Funded by
Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
Background
The concrete and proactive integration of Protection outcomes in DP actions is crucial, although still often overlooked in preparedness efforts. It entails how DP actions can (and should) contribute to the protection of the affected populations in a collective effort across all sectors and actors, DP for Protection.
The integration of protection into DP aims to ensure a comprehensive framework to better respond and restore the safety, wellbeing, and dignity of all affected individuals.
The meaningful integration of Protection in DP ensures an improved understanding of the vulnerabilities and capacities of different affected groups, the effective and timely identification of hazards and threats, the definition of necessary tailored early actions to better respond to specific protection threats, the reinforcement of social cohesion and social safety networks before, during and in the aftermath of a disaster, and the promotion of a protection-sensitive, gender and age appropriate approach.
This assignment focuses supporting DG ECHO to develop a shared understanding of why it is important to integrate protection into disaster preparedness and how it can be simply and effectively achieved.
Specific objectives
- To clarify the concept of DP for Protection, both internally and externally, based on review of policies and guidelines, and interviews with the relevant actors to learn how they approach this topic;
- Analyse DG ECHO-funded projects with a DP for Protection component to identify best practices and lessons learnt, and provide concrete recommendations for future actions;
- To develop an engagement matrix with protection sectoral approaches that can be considered in DP actions;
- To provide recommendations on how to strengthen disability inclusion/gender mainstreaming in DP by approaching it with an intersectional lens;
- To provide recommendations on how protection can be better integrated into shock-responsive social protection systems, in particular the social care pillar, as well as into support to disaster law development.
Credit photo : © Laurent Saillard
The INSPIRE+ Consortium is made up of Development Initiatives1, IECAH, ODI, FAIREPROD and Groupe URD. It provides the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) with support in developing its policies via research, training, workshops and the dissemination of findings.
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