Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness (PASSA) Manual
Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness (PASSA) is a participatory method of disaster risk reduction (DRR) related to shelter safety. Its aim is to develop local capacity to reduce shelter-related risk by raising awareness and developing skills within communities.
Minimum Standards for local climate-smart disaster risk reduction
The IFRC developed these minimum standards as a guide to help local community leaders, disaster risk reduction (DRR) practitioners and policymakers ensure that DRR efforts are geared towards more uncertain future risk patterns caused by a changing climate.
They are also intended to be a useful guide for planners and donors to make sure DRR programming meets climate change adaptation (CCA) need.
Manual on prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse
The British Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross and IFRC, with input from Movement colleagues globally, have prepared this “Manual on prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse - Operationalizing practical actions to guide leadership, headquarters and field teams”.
The manual accompanies the IFRC PSEA policy with guiding practical actions needed from the leadership, headquarters and field teams. It applies equally to National Societies and IFRC and fills a much-needed gap to ensure that we effectively develop and roll out PSEA policies in the Movement and ensure that all staff and volunteers at all levels are aware of the principles and key actions to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse.
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Addressing Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) is everyone's responsibility
Responsibilities of security leads in PSEA
Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) Monthly Report: July 2020
In July, the largest single cash-based transfer of 370,441,220 TRY was delivered to 1,752,616 individuals (308,095 households) living under international and temporary protection in Türkiye as part of the EU-funded Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN). The transfer included the second instalment of the economic top-up of 500 TRY per household (total 154,047,500 TRY), which aimed to help ESSN recipients cope with the challenges brought on by COVID-19.
Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) Monthly Report: May 2020
In May 2020, the EU-funded Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme successfully delivered cash assistance to vulnerable refugees in Türkiye without major restrictions and referrals as well as other supports to communities continued amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Communication with communities ramped up, including providing critical health messaging to vulnerable groups about protecting themselves and responding to COVID-19.
COVID-19: key messages on protection, gender and inclusion
This short guidance provides key messages on how to ensure protection, gender and inclusion is considered in the response to the COVID-19 outbreak. It provides suggestions on how to ensure Dignity, Access, Participation and Safety for all affected, especially thoseat higher risk of exclusion, violence and discrimination.
You can also find technical guidance on protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19 here.
A guide for the media on communicating in public health emergencies
In a health crisis, the media has the power to save lives. Effective communication can help to prevent or reduce the spread of disease, and guide those affected towards health services and treatment. This manual provides tips for media practitioners on how to help audiences during health emergencies. It was created by BBC Media Action for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies as part of the Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Programme.
BBC Media Action offers additional manuals for humanitarians on working with broadcasters and on media programming for communities affected by humanitarian crises on its website.
This guide is available in a wide range of additional languages (Armenian, Azeri, Bahasa, Bangla, Belarusian, French, Georgian, Romanian, Swahili, Russian, Ukrainian) on BBC Media Action's Lifeline Programming website.
Closing the gap: A strategy to strengthen community engagement and accountability in Africa
This strategy aims to help members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Africa make Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) second nature in our work.
It will help members put people’s voices at the heart of our operations and programmes and start shifting the power imbalances that continue to exist. This will ensure that we not only gain the trust of the people we serve, but that our work is relevant and impactful.
A summary of this strategy is also available to download below, as well as posters on how to build trust and strengthen CEA within African and partner National Societies.
Community-based surveillance Protocol template
Community-based surveillance (CBS) is the systematic detection and reporting of events of public health significance within a community by community members. This protocol template provides guidance, design considerations and instructions for designing a CBS system. The contents cover the array of elements and activities which are important in CBS implementation.
It can be used in both emergency and non-emergency preparedness settings and alongside the community-based surveillance assessment tool and CBS guiding principles.
Global Compact on Refugees - Policy briefing
In 2016, UN Member States across the world adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, containing a new Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), and setting in motion the process towards the adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) in December 2018.
This policy briefing offers analysis of the GCR and recommendations on how to make it a reality.
A guide for the media on communicating in public health emergencies
In a health crisis, the media has the power to save lives.Effective communication can help to prevent or reduce the spread of disease, and guide those affected towards health services and treatment. This manual provides tips for media practitioners on how to help audiences during health emergencies. It was created by BBC Media Action for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the framework of the Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Programme. BBC Media Action offers additionalmanualsfor humanitarians on working with broadcasters and on media programming for communities affected by humanitarian crises on its website.
This guide is also available in French below, and on the BBC Media Action website in:Arabic Armenian Azeri Bahasa Bangla BelarusianGeorgian Romanian Swahili Russian Ukrainian
New Walled Order: How barriers to basic services turn migration into a humanitarian crisis
Around the world, migrants, especially irregular migrants, increasingly face barriers to accessing essential services that are indispensable to their survival and basic dignity, such as health care, shelter, food and legal assistance.
There are a range of factors that prevent this access, including outright exclusions but also more indirect factors, such as fears of arrest, detention and deportation, prohibitively high service costs, and language issues.
This report highlights how better support to vulnerable migrants is needed now to overcome or remove these barriers.
Find out more about our worksupporting people on the move.
Rights of Migrants in Action: Child Protection Projects
This report provides a summary of lessons learned from child protection projects in Benin, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guetamala and Indonesia that were conducted as part of the IFRC's global Rights of Migrants in Action (RoMiA) project between 2014-2017.
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s Pledges to the Grand Bargain
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are both signatories to the Grand Bargain, an agreement made in 2016 between major donors and humanitarian agencies to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and reach of humanitarian action in a number of ways.
This document sets out our Movement's pledges in relation to the Grand Bargain.
Building urban resilience: A guide for Red Cross and Red Crescent engagement and contribution
Cities and urban areas provide important opportunities for the development of communities and nations. But risks caused by rapid and often improper urbanization, compounded by natural hazards, create some of the major challenges in the 21st Century.
This guide offers advice on how Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and our partners can best build urban resilience in light of increasing and changing urban risks.