ALL THEMES
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Humanitarian Principles and Global Standards
- Quality Humanitarian Project Management & Implementation
- Emergency Preparedness & Early 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
- Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
- PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools
- Child Protection and Well-Being
- Inclusion and gender
- Environment and Climate Change
- Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing
- Learning Outcomes
- Labour market assessment and employment
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
- One World in Schools (OWIS)
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Introduction to Nutrition
- Nutrition Security Assessments
- Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) (incl. mHealth and Positive Deviance)
- Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
- Nutrition and WASH
- Nutrition and Gender
- Nutrition Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Programming
- Nutrition in Emergencies
Emergency Preparedness and Response
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
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This resource explains PIN's commitments and priorities in terms of humanitarian aid for the strategic period 2017-2021, including key priorities, expected results, required investments and actions, and relevant responsibilities.
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This resource lists the 10 fundamental humanitarian principles that PIN as well as other humanitarian actors adhere to. They give guidance on how humanitarian aid should be provided and what impacts should be sought for the affected population.
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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.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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Humanitarian Principles and Global Standards
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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.
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This resource lists the 10 fundamental humanitarian principles that PIN as well as other humanitarian actors adhere to. They give guidance on how humanitarian aid should be provided and what impacts should be sought for the affected population.
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This resource explains the nine commitments that humanitarian actors can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of their assistance. PIN strives to meet these commitments. The versions in 25 other languages can be downloaded from https://corehumanitarianstandard.org/the-standard/language-versions
Emergency Preparedness & Early Action
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This resource explains PIN's commitments and priorities in terms of humanitarian aid for the strategic period 2017-2021, including key priorities, expected results, required investments and actions, and relevant responsibilities.
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This resource provides lessons learned from the development of the Early Warning System in Cambodia by PIN.
Distributions
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This resource is aimed at Shelter/NFI team members working in distribution assessments, planning, implementation and post distribution monitoring of distributions of Shelter materials, NFIs and cash. It highlights ways in which distributions can reduce some of the risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and avoid doing harm. Simply put, this booklet is about good distributions.
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This resource provide an introductory guide on how to design, implement and utilize the data of PDM for Shelter and NFI distributions, with a rich section of annexes where operative guides and tools are collected.
Humanitarian Donors & Rapid Funding
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This is the detailed guide on accessing the Start Fund.
Cash and Vouchers Assistance in Emergencies
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to Cash and Voucher Assistance.
Markets in Emergencies
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to Market and Private Sector related section.
Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
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Nutrition in Emergencies
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This link will take you to the KLC section dedicated to nutrition security.
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to nutrition in humanitarian programs.
WASH in Emergencies
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to WASH.
Shelter, NFIs & Settlements in Emergencies
Also available in: Arabic
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These practical guidelines provide a comprehensive technical standard operating procedure for shelter repair and rehabilitation programmes in Syria. It contains practical tips and guidance for all phases of project cycle. It was developed specifically for Syria but if adapted to local context, could be a good inspiration and useful resource for other countries and shelter repair projects.
Also available in: Arabic, French
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This resource provides a comprehensive guide on how to design disability-inclusive emergency response and shelter program.
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This resource can help you to introduce HLP to field staff.
Education in Emergencies
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to Education.
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This resource provides a set of materials and related guidance that can be used in designing, planning and operating Child Friendly Spaces in emergencies.
Environment in Emergencies
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Guidance on DG ECHO's environmental principles, sector specific and cross-cutting overview.
COVID-19 Response
This site offers the most useful resources for your COVID-19 response activities (make sure that you are logged in the internal version of KLC so that you can see all the available resources). It is updated several times a week. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please. Explore also additional guidance included in other thematic sections of this website.
Key Resources
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This e-learning provides key information on COVID-19, how to protect yourself and how to engage communities. Available in multiple languages.
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This site provides a useful overview of questions & answers on COVID-19.
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This site includes guidance on applying the Sphere standards to COVID-19 response activities.
Protecting Staff and Beneficiaries
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This e-learning provides key information on COVID-19, how to protect yourself and how to engage communities. Available in multiple languages.
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WHO guidance video and materials on when and how to use a mask.
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Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for distributions taking COVID-19 prevention measures into account – Syria Food Security example that is relevant to many other countries.
Awareness Raising & Behaviour Change Communication
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This brief outlines findings and recommendations on four key aspects of effective communication with communities and countering misinformation about COVID-19 risks: language, format, relevant content and channel.
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This site offers a (frequently updated) overview of useful COVID-19 behaviour change communication guidance, tools and various materials (posters, leaflets, etc.)
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This short guidance is a part of PIN's Behaviour Change Toolkit. It explains how to design and pre-test your communication messages and materials.
Public Health and WASH
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WHO guidance on a range of infection prevention and control topics.
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WHO technical brief on WASH in text context of COVID-19.
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This document provides an example of a COVID-19 hygiene kit (Iraq WASH Cluster COVID-19 guidance).
Nutrition and Care
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A compilation of resources published by the Global Nutrition Cluster (updated regularly).
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This resource briefly explains the family MUAC approach and contains useful links to communities of practice.
Also available in: French
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This guide is designed to assist health and nutrition staff responsible for the management and coordination of Community-based Management of Acute
Malnutrition (CMAM) operations to adapt and modify programme modalities in the context of COVID-19.
Training and Education
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This Activity Book includes a collection of 60 activities to support children’s (and adult's) physical, social, emotional and cognitive wellbeing. It can be used by caregivers to provide activities for children at home or by facilitators to run activities with groups of children.
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These two guides provide guidance to teachers and parents/caregivers on how to support children's learning and wellbeing during school closures, and continuing once schools reopen. The guides may need to be adapted to local contexts, and where possible, they should be accompanied by contextualised illustrations to support lower literacy households.
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This document talks through key messages and actions for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in schools. It also provides practical checklists to help organizations adhere to relevant guidance in their educational work with different groups, including schools, parents, communities and children
Market-Based Programming
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This resource provides key notes to consider during each step of the project cycle in cash and voucher assistance (CVA), in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This resource provides practical guidance on what to consider when adjusting your CVA responses to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, to reduce risks and contribute to minimizing the spread of COVID-19, while ensuring your responses remain flexible to the changing market context.
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This resource provides a brief overview of and links to the different market assessment guidance and tools that exist for humanitarian contexts, it can be useful when deciding which tool is best for your information needs.
Good Governance
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This document explains community engagement and risk communication framework. It is designed primarily for higher-level actors but provides useful information and guidance even for interventions at a lower level.
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This statement highlights the core advocacy messages related to ensuring human rights in the context of COVID-19 crisis and various emergency measures taken by the governments. It was produced by the European Partnership for Democracy, a network of organizations (including PIN) that work on defending democracy and human rights issues globally.
MEAL
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A collection of briefly-summarized best practices for conducting phone surveys.
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This toolkit provides practical tips and guidance on conducting remote (phone-based) surveys. Focus primarily on chapters 1 and 2.
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CHS Alliance guidance on how to meet quality and accountability commitments in the time of COVID-19. Includes links to many other useful resources.
Protection, Gender and Inclusion
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This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19
Also available in: Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian
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This short guidance provides key messages on how to ensure protection, gender and inclusion is considered in the response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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This resource provides practical guidance on how to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement.
Formal and Informal Camps and Camp-Like Settlements
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This guidance describes specific needs and considerations required for providing humanitarian assistance in formal and informal camps and camp-like settings as well as the surrounding host communities, aiming at scaling-up readiness and response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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This brief sets out key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19.
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Interim guidance on Shelter and Settlements Response to COVID-19 with tips for key emergency actions for shelter and settlements response, considerations for settlement planning and improved shelter.
Cash and Voucher Assistance
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your cash and voucher assistance (CVA). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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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.
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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?
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.
Introduction to Cash and Voucher Assistance
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The main website of The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), a global partnership of humanitarian actors engaged in policy, practice and research within Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA).
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This is an online discussion group on all things cash and voucher assistance, and a useful way to keep abreast of related discussions and pose key questions to the broader cash and voucher assistance community.
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This report critically analyses the current state of CVA in humanitarian aid, and the extent to which commitments have been achieved, in order to provide shared insights that can accelerate progress.
Needs Assessment & Response Analysis
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These documents constitute the final draft of the Basic Needs Assessment (BNA) Guidance and Toolbox, commissioned by Save the Children within the broader framework for the uptake of quality, collaborative multipurpose grants (MPGs).
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The ROAP ultimately leads to the selection of the most appropriate, operationally feasible, and cost efficient response options to achieve sector and inter-sector objectives for specific target groups and geographic areas. It considers in-kind transfers, direct service delivery, vouchers, cash transfers, and combinations of those.
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The “Cash Feasibility and Response Analysis Toolkit” aims to assist operations in determining the feasibility of cash-based interventions (CBIs) in UNHCR country programmes. The toolkit brings together new tools and knowledge on conducting cash feasibility assessments and response analysis that have emerged since the publication of the UNHCR Operational Guidelines for Cash-based Interventions (OG)
Modalities
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The Cash Transfer Implementation Guide is written for Program Managers actively managing cash transfer programs. If you are reading this Implementation Guide, it is assumed you are familiar with the preconditions for CTP and the advantages and disadvantages of cash transfer programs. If not, please read the Cash Transfer Programming Methodology Guide.
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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.
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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.
Transfer Mechanisms
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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.
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The Cash Transfer Implementation Guide is written for Program Managers actively managing cash transfer programs. If you are reading this Implementation Guide, it is assumed you are familiar with the preconditions for CTP and the advantages and disadvantages of cash transfer programs. If not, please read the Cash Transfer Programming Methodology Guide.
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.
Sectors
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Evidence is lacking on how far multi-purpose cash contributes to sectoral outcomes in health, WASH, shelter, food security
and nutrition, education, livelihoods, energy and environment programming, and how sectoral interventions should include multi-purpose cash along with other activities to best reach intended sectoral outcomes that contribute to protection. This report helps address this gap.
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This report examines the body of research that provides evidence of the impact of CTP on education and child protection outcomes and provides a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of existing evidence and identifies gaps in the knowledge base for future research prioritisation.
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This publication summarizes the current use of cash-based interventions (CBI) in WASH programming, explains the best practices and lessons learned, and provides recommendations for use of CBI in refugee settings.
Market Analysis
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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.
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This is an online discussion group on all things markets in crisis, and a useful way to keep abreast of related discussions and pose key questions to the broader markets in crisis community.
Also available in: French, Spanish
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This resource is a set of tools and guidance notes for front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate, and make use of market systems, it provides detailed guidance on each of the steps involved in market assessment.
Monitoring & Evaluation
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This guidance provides a central ‘living’ resource to promote a common understanding of the most important monitoring considerations for humanitarian projects using cash transfer programming (CTP).
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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.
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This paper examines how cash transfers, as well as vouchers, are incorporated in Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) in 2018, as these are key planning documents for international humanitarian assistance.
Cross-Cutting Topics
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This study tests the commonly held assumption that greater collaboration results in greater efficiency or effectiveness. It establishes drivers and measures of efficiency and effectiveness in CTP delivery; characterises different models of collaboration for cash delivery; and assesses these different models against the measures of efficiency and effectiveness.
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This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of seven institutional models for cash coordination, as well as the level of stakeholder endorsement for each option.
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This systematic review attempts to fill an evidence gap by reviewing a comprehensive list of indicators around outcomes
for children in health, food security, nutrition, protection, and education. These indicators include both those that indirectly
concern children, such as maternal health status, as well as those that directly affect children, such as the child’s health.
Training Materials
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This session will introduce you to the fundamentals of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and will help you to begin understanding it. No knowledge of CVA is required to do this course.
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A comprehensive selection of trainings on Cash & Livelihoods Interventions.
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This 5-day course, developed by the Fritz Institute in conjunction with CaLP, is structured around the humanitarian project cycle and allows a range of operations staff to understand their role and function in the design, implementation and monitoring of cash and voucher assistance.
Market Development
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your market development programming (covering market systems development and other private sector development approaches). If you feel that an important resource is missing, please let us know.
Key Resources
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to improving people’s livelihoods and protecting the natural environment.
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This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s access to products and services that can improve their lives, through effective engagement of the private sector.
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This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s demand for products and services that can improve their lives through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems approach.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This video provides an overview of a livestock market development project implemented by PIN and partners in Cambodia, and includes an overview of the constraints the project was aimed at addressing and how these were being addressed.
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This resource features practical project examples and lessons from PINs market systems development programming across different countries.
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This website includes a range of resources on market systems development with a particular focus on market-based approaches and behaviour change.
Market Assessments
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This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to assist poor producers to sell their products in more profitable markets through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems development approach.
When can it be useful?
This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s demand for products and services that can improve their lives through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems approach.
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This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s access to products and services that can improve their lives, through effective engagement of the private sector.
Labour Market Assessments and Employment
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This good practice guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on engaging the private sector to ensure that Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes sustainably increase access to productive and fulfilling employment opportunities.
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This is a practical example of a labour market assessment report from an assessment conducted by PIN in Mosul Iraq to identify employment opportunities (with a specific focus on women and people with disabilities), it can be useful when planning or conducting a labour market assessment in a recovery context, the assessment tools are included in Annex.
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This guide aims to help humanitarians conduct better labour market analyses (LMA) to inform the design and delivery of livelihoods and market strengthening programmes in emergency and post-crisis settings.
Facilitation Approaches
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This website page has an extensive range of resources (guides, publications, tools, case studies) on the topic of market facilitation used in market systems development projects.
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This brief learning note summarises lessons learned on facilitation tactics from ILO market system projects, it includes a link to an online roleplaying game to test your facilitation skills.
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This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to assist poor producers to sell their products in more profitable markets through effective engagement of the private sector and the use of a market systems development approach.
Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships
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This guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on how to increase poor people’s access to products and services that can improve their lives, through effective engagement of the private sector.
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This toolkit provides comprehensive guidance (including practical tools, templates and case studies) on how to effectively building strategic partnerships with the private sector, it can be particularly useful when working with larger companies, Tool 4 is a practical tool and checklist for a Due Diligence assessment of a potential private partner.
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This document describes the key guiding principles that inform Hivos' partnerships and support to the private sector, it draws from the UN Global Compact's ten principles and covers important topics such as human rights, gender, labour, corruption and the environment.
Value Chain Development
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This website provides guidance on the value chain development approach, ranging from introductory information to more detailed guidance, it can be useful when wanting to understand different concepts and terms.
Also available in: Spanish, French, Russian
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This guide provides guidance on the value chain development approach as applied by the ILO (so with a specific focus on employment), it is shorter than most other guides (24 pages) and therefore can be a useful way to quickly review guidance on this topic.
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This guide provides practical guidance on how to support value chain development to create 'decent work' employment opportunities and improve working conditions in targeted sectors, it covers initial assessments, sector selection, implementation and monitoring.
Monitoring and Evaluation of MSD
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This website provides guidance on the use of practical indicators for market development interventions.
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This learning note by Mercy Corps provides practical advice on how to integrate an adaptive management approach into your programming, covering organisational culture, people and skills, and tools and systems.
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This briefing paper on the Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond framework provides implementers with an approach to manage and measure the extent to which new behaviours and practices introduced by a project are owned and spread across an industry by project partners themselves ('systemic change').
Women's Economic Empowerment
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This website page includes a range of resources (guides, publication, case studies, tools) on the topic of women's economic empowerment in market systems projects.
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This website has an extensive array of resources (articles, evidence papers, guides etc) related to private sector development, including resources on MSD, women’s economic empowerment, engaging the private sector in fragile contexts, and on results measurement.
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This document provides practical tools and guidance on supporting women’s empowerment in market systems development projects.
Markets in Emergency / Recovery Contexts
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This Minimum Economic Recovery Standards are internationally recognized standards for building economic resilience for crisis-affected communities, they can be useful to review when designing and planning activities in humanitarian contexts.
Also available in: French, Spanish
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This resource is a set of tools and guidance notes for front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate, and make use of market systems, it provides detailed guidance on each of the steps involved in market assessment.
When can it be useful?
This resource provides practical tips and examples on market support programming in humanitarian contexts.
Education and Skills
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your education and skills programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This resource is divided into two Guides; "Part 1: WHAT EiE is, WHY we do it and what GUIDES us" and "Part 2: Planning, Implementing and Monitoring an EiE Response Introduction to PIN’s approach to EiE". They provide information on the theory of EiE, PIN’s EiE Framework,cross-cutting themes and step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and monitor EiE activities.
When can it be useful?
This link will take you to INDIKIT set of education and skills indicators, that can be used within your project proposal development.
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This document outlines PIN's child-centred approach to education in emergencies (EiE)
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This resource provides structured guidance and a series of lesson plans to engage community members in activities aimed at improving social cohesion
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This research was conducted within the context of the TVET Imereti Project for PiN’s “Improving Formal, Non-formal and Informal Vocational Education for the Agribusiness in Georgia” project. The project is intended to improve the linkages between the labor market demands of the agribusiness sector, and the skills and qualifications offered by the formal, non-formal and informal VET.
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This resources provides recommendations on how the VET sector, and particularly this project’s partner organizations (in this case in Imereti), can better engage with the private sector.
Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
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This resource is divided into two Guides; "Part 1: WHAT EiE is, WHY we do it and what GUIDES us" and "Part 2: Planning, Implementing and Monitoring an EiE Response Introduction to PIN’s approach to EiE". They provide information on the theory of EiE, PIN’s EiE Framework,cross-cutting themes and step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and monitor EiE activities.
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This document outlines PIN's child-centred approach to education in emergencies (EiE)
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This Guide provides key information on PIN’s approach to Psychosocial Support (PSS) – what it is, who it is for, when we do it and how we do it. It introduces the Framework that guides us and provides practical guidance and tools for how to design, implement and monitor PSS activities.
PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools
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This resource includes tools needed to set up a participatory approach to School Improvement Planning (SIP), engaging stakeholders in designing, budgeting for, implementing and monitoring activities towards school improvement. It includes: SIP Guidance Note, SIP checklist, SIP template and SIP reporting template.
When can it be useful?
This resource includes a series of Quality Standards Checklists (QSCs) for education. The QSCs include sections on planning, implementation and monitoring, and can be used as a checklist to assure quality throughout the project cycle. Included are QSCs for: Child Friendly Spaces, Psychosocial Support, School Rehabilitation, Cross-cutting Themes, a General School Checklist and Project Development.
When can it be useful?
These two guides provide guidance to teachers and parents/caregivers on how to support children's learning and wellbeing during school closures, and continuing once schools reopen. The guides may need to be adapted to local contexts, and where possible, they should be accompanied by contextualised illustrations to support lower literacy households.
Child Protection and Well-Being
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This Guide provides key information on PIN’s approach to Psychosocial Support (PSS) – what it is, who it is for, when we do it and how we do it. It introduces the Framework that guides us and provides practical guidance and tools for how to design, implement and monitor PSS activities.
When can it be useful?
This Guidance Note provides key definitions and strategies for improving and supporting the standardisation of psychosocial support (PSS) interventions.
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This Toolkit provides all the resources needed to initiate a Safe Healing Learning Space in an emergency including tools for social emotional learning (SEL), reading, maths and parental support.
Inclusion and gender
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The EiE-GenKit is a series of tools and practical guidance that helps practitioners ensure education in emergencies (EiE) interventions and programmes are gender-responsive and inclusive
When can it be useful?
This guide provides useful advice on how to promote gender-responsive programming in education.
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.
Environment and Climate Change
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This resource is a research piece created by Plan International which addresses the intersection bewteen climate change and girls education.
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.
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.
Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing
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This resource shares promising policies, practices, and research approaches for supporting teachers in crisis contexts including 42 case studies from around the world
When can it be useful?
The Accelerated Education Introductory Teacher Training pack (AEITTP) is designed specifically for teachers working in accelerated education programme (AEP) classes and teaching learners generally aged 10-18 who are overage for their grade.
When can it be useful?
This resource provides practical tips for organizations undertaking workshops focused on teacher wellbeing and contextualising the resources for their contexts and action planning on integration of teacher wellbeing.
Learning Outcomes
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This package of tools provides guidance on what ASER is and how to conduct literacy and numeracy assessments using the ASER tools. It also includes sample ASER tools that can be adapted to a specific context as well as a reporting template.
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.
Labour market assessment and employment
When can it be useful?
The three-part Market Assessment Toolkit for VT Providers and Youth is a combination of resources, questionnaires and activities to assist VT programs and youth to gather information on market demand and translate it into programming that responds to a dynamic business environment and youth needs.
When can it be useful?
This research was conducted within the context of the TVET Imereti Project for PiN’s “Improving Formal, Non-formal and Informal Vocational Education for the Agribusiness in Georgia” project. The project is intended to improve the linkages between the labor market demands of the agribusiness sector, and the skills and qualifications offered by the formal, non-formal and informal VET.
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This website page involves a range of resources on employment creation, including publications that provide insights into solutions and challenges in creating jobs, it can be useful when searching for evidence on this topic.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
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This good practice guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on engaging the private sector to ensure that Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes sustainably increase access to productive and fulfilling employment opportunities.
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This resources provides recommendations on how the VET sector, and particularly this project’s partner organizations (in this case in Imereti), can better engage with the private sector.
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This resource can help you with a curriculum development process.
One World in Schools (OWIS)
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This brochure presents the One World in Schools methodology, one of the PIN's flagships and an innovative approach to youth civic engagement. The booklet provides general information as well examples from recent projects.
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A brief overview of One World in Schools methodology, its application for Media Literacy, critical thinking skills and disinformation resilience in the context of Eastern Partnership and Balkan countries.
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to climate change mitigation and adaptation. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach and give you some examples on Productive and Climate-Resilient Landscapes
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The resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach on clean and low-carbon energy solutions (renewable energy, improved cook stoves, eco-briquets, etc.), also integrated in a Market Systems Development approach
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This journal provides both information on climate funds as well as examples of climate-related projects implemented by PIN
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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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
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The resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach on clean and low-carbon energy solutions (renewable energy, improved cook stoves, eco-briquets, etc.), also integrated in a Market Systems Development approach
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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
Climate Change - General Resources
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Sixth Assessment Report from the IPCC on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - Summary for Policymakers. This resource can provide an overview on the most recent studies from the scientific community worldwide
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Sixth Assessment report from the IPCC (The Physical Science Basis - Summary for Policymakers) useful to understand global trends and scientific evidence of climate change
Assessing climate risk and vulnerability
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This resource can help in understanding what are the climate vulnerabilities and how to increase climate resilience in the Western Province - Zambia, with a focus on climate-resilient agriculture and agri-businesses
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Handbook to inform community-based adaptation, resilience and gender equality
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This resource can give you an overview on how to design a Climate Vulnerability Assessment at activity, project and strategy level and includes several examples and references.
Climate Change Adaptation
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This resource can help in understanding what are the climate vulnerabilities and how to increase climate resilience in the Western Province - Zambia, with a focus on climate-resilient agriculture and agri-businesses
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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 Finance
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This table may inspire you when you are looking for funding for your climate-related project idea
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This journal provides both information on climate funds as well as examples of climate-related projects implemented by PIN
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This resource can help you identify existing sources of funds for climate change programmes and projects
Monitoring and Evaluation
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This resource can help in designing climate change indicators. It includes both climate change mitigation and adaptation performance measurement frameworks (PMFs), associated with proposed indicators, by the Green Climate Fund.
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The resource can help you in designing climate change adaptation indicators. This resource comes from a study made by adaptation and development M&E Experts on M&E systems at regional, national and sub-national levels.
Climate change and cross-cutting issues
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This resource provides the rationale and examples to understand the Gender-Climate-Security triple nexus at different levels
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This resource can help you understand the links between humans and zoonoses and how to prevent the next pandemic
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This short guide offers hands-on guidance to practitioners looking to consider environmental issues in their humanitarian programmes by compiling references in the Sphere Handbook.
Agriculture and Natural Resources Management
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to agriculture and natural resources management (NRM). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to improving people’s livelihoods and protecting the natural environment.
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This website can help you with selecting and using indicators for your agricultural, livelihoods and natural resources management interventions.
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This resource leads you through the main steps in planning, design and implementation of agricultural trainings, helping you to deliver them in the most effective way.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This resource compiles the lessons learned from PIN's agricultural extension services projects in SNNPR, Ethiopia.
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This document presents best practices from PIN, MENDELU and other implementers' landscape management projects that were implemented in Ethiopia between 2010 and 2020, with the financial support of the Czech Development Assistance.
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This resource can help you in understanding PIN's approach and give you some examples on Productive and Climate-Resilient Landscapes
Approaches and practices
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This resource can help you understand the main concept behind good agricultural practices and help you with their promotion as a part of your agricultural interventions.
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This links contains strategies, toolkits and checklists that can help you with maximizing the nutritional impacts of the agricultural interventions.
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This resource can help you conduct a basic training course in conservation agriculture with trees. It provides practical tips on training activities and required materials and information needed for extension workers/trainers.
Agriculture in Emergencies
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This resource provides standards and guidelines on appropriate and timely livestock-based livelihoods responses in emergencies.
Extension & Trainings
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This resource leads you through the main steps in planning, design and implementation of agricultural trainings, helping you to deliver them in the most effective way.
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This resource will help you understand processes and critical decisions that are needed to establish a new farmer field school programme. It details necessary preparatory steps, appropriate implementation period and quality assurance mechanisms.
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This manual provides explanation on how the Private Service Provider (PSP) model, which prepares agents to become independent service providers operating on a market-led basis (in a bid to ensure the long-term availability of SILC services), works.
Monitoring & Evaluation
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This website can help you with selecting and using indicators for your agricultural, livelihoods and natural resources management interventions.
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This resource compiles the lessons learned from PIN's agricultural extension services projects in SNNPR, Ethiopia.
Other
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This manual can explain all the necessary sub-topics in organic agriculture.
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This resource provides useful information about gender in organic agriculture.
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This resource seeks to promote a wider adoption of innovative practices that can contribute to reaching the EU’s climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives in the food and farming sector.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your multi-sectoral nutrition programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This resource can help you in understanding PIN's RDD Strategy for 2022-2026 including PIN's multi-sectoral nutrition approach.
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This toolkit outlines PIN’s multi-sectoral approach to addressing undernutrition and covers the following main topic: types, causes and impacts of undernutrition; integrating nutrition into existing programming; practical options for addressing undernutrition; and tips and tricks for program design, implementation, and M&E.
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This website provides guidance on useful indicators to monitor and measure the impact of nutrition projects.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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In October 2022, PIN together with the Ministry of Health (MoH) conducted a SQUEAC assessment to assess the coverage of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) in Nalolo District’s East and West Banks.
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In February 2021, PIN conducted a SQUEAC assessment to assess the coverage of Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programmes in Kabambare Health Zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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This resource gives an overview of PIN's global approach to ensuring nutrition or food security outcomes from it's agriculture, value chains or other market systems development programmes.
Introduction to Nutrition
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This course has been designed to explore the complicated problem of malnutrition in all its forms, highlighting its multi-sectoral causes, exploring the available evidence and identifying potential solutions.
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This course describes the actions UNICEF Nutrition takes to attempt to alleviate malnutrition, explains why efforts and collaborations with multiple sectors are required to address the underlying causes of malnutrition, and presents some case studies.
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This toolkit outlines PIN’s multi-sectoral approach to addressing undernutrition and covers the following main topic: types, causes and impacts of undernutrition; integrating nutrition into existing programming; practical options for addressing undernutrition; and tips and tricks for program design, implementation, and M&E.
Nutrition Security Assessments
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Five brief checklists focusing on the key stages of the most common nutrition-related surveys enable survey managers to quickly assess whether or not they have omitted an important step which may influence the quality of survey’s data. Each checklist also recommends the best sources of know-how for survey design, implementation and reporting.
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Provides a repository of online nutrition-related Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses
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A practical toolkit for assessing, designing and monitoring acute malnutrition treatment programmes.
Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) (incl. mHealth and Positive Deviance)
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The Community IYCF Counselling Package includes the Facilitator Guide for use in training community workers (CWs); the Participant Materials, consisting of “handouts” and monitoring tools; a set of 24 IYCF Counselling Cards and companion Key Messages Booklet; Take-home Brochures; Planning Guide, and Adaptation Guide.
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This document presents a set of new and updated indicators to assess infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at household level.
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The IYCFEHub is for health and nutrition frontline workers, technical officers, and programme managers interested in accessing the most relevant resources related to infant and young child nutrition. Through the IYCFE Hub you can access a compilation of resources, guidance, protocols, evidence, educational materials and tools.
Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
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This resource gives an overview of PIN's global approach to ensuring nutrition or food security outcomes from it's agriculture, value chains or other market systems development programmes.
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A summary of a project aimed at improving nutrition security and consumption of vitamin A-rich Orange-Flesh Sweet Potato through nutrition-sensitive value chain development. Implemented in Ethiopia, project partners are the International Potato Centre (CIP), PIN, and Emory University.
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A practical checklist for designing, monitoring and evaluating Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture and Livelihoods programmes.
Nutrition and WASH
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A practical guidebook on: increasing nutritional impact through integration of WASH and Nutrition programmes
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This paper reviews the existing evidence on the causes of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction in infants and considerations for nutrition and WASH interventions to be able to effectively reduce the prevalence of stunting worldwide.
Nutrition and Gender
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The Transformative Household Methodology (THM) is a tool that aims at creating awareness of intra-household gender relations between women, men, girls, and boys. The THM identifies the different roles and responsibilities of household members, their access and control over resources, and their related benefits. The purpose of THM training is to create awareness of the participating household on ge
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An textbook on designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating gender-sensitive behaviour change within Nutrition and Food Security programmes.
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This guide is for nutrition programme planners and implementers who aim to integrate gender into multi-sectoral nutrition activities. It shares resources and examples to effectively integrate gender at each phase of a nutrition programme.
Nutrition Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Programming
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A suite of practical tools to harmonise design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition SBC programmes in food and health systems.
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Le guide du programme aborde la manière d’identifier les normes, d’inclure des éléments de changement de normes dans les stratégies et activités de nutrition, qu’elles soient spécifiques ou sensibles à la nutrition, et de suivre et mesurer le changement normatif.
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This guide provides guidance on how to evaluate an activity that uses SBC to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes.
Nutrition in Emergencies
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This new 2023 WHO guideline includes recommendations and good practice statements informed by the best available evidence for
the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema.
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Key guidance for use in food security and nutrition interventions in emergency contexts, to ensure programmes are providing the necessary requirements for adequate infant and young child feeding.
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The IYCFEHub is for health and nutrition frontline workers, technical officers, and programme managers interested in accessing the most relevant resources related to infant and young child nutrition. Through the IYCFE Hub you can access a compilation of resources, guidance, protocols, evidence, educational materials and tools.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This strategy of PIN Ethiopia’s WASH programme explains the approach PIN has taken to improving water, sanitation and hygiene.
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This key document lists the WASH standards that are applied by PIN in the course of its WASH interventions – an essential resource for all PIN staff working on WASH.
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This checklist helps you ensure a higher quality and impact of the water trucking emergency support. It enables you to quickly check whether you have omitted any important steps in the design, budgeting, implementation and M&E of the water trucking activities.
Examples of PIN's Interventions
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This video illustrates the results of PIN’s WASH interventions in the rural areas of Ethiopia.
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This study shows the results of comparing the effectiveness of two types of intervention to improve sanitation and hygiene behaviours: hygiene promotion and hygiene promotion in combination with sanitation marketing.
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This formative research report presents the main barriers and motivators to practicing the promoted hygiene and sanitation behaviours and shows the approach PIN took to address the barriers.
Water Supply
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This key document lists the WASH standards that are applied by PIN in the course of its WASH interventions – an essential resource for all PIN staff working on WASH.
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This publication provides a comprehensive orientation of the WASH sector, including the key challenges addressed, good practices, and useful lessons learned.
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This publication provides practical guidance on using the multiple-use water services (MUS) approach for improving people’s access to water for a variety of needs, including drinking, hygiene, agriculture and other purposes.
Excreta Disposal
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This key document lists the WASH standards that are applied by PIN in the course of its WASH interventions – an essential resource for all PIN staff working on WASH.
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This publication provides a comprehensive orientation of the WASH sector, including the key challenges addressed, good practices, and useful lessons learned.
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This technical publication provides a very detailed, technical overview of sanitation approaches in low and middle-income countries.
Hygiene & Sanitation Promotion
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This practical manual can help you with designing methodologies for the effective promotion of hygiene practices.
Also available in: Portuguese
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The issue of menstrual hygiene in Angola is not yet properly explored and reflected in the national policies and guidelines, mainly due to lack of scientific evidence. The study tries to fill this gap and provides practical tips for stakeholders, incl. government authorities, on how to tailor action to better respond to girls´ and women´s needs, promote gender equity and improve MHM awareness.
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This study shows the results of comparing the effectiveness of two types of intervention to improve sanitation and hygiene behaviours: hygiene promotion and hygiene promotion in combination with sanitation marketing.
Management & Financing
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This publication provides a comprehensive orientation of the WASH sector, including the key challenges addressed, good practices, and useful lessons learned.
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This brief and practical guide helps you assess the financial viability of a rural water supply system.
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This “how to” note provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to analyse value for money in WASH programmes.
WASH in Emergencies
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This checklist helps you ensure a higher quality and impact of the water trucking emergency support. It enables you to quickly check whether you have omitted any important steps in the design, budgeting, implementation and M&E of the water trucking activities.
When can it be useful?
IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of many emergency WASH (and other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
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This technical publication provides a detailed overview of various sanitation systems and technologies used in emergency contexts.
DRR and Resilience
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to resilience and disaster risk reduction (DRR). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to strengthening the resilience of people and systems.
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This magazine offers inspiration on ways to build resilience, based on case studies from various People in Need programmes across three continents.
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of many disaster risk reduction (and other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of many disaster risk reduction (and other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
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This resource offers a series of 14 guidance notes that can help you with mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in your development programming in hazard-prone countries.
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This toolkit can help you to assess the strengths and shortcomings of existing urban disaster management programmes and take action at every stage of disaster management, with particular relevance to Asia.
Resilience
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This introductory guide can help you understand how the activities you implement can better contribute to strengthening resilience.
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This magazine offers inspiration on ways to build resilience, based on case studies from various People in Need programmes across three continents.
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This handbook explains how to build resilience in various programming areas, based on practical examples and a selection of key tools and resources.
Social Inclusion and Protection
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your programming related to social protection and inclusion. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to addressing social inclusion and protection.
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.
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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.
Social Inclusion
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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.
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This manual provides practical guidance on supporting self-help groups and includes various examples.
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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.
Urban Poverty
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This document provides methodological guidance on how to identify vulnerable people in urban contexts, especially for the purposes of nutrition, food security and livelihoods programming.
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This document explains the importance of secure tenure and provides examples of which solutions (do not) work.
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The website of the iTenure programme provides a set of computer tools that allow the collection of data about land claims in Cambodia, with potential for replication elsewhere.
Gender
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This document introduces basic concepts of gender mainstreaming, defines key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis and provides easy access to practical guidance and tools.
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This handbook sets out the rationale for integrating gender equality into humanitarian action and provides practical guidance for doing so across sectors.
Also available in: French, Spanish
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This two-pager describes IASC's Gender with Age Marker (GAM), an updated and expanded version of the Gender Marker tool that has been used for assessing the extent to which a humanitarian intervention addresses gender- and age-related differences.
Protection in Emergencies
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of protection (and many other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
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The Minimum Standards for Protection Mainstreaming provides concrete guidance to humanitarian actors on how to operationalise the four Sphere protection principles through a set of minimum standards, key actions, indicators and guidance notes for humanitarian actors.
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This document describes eight key inclusion standards as well as specific standards for the sectors of protection, WASH, FSL, nutrition, shelter and NFIs, health and emergency education.
Good Governance
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your good governance programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to strengthening good governance.
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A participatory multi-stakeholder approach to effective planning, implementation and evaluation of social policies and services ensuring that the most vulnerable people are not left behind.
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Drafting a logframe? IndiKit's guidance on the use of Good Governance indicators can help you when developing CSO development, civic engagement and local governance programmes.
Youth Civic Engagement
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This brochure presents the One World in Schools methodology, one of the PIN's flagships and an innovative approach to youth civic engagement. The booklet provides general information as well examples from recent projects.
When can it be useful?
A brief overview of One World in Schools methodology, its application for Media Literacy, critical thinking skills and disinformation resilience in the context of Eastern Partnership and Balkan countries.
CSO/Local Authority Capacity Development
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This document provides case studies and lessons learned to support local governance programmes.
Community Engagement in Development Programs
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A participatory multi-stakeholder approach to effective planning, implementation and evaluation of social policies and services ensuring that the most vulnerable people are not left behind.
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This guide provides overall background principles for governance programming.
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This is a resource to support all country programs better engage with communities/beneficiaries in both development and emergency programmes.
Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
Key Resources
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This resources provides guidance on how to select food security indicIndiKit website offers guidance on the use of many food security (and other) indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about. ators and how to measure them while designing an intervention.
External Resources & Training
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Briefly explains the concepts of food secuirty, nutrition, malnutrition, and livelihoods
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This handbook overviews key food security related indicators.
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This course introduces IPC as an analytical approach for decision-makers. It explains the concepts on which the IPC is based, and provides all the necessary information to appreciate and critically use IPC products.
Resources on Agriculture & Livestock in Emergency
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This link will take you to all the relevant documents at this site dedicated to agriculture and resources management.
Shelter and Infrastructure
Key Resources
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IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of shelter and NFI indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.
When can it be useful?
This recommended website is developed by the Global Shelter Cluster, and is a repository for over 250 case studies, overviews and updates of post-disaster and post-conflict shelter projects. There are multiple points of learning and of good practice that arise time and time again, and this website and publications distil these points into a series of recurring messages.
Also available in: Arabic
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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.
Cash in Shelter
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This resource provides a list of eight case studies from CRS aimed to gain a better understanding of when cash for shelter outcomes works, why it works, and what factors contribute to its success or failure. In six countries project participants were able to meet Sphere and other building standards. In one country, CRS decided against using cash. In another country, CRS used a mixed modality.
Rental Assistance
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This resource explains in detail how to design, manage and monitor rental assistance programs.
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This resource provides a general overview to HLP and rental issues and a country by country profile of HLP situation, shelter response, cross cutting issues and lessons learned.
Settlement Approach
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This resource collects and explains the theoretical principles and the methodology of the settlement/area based approach which is now increasingly promoted by humanitarian actors and donors.
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This resource is a collection of case studies in different geographical areas in which the settlement/area based approach has been implemented
Cross Cutting Themes
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This resource is aimed at Shelter/NFI team members working in distribution assessments, planning, implementation and post distribution monitoring of distributions of Shelter materials, NFIs and cash. It highlights ways in which distributions can reduce some of the risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and avoid doing harm. Simply put, this booklet is about good distributions.
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This resource provides basic information about site planning and gender-based violence risks, it provides practical guidance for measures which can be taken to reduce risks to affected populations in and around camps and sites. This booklet is targeted at field practitioners.
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The resource can help with a wide selection of shelter tipologies from the UNHCR catalogue; with drawings, BoQs and a focus on environmental impact and carbon footprint.
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
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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.
When can it be useful?
A step-by-step guide to calculating the costs for reaching each output and outcome of your project.
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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.
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
When can it be useful?
This brief guide will help you determine the appropriate sample for your survey.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
When can it be useful?
This brief guide will help you clarify and describe the methodology for your survey.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
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A brief overview of mobile data collection (tools, advantages and disadvantages).
Qualitative Data Collection
Also available in: French, Portuguese
When can it be useful?
Guidance and practical tips for conducting individual interviews during surveys, needs assessments, evaluations etc.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
When can it be useful?
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).
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).
Data Analysis
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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.
When can it be useful?
This is a link to the “R project”, which offers a free, integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display.
When can it be useful?
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).
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 RTE of FAO’s humanitarian response to COVID-19 aims to: i) assess the relevance, timeliness, coherence, inclusiveness and business continuity practices of FAO’s humanitarian response; and ii) identify good practices and lessons learned to inform the design and implementation of future similar interventions. The RTE will also feed into the UN’s Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the GHRP
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Data Use and Learning
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This resource summarizes lessons learned from PIN's programs focusing on information management systems
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A collection of examples of how PIN approaches accountability in its work.
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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.
Feedback and Response Mechanisms
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A collection of examples of how PIN approaches accountability in its work.
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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.
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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Drafting a logframe? IndiKit's guidance on the use of Good Governance indicators can help you when developing CSO development, civic engagement and local governance programmes.
Communication & Advocacy
This site offers the most useful resources that can help you increase the quality of your advocacy and communication efforts. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
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This four-page document introduces PIN's Communication & Advocacy Department (CAD), describes its role within PIN and explains how it supports the work done by PIN's country offices.
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This link redirects you to the PIN's webpage on the Publication and Communication subsection. There you can find even more resources related to the PIN's work.
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The resources provided at this site help you design effective advocacy strategies for achieving the desired changes.
INSPIRED Magazines
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This magazine provides useful information on impact investment from the perspective of NGO actors.
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This journal provides both information on climate funds as well as examples of climate-related projects implemented by PIN
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This resource features practical project examples and lessons from PINs market systems development programming across different countries.
PIN Social Media
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Explore what is PIN tweeting to the world!
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This link will open for you the PIN's Youtube channel.
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Explore what is new in PIN's world on its English Facebook!
How To Do Advocacy
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This resource offers a comprehensive set of advocacy strategies and tools for advocates, presented on the case of CSOs in Myanmar.
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This document presents advocacy as one more option in a wide range of program strategies for reducing poverty, and appropriate when you want to influence policies that are at the source of poverty and discrimination and offers tools how to effectively use it.
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This toolkit intends to assist staff at mission, regional and HQ levels to plan, implement and monitor the parts of the advocacy strategy that relate to them.
PIN Global Strategies
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This resource specifies PIN's Relief and Development Department strategy for 2017 - 2021, incl. goals, priorities and sectors.
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to improving people’s livelihoods and protecting the natural environment.
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This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to strengthening good governance.
Innovations
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This resource outlines PIN's innovations strategy from 2022-2024
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This resource describes lessons learned from innovative programs of People in Need and provides ideas for future programming.
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This resource provides an overview of innovations used in the humanitarian and development sector with extra focus on PIN's successful stories.
Innovations - Lessons Learned
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This resource explains the lessons learned from the pilot in Mongu, West Zambia focusing on biochar production and application to soil in agriculture
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This resources presents lessons learned from an innovative pilot focused on a digital educational game for pupils in Iraq with the theme of sustainable water use.
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This resource summarizes lessons learned from PIN's programs focusing on information management systems
Social and Behaviour Change
This site offers the most useful resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your social and behaviour change activities. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
Also available in: French
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This practical toolkit will help you understand what social and behaviour change (SBC) is about, how can you identify and tackle the key barriers to adopting various behaviours (including guidance on conducting Barrier Analysis), what common mistakes you should avoid and much more!
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This website offers practical tools helping relief and development practitioners understand and tackle the barriers that prevent people from following the desired behaviours.
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This brief and practical document present the key SBC lessons learnt from GIZ's food and nutrition security programming. It allows you to avoid not-so-good practices and take advantage of what has worked.
Barrier Analysis (BA)
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This site provides the most useful and up-to-date guidance on conducing Barrier Analysis, including a short description of its main steps (included in the Behaviour Change Toolkit), training of trainers module, checklists, data analysis tool, and more.
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This brief document provides step-by-step guidance on how to code the Barrier Analysis data and how to enter it in the Tabulation Sheet.
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At this site you can find the templates of Barrier Analysis questionnaires in various languages. Contact us please if you can help with translating the template to a currently unavailable language.
Other Methods for Understanding People's Behaviours
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This site brings you the most useful resources on preparing and conducting key informant interviews.
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This publication provides guidance on the use of customer journey mapping - a formative research technique helping us understand people's experience with using (or trying to use) certain service, taking into account not only what happens to them, but also their responses to their experiences.
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This site brings you the most useful resources on preparing and conducting observations.
Tools for Designing Behaviour Change Strategies
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This site presents the most useful and up-to-date guidance on using the DBC framework.
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Explore frequently asked questions about using the DBC Framework.
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The second chapter of this toolkit provides lots of examples and practical guidance on designing behaviour change activities.
Guidance on Designing Behaviour Change Activities
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The second chapter of this toolkit provides lots of examples and practical guidance on designing behaviour change activities.
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This site provides useful guidance on using peer education approach in your behaviour change programming.
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This site provides resources that help you to understand how to use the Positive Deviance approach in your programming, especially related to health and nutrition.
Behaviour Change in Emergencies
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This site provides useful guidance on behaviour change programming in emergencies.
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This report was prepared as part of the Yemen Emergency Multisectoral and Lifesaving Interventions (YEMLI) project that is implemented by ADRA Yemen. The report aims to share the key best practices and lessons learned from ADRA's three years of implementing a multisectoral SBC approach to protecting people’s health and nutritional status.
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This Barrier Analysis (BA) assessment was conducted in Northern and Southern Syria to examine the determinants of three key infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and maternal nutrition behaviors that have been promoted among internally displaced people (IDP) in camp and urban settings in the Aleppo, Idlib and Dar’a Governorates.
Mainstreaming Topics
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This handbook and its annexes provide practical guidance on how to integrate international human rights principles and standards into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development and humanitarian aid projects/programmes.
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These annexes complement the handbook on the same topic that provides practical guidance on how to integrate international human rights principles and standards into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development and humanitarian aid projects/programmes.
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This issue of INSPIRED offers you stories coming from Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, where we provide humanitarian, development or human rights
assistance. We hope that through a thoughtful read, you can decide in what forms and under what circumstances a HRBA can be beneficial for your programmes.
Protection Mainstreaming
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This technical guidance provides partners with the key information required when selecting the Protection Mainstreaming Key Outcome Indicator (PM KOI); and a guide of how to use the verification survey tool/questionnaire developed by DG ECHO
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The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist humanitarian actors and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence (GBV) across all sectors of humanitarian response.
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This publication of the Global Protection Cluster provides practical tips on mainstreaming protection elements and considerations into programmes and throughout the programme cycle.
Gender and Age Mainstreaming
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This document introduces basic concepts of gender mainstreaming, defines key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis and provides easy access to practical guidance and tools.
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This handbook sets out the rationale for integrating gender equality into humanitarian action and provides practical guidance for doing so across sectors.
Also available in: French, Spanish
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This two-pager describes IASC's Gender with Age Marker (GAM), an updated and expanded version of the Gender Marker tool that has been used for assessing the extent to which a humanitarian intervention addresses gender- and age-related differences.
Gender-Based Violence Mainstreaming
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The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist humanitarian actors and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence (GBV) across all sectors of humanitarian response.
Also available in: French, Spanish, Arabic
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This resource presents 16 Minimum Standards for GBV prevention and response programming in emergencies. As a whole, the 16 Minimum Standards define what agencies working on specialized GBV programming need to achieve to prevent and respond to GBV, and deliver multisectoral services.
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This resource explains how to consider protection, gender and inclusion in the response to COVID-19
Disability Mainstreaming
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.
Also available in: French, Spanish
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This two-pager describes IASC's Gender with Age Marker (GAM), an updated and expanded version of the Gender Marker tool that has been used for assessing the extent to which a humanitarian intervention addresses gender- and age-related differences.
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
Environmental Mainstreaming
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These package of tools developed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation can give you operational instruments to perform a from a brief assessment to a more detailed analysis across climate, environmental and DRR components at project and strategy level.
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CEDRA is a climate change and environmental tool for agencies in developing countries and provides a series of useful checklists
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Rapid and simple project-level environmental screening tool for humanitarian operations
Do No Harm & Conflict Sensitive programming
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This resource gives you practical suggestions on how to consider conflict sensitivity in your response at every stage of the PCM