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Protection in Emergencies

Protection in emergencies aims to restore dignity and respect for human rights during crises. It involves understanding vulnerabilities, preventing rights violations, and promoting safety. Key approaches include mainstreaming protection across all sectors, using participatory methods to understand community needs and capacities, and employing a human rights-based framework.

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Protection in Emergencies

Protection in emergencies aims to restore dignity and respect for human rights during crises. It involves understanding vulnerabilities, preventing rights violations, and promoting safety. Key approaches include mainstreaming protection across all sectors, using participatory methods to understand community needs and capacities, and employing a human rights-based framework.

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Protection in Emergencies

Consolacion

IDPs
registering
with aid
workers

Atty. Jerefe D. Tubigon – Bacang


Commission on Human Rights
Objectives
• Recognise the impact that humanitarian
emergencies has on existing and emerging
risks and vulnerabilities as well as capacities
• Understand basic concepts of protection in
emergencies
• Practice mainstreaming protection in other
sectors
Helping to restore the balance,
promoting respect for rights,
protecting the most vulnerable.

PROTECTION IN
EMERGENCIES
The right to life with dignity
 Emergencies change the power
balance and put people at risk.

 Pre-existing vulnerabilities and


patterns of discrimination also often
increase.
NATURAL ARMED
DISASTERS CONFLICT

PERSECUTION

HUMAN
RIGHTS
Protection can be seen as:
• An objective
-requires full and equal respect for human
rights
• A legal responsibility
-principally by State agents
• An activity
-because action must be taken to ensure
enjoyment of rights
PROTECTION ACTIVITIES

RESPONSIVE
REMEDIAL E NVIRONMENT
VIOLATION
ABUSE BUILDING

• Responsive - to prevent or stop violations of rights;


• Remedial – to ensure a remedy to (e.g. access to justice,
reparation or rehabilitation, restoring dignity, recuperation of health,
family tracing, livelihood support and coping mechanisms; or
• Environment-building – to promote respect for rights and the rule
of law.
• Lack of safety and security (e.g. rampant crime);
• Gender-based violence;
• Unequal access to assistance, basic goods and
services and discrimination in aid provision;
• Abuse, neglect and exploitation of children
• Family separation, particularly for children, older
persons, persons with disabilities and other individuals
who may rely on family support for their survival;
• Loss/destruction of personal documentation and
difficulties to replace it;
• Inadequate law enforcement mechanism and
restricted access to a fair and efficient justice system;
• Lack of effective feedback and complaint
mechanisms;
• Unequal access to employment and livelihood
opportunities;
• Forced relocation;
• Unsafe or involuntary return or resettlement of
persons displaced by disasters;
• Lack of property restitution and access to land.
What is “Protection” in a response?
• A specific technical sector

• Rights-based

• Aims at prevent/stopping patterns of


abuse

• Alleviating the effects of abuse

• Restoring dignity and creating an


environment where rights are respected
What is Protection
Mainstreaming?
• What is Mainstreaming?

• It’s not what we do (the product) but how we do it


(the process)

• Global Protection Cluster Definition:

• “The process of incorporating protection principles


and promoting meaningful access, safety and
dignity in humanitarian aid.”
• Examples from the field…?
How is Protection Mainstreaming
different from standalone Protection?
• Protection Mainstreaming is the
responsibility of
all humanitarian actors

• Protection work is undertaken by


protection specialists, has specific
protection objectives/professional standards
Key points

• It’s not what we do but


how we do it

• Requires a “protection lens”


to see the operational
environment

• Vulnerability and Capacity


Key points
• Vulnerability:
“the conditions determined by physical, social, economic,
and environmental factors or processes which increase
the susceptibility of an individual of community to the
impact of hazards and risks” (eg, age, gender, poverty
or location)
• Capacity:
“the conditions determined by physical, social, economic,
and environmental factors or processes which
decrease the susceptibility of an individual or
community to the impact of hazards or risks”
Key Messages
• Protection Mainstreaming is the process
of incorporating protection principles:
Avoid causing harm
Participation
Accountability
Promoting meaningful access

• Ensuring we respond in a way which


promotes safety and dignity
Key Messages
• We do it by understanding vulnerability (and
the factors that increase it)
• We do it by recognizing and supporting capacity
to respond to vulnerabilities and risks (the
factors that can decrease vulnerability)
• Protection should be mainstreamed through all
sectors and all phases of a programme/project
cycle
At your tables take a few minutes to identify 3
actions you could take or which may have
already been taken to address vulnerability
in your sectors:

Food Health
Water Shelter
Sanitation Education
Community-based approaches and
participation

Affected people
Participatory participate in
Assessments solutions to their
own problems
Human Rights-Based Approach: Concept

It is a process that integrates:

– Human Rights standards and principles and


instruments
derived from Universal Declaration of Human Rights

– Participation, empowerment

– Inclusive partnership
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
REFUGEE LAW
IDP GUIDING PRINCIPLES
HUMANITARIAN LAW
Needs-Based Rights-Based Approach
Approach

We do this because
We do this because we people have rights and we
are charitable and want are obligated to meet our
to help people in need responsibilities
Needs not fulfilled: Rights not respected,
protected or fulfilled:

People are dissatisfied A violation for which


there must be remedies
Needs-Based Rights-Based Approach
Approach

People are “rights-


holders” – active subjects
People are “fortunate” – who have entitlements
beneficiaries of the arising from the
kindness of others obligations of others
Human Rights-Based Approach?
How do
What
we do
do we
it?
do?

FRAMEWORK METHODOLOGICAL
OF ACTION TOOL FOR ACTION

LEGAL PRINCIPLES
Community Based Approaches:
Participatory Assessments

• Participatory Assessments and analyses focus on:


– Analysis of existing information
– Identification and analyses of:
• Protection risks and rights violations
• Immediate causes and root causes
• Community capacities and resources
• Capacity of duty bearer
• Gaps
• Solutions and priorities
Summary
• It’s not what we do (the product) but how we do it (the
process)
• It requires us to recognise potential vulnerabilities,
risks and existing capacities to strengthen the
protective environment in emergencies
• We can do this through working in a participatory way
with communities at all stages

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