Regional AAP initiative C4C: Connectivity 4 Communication with Communities, Community engagement & Consultative processes

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Community-based outreach outside of camps

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: UNHCR
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: Volunteers, identification, wider community
  • Publication year: N/C

Description

A community-based outreach programme, as a response to the protection and assistance needs of refugees and IDPs in urban contexts, seeks to build on the skills, capacities and knowledge of the wider community, including through trusted and diverse members of their own community. T

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Community centres

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: UNHCR
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: Mobiliziation,education, recreation
  • Publication year: N/C

Description

In situations of forced displacement, the ties which hold a community together are often severely weakened or broken. Open and regular interaction between individuals and groups, their shared values and interests, and their means of minimizing disparities and avoiding marginalization, may need to be supported to regenerate during displacement.

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Posted at 20:46h in Documents

Community-based protection: the ICRC approach

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: ICRC
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: Local communities, protection, children
  • Publication year: 2016

Description

The ICRC tries to ensure that its activities on behalf of IDPs and those at risk of displacement support, rather than undermine, communities’ and individuals’ self-protection mechanisms and coping strategies.

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Posted at 20:21h in AAP Tools

Heightneded risk identification tool

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: UNHCR
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: Interview, Risk, Indicators
  • Publication year: 2020

Description

The Heightened Risk Identification Tool (HRIT) has been developed to enhance UNHCR’s effectiveness in identifying refugees at risk by linking community-based / participatory assessments and individual assessment methodologies. It has been designed for use by UNHCR staff involved in community services and / or protection activities (including resettlement) and partner agencies.

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Posted at 20:18h in Documents, Documents

Risk communication and community engagement - COVID 19

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: UNHCR
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: COVID, Risk, Community
  • Publication year: 2020

Description

This guidance on risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) is intended as a quick reference tool to support colleagues in the field who are working directly with populations of concern. It has been developed in collaboration with regional bureaux specifically in response to the continuously developing COVID-19 situation.
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Posted at 20:12h in Documents

Operational guidance on accountability to affected people

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: UNHCR
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: Feedback, inclusion, underlying
  • Publication year: 2020

Description

Accountability to Affected People (AAP) is widely used in the humanitarian community to refer to the related commitments and mechanisms humanitarian agencies have in place to ensure that communities are meaningfully and continuously involved in decisions that directly impact their live.
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Accountability to affected people self-assessment

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: UNHCR
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: Ranking, Rating, Feedback
  • Publication year: 2020

Description

AAP is implemented in different ways, and to different levels in operations. A quick AAP self- assessment will identify the areas of strength and areas needing improvement. This will inform the operations’ strategy on the areas of the AAP framework to prioritise.

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Weekly logbook sample

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: UNHCR
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: Logbook, feedbacks
  • Publication year: 2020

Description

This can be used by staff in the field to record feedback and complaints for onward forwarding to the office on daily or weekly basis. Variations of this table can be established as excel spreadsheets in line with the needs of the operation. It is not designed for use in recording sensitive and urgent complaints or requests for action .These should be immediately dealt with using the established procedures.

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Posted at 17:08h in AAP Tools

Using television screens: creating inclusive content for persons with disabilities

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  • Resource type: Document
  • Organisation: UNHCR
  • Région: Global
  • Tags: Television, captioning, disabilities
  • Publication year: 2020

Description

In many contexts, humanitarian agencies use digital screens or displays to share important information with communities. These screens can be useful channels to engage communities – but care is needed to minimise excluding groups and exacerbating a ‘digital divide’.

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