- 1. Cash and Voucher Assistance
- 2. Advocacy
- 1. Role of advocacy in an emergency
- 2. Critical steps for advocacy
- 3. Approaches to advocacy
- 4. How advocacy fits in CARE’s emergency response
- 5. Rights-based frameworks for advocacy
- 6. Activating and coordinating advocacy in CARE
- 7. Issues identification and prioritisation
- 8. Criteria for deciding to engage in advocacy
- 9. Developing an advocacy strategy and taking action.
- 9.1 Different levels of planning
- 9.2 Key questions and strategy format
- 9.3 Problem analysis
- 9.4 Goal and objectives
- 9.5 Rationale for CARE’s engagement
- 9.6 Target audience
- 9.7 Identifying allies and opponents
- 9.8 Advocacy messages
- 9.9 Tools and actions
- 9.10 Opportunities and events
- 9.11 Human and financial resources
- 9.12 Risk management
- 9.13 Monitoring and evaluation
- 10. Advocacy in relation to non-presence emergency operations
- 11. Annexes
- 3. Conflict Sensitivity
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What to do: Response options
- 3. What not to do: Do no harm and other common mistakes
- 4. When and where to get specialist help
- 5. CARE’s capacity and experience
- 6. Annexes
- 7. Other resources
- 4. Participation
- 5. Protection
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Assessment checklist
- 3. What to do: Response options
- 4. What not to do: Do no harm and other common mistakes
- 5. When and where to get specialist help
- 6. CARE’s policy commitments
- 7. CARE’s capacity and experience
- 8. Annexes
- 9. Other resources
- 6. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Assessment checklist
- 3. What to do: Response options
- 4. What not to do: Do no harm and other common mistakes
- 5. When and where to get specialist help
- 6. CARE’s policy commitments
- 7. CARE’s capacity and experience
- 8. Annexes
- 9. Other resources
- 7. Environment and Disasters
- 8. Policy Framework
- 9. Emergency Preparedness Planning (EPP)
- 10. Humanitarian Space
- 11. Interacting with Armed Actors
- 12. Humanitarian Coordination
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 What humanitarian coordination is
- 1.2 Why humanitarian coordination is important
- 1.3 Types of humanitarian coordination mechanisms
- 1.4 UN-led humanitarian coordination mechanisms
- 1.4.1 Humanitarian reform
- 1.4.2 What the cluster system is
- 1.4.3 Cluster leads
- 1.4.4 Provider of last resort
- 1.4.5 SAGS and TWIGS
- 1.4.6 The role of NGOs in the cluster systems
- 1.4.7 Humanitarian financing and funding mechanisms
- 1.4.8 Common humanitarian services
- 1.4.9 Responsibilities of humanitarian common services providers
- 1.4.10 Global Emergency Directors’ Group
- 1.5 Host government coordination
- 1.6 NGO coordination
- 2. CARE’s policy
- 3. Applying the policy in practice
- 4. Annexes
- 5. Other resources
- 1. Introduction
- 13. HIV
Case study: Humanitarian space restrictions
Humanitarian space restrictions
CARE is working in a country experiencing a complex emergency. Although the country’s government made a public statement promising “full commitment to unhindered access for the provision of humanitarian assistance to all persons in need,” aid agencies face numerous challenges, such as flight bans, delays in processing or denials of travel permits, and limitations on staff numbers. Government officials have subjected humanitarian workers to threats, arrests and intimidation, physical and verbal abuse, and hijackings at gunpoint. The government has expelled representatives from several NGOs for seemingly arbitrary reasons, which NGOs have reason to believe are meant to disrupt humanitarian activities. Operating in this environment requires careful liaison with all levels of the government; advocacy at the local, national, and international levels; and working in coalition with other humanitarian agencies to achieve common goals.