Humanitarian crises
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- Fact sheet
This resource sets out the safeguarding risks faced by older refugees in the Middle East and North Africa. It focuses on protection from harm and ensuring they have access to vital services. It also provides guidance on how organisations working…
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- Fact sheet
This resource outlines the safeguarding risks faced by refugees with physical disabilities. It provides guidance on how civil society organisations and humanitarian actors can adapt their safeguarding measures to prevent harm from occurring to…
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- Evidence digest
This evidence digest presents the contextually specific challenges of providing social assistance to displaced populations, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and irregular migrants. It highlights the complexities introduced by…
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- Fact sheet
This bitesize note clarifies the distinctions and overlaps between sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment and gender-based violence within the development and humanitarian sectors. It provides a concise overview to help practitioners…
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- Guidance document
This guidance document highlights practical examples of ensuring that women and girls with disabilities participate and benefit from programming, drawing from a content analysis of projects from across the work of Inclusive Futures between the…
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- Report
This report reviews existing technical guidance on ethical and equitable inclusion of marginalised groups in humanitarian health research. Commissioned by the International Rescue Committee, it identifies gaps in current research standards and…
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- Evidence/literature review, Report
This resource from the Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) helpdesk sets out available evidence from the humanitarian and development sector related to accountability processes in crises. It also explains the importance of…
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- Evidence digest
This evidence review explores the importance of prioritising the inclusion of marginalised groups in social assistance in contexts of recurrent shocks, climate and humanitarian crises, protracted conflict, and forced displacement. Crises often…
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- Report
Analysis of policy approaches to social protection has become detailed and sophisticated, but does not typically extend beyond the formal rights-based policy provision. The authors investigate how this can be extended to contextualise provision…
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- Report
This report presents the approach to the first-ever violence against children and youth surveys (VACS) conducted exclusively in a humanitarian setting in Uganda, in addition to providing an overview of the results of this novel survey, along with…
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- Case study
This case study is based on the findings of a survey looking at sexual health, reproductive rights and violence against children and youth. It outlines actions taken by humanitarian actors, based on the evidence produced by the Baobab’s Research…
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- Guidance document, Lessons from a programme, Tools and templates
The guidelines provide recommendations on how to conduct participatory research with people with disabilities. The guidelines are based on reflections, lessons learned, and examples of practices researched by the authors. These resources can be used…
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- Report
This report examines the intersections between gender equality, women’s economic empowerment and food security. It explores the following areas:links between gender equality, women’s economic empowerment and food insecurity and its effects on…
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- Guidance document
This interactive website explains how the social protection systems protect people against poverty, increased vulnerability, and social exclusion through a combination of social assistance, social insurance, labour market practices and social care…
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- Mapping, Tools and templates
This resource provides a catalogue of innovations taken to increase the inclusion of people with disability and older people in humanitarian aid. It is based on the Humanitarian Innovation Fund’s 2020 Gap analysis: the inclusion of people with…
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- Evidence/literature review, Report
This resource from the Knowledge for Development and (K4DD) Helpdesk presents evidence on the medium- and long-term economic, social, and development implications of large scale internally displaced populations and refugees on the host communities.…
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- Tools and templates
This toolkit shares guidance on how to implement participatory approach within research and innovation projects, for, with, and by people affected by crisis. It also sets out how to monitor levels of participation in research and innovation projects…
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- Evidence/literature review
This rapid literature review from the Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) programme summarises the key evidence on the impact of social inequalities and discrimination on vulnerability to crises. The review focuses on inequalities…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource from the Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) programme is a rapid literature review on lessons and promising practices from national-level experience with the development and implementation of legal and policy…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource from the Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) programme is a rapid literature review which summarises the available evidence on toolkits that assist the response by humanitarian and development agencies to financial…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource from the Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) programme is a literature review which details some of the key programmes implemented to improve the economic self-sufficiency of refugee women in the UK and other wealthy…