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  • 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

    PIN RDD Strategy 2018-2021: Social Inclusion and Protection (PDF, 1.82 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This programming strategy of PIN’s Relief and Development Department (RDD) explains the approach PIN takes to addressing social inclusion and protection.

    PIN RDD Strategy 2018-2021: Social Inclusion and Protection - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Strategies, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2019) IndiKit: guidance on social inclusion and protection indicators (URL)
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    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.

    PIN (2019) IndiKit: guidance on social inclusion and protection indicators - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2019) Gender Analysis Guide (PDF, 3.46 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This document introduces basic concepts of gender mainstreaming, defines key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis and provides easy access to practical guidance and tools.

    PIN (2019) Gender Analysis Guide - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
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    Social Inclusion

    PIN (2018) THE SELF-HELP GROUP APPROACH IN AFGHANISTAN (PDF, 4.44 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This report offers an overview of how the Self-Help Group (SHG) approach has been used by PIN in the Afghan urban context, with a focus on its three main components — social development, economic development and institutional stability.

    PIN (2018) THE SELF-HELP GROUP APPROACH IN AFGHANISTAN - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Asia, Middle East
    Resource type: Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    KNH (2018) The Self Help Group Approach Manual (PDF, 3.09 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This manual provides practical guidance on supporting self-help groups and includes various examples.

    KNH (2018) The Self Help Group Approach Manual - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Innovations
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    Oxfam (2012) Social norms diagnostic tool (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    The social norms guidance document is a set of exercises that helps practitioners to identify and discuss the social norms, perceptions and expectations that shape, constrain or promote young women’s economic empowerment in economic development initiatives within their context; and to develop initial ideas for change strategies.

    Oxfam (2012) Social norms diagnostic tool - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Urban Poverty

    ACF (2010) Identification of vulnerable people in urban environments (PDF, 2.31 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    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.

    ACF (2010) Identification of vulnerable people in urban environments  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    HFHI (2015) From slums to sustainable communities: The transformative power of secure tenure (PDF, 544.1 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This document explains the importance of secure tenure and provides examples of which solutions (do not) work.

    HFHI (2015) From slums to sustainable communities: The transformative power of secure tenure - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    Multiple authors (2018) iTenure (innovative good practice from Cambodia) (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    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.

    Multiple authors (2018) iTenure (innovative good practice from Cambodia) - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Asia
    Resource type: Innovations
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Gender

    PIN (2019) Gender Analysis Guide (PDF, 3.46 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This document introduces basic concepts of gender mainstreaming, defines key areas of inquiry to take into consideration when undergoing a gender analysis and provides easy access to practical guidance and tools.

    PIN (2019) Gender Analysis Guide - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    IASC (2018) The Gender Handbook for Humanitarian Action (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This handbook sets out the rationale for integrating gender equality into humanitarian action and provides practical guidance for doing so across sectors.

    IASC (2018) The Gender Handbook for Humanitarian Action - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    IASC (2020) Introduction to Gender with Age Marker (GAM) (PDF, 172.47 KB)
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    Also available in: French, Spanish

    When can it be useful?
    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.

    IASC (2020) Introduction to Gender with Age Marker (GAM) - overview
    Language: English, French, Spanish
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
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    Protection in Emergencies

    PIN (2019) IndiKit: Guidance on Indicators on Protection in Emergencies (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    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.

    PIN (2019) IndiKit: Guidance on Indicators on Protection in Emergencies  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    World Vision International (2012) Minimum Inter-Agency Standards for Protection Mainstreaming (PDF, 2.98 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    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.

    World Vision International (2012) Minimum Inter-Agency Standards for Protection Mainstreaming - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    ADCAP (2015) Minimum Standards for Age and Disability in Humanitarian action (PDF, 3.54 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    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.

    ADCAP (2015) Minimum Standards for Age and Disability in Humanitarian action - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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