Rights and Refugee Training Module, (posted: 4 October 2002)
Although the newer publication Protecting Refugees: A Field Guide for Refugees is in popular use, this training, designed primarily as a training and reference tool for UNHCR Protection Officers in the field, covers both the legal background and thematic areas such as Freedom of Assembly/Expression/Religion, detention and fair hearings, freedom of movement, work, gender issues, etc. | | | Norwegian Refugee Council IDP Training Modules, Global IDP Project. (posted: 4 October 2002)
Global IDP Project. The Global IDP Training Project training package provides information on the definitions of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the responsibilities of governments and intergovernmental bodies toward IDPs, legal origins and obligations, protection from and during displacement and return/resettlement. Community-based programming is emphasized and described. | | | Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Training Modules on Internally Displaced Persons. (posted: 4 October 2002)
The Basic Course on Internal Displacement: Background, Program Foundations and Program Approaches for International Agency Staff is organized into six modules. While all the modules integrate protection themes, Modules 4-6 provide practical information about preventing displacement and providing protection assistance during displacement and return or resettlement. | | | The Refugee Experience: Psychosocial Training Module, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. (posted: 3 October 2002)
This 30-hour psychosocial training module for humanitarian assistance workers includes valuable information on psychological protection and the psychosocial effects of conflict and forced migration. Topics include gender and forced migration, sexual violence, child rights (including discussion of separation, exploitation, child soldiers, etc.)The programme emphasizes the importance of cultural issues in the design of psychosocial programmes. | | | Action for the Rights of Children (ARC), A Rights Based Training and Capacity Building Initiative (posted: 22 September 2002)
Action for the Rights of Children (ARC), a collaborative project between International Save the Children Alliance and UNHCR, seeks to to increase the capacity of UNHCR, governments and non- governmental organizations to protect and care for children and adolescents through all stages of refugee situations, from emergency interventions though durable solutions. | | | Sphere Project Training Manuals (posted: 17 September 2002)
www.sphereproject.org/training_index.htm | |
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