Improving the Safety of Civilians: A Protection Training Pack - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0855986166 ISBN 13: 9780855986162

Verlag: Oxfam GB, 2009

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Improving the Safety of Civilians is an innovative tool that strengthens the capacity of field workers to improve civilian safety through humanitarian programs. Designed for use in difficult and sensitive field situations, the pack draws from extensive experience in real protection crises.

Each pack consists of a comprehensive training manual and CD, containing four training modules and core exercises, and templates of all resources for adaptation, together with posters and activity cards for minimal preparation.

The materials are designed for use by experienced facilitators, who have some knowledge of protection issues, to train emergency response teams. The pack introduces the ideas discussed in Protection, also published by Oxfam, using modules and exercises that can be adapted to all levels of participant knowledge.

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Improving the Safety of Civilians

A Protection Training Pack

By Oxfam GB

Oxfam Publishing

Copyright © 2009 Oxfam GB
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-85598-616-2

Contents

Introduction, 7, 
Using this training pack, 8, 
Planning a workshop, 9, 
Outline of training modules, 11, 
Example agendas, 15, 
Opening the workshop, 
Pre-training questionnaire, 18, 
Inspirational quotes, 21, 
Inspirational quote cards, 23, 
Introducing the training, 27, 
Module 1 What is protection?, 
Session 1: What is protection?, 
Session 2: Tools for protecting civilians in conflict, 
Session 3: Who protects?, 
Session 4: Vulnerability analysis, 
Module 2 Planning a programme, 
Session 1: Protection analysis, 
Session 2: Gathering and managing information, 
Session 3: Risk analysis, 
Module 3 Mainstreaming protection, 
Session 1: Mainstreaming protection, 
Session 2: Options for mainstreaming protection, 
Session 3: What would you do?, 
Module 4 Programming for protection, 
Session 1: Options for protection programming, 
Session 2: Objective setting, 
Session 3: Indicators and monitoring, 
Core exercises, 
Closing the workshop, 

CHAPTER 1

What is protection?

This module

* looks at what 'protection' means

* introduces some of the concepts and tools used in protection work

Session 1 looks at what is included in protection, and at different types of action that humanitarian organisations can undertake to protect people.

Session 2 looks at how the law and other standards can be used in protection.

Session 3 identifies who are the main people and organisations involved in protection work, and their respective roles and responsibilities. It looks at the central role that communities take in protecting themselves and also emphasises why it is important for protection actors to co-ordinate and co-operate.

Session 4 helps participants understand more about vulnerability, introducing the idea of power analysis.

Session 1: What is protection?

This session begins with a simple role play followed by small group discussion and a presentation with visual aids.

Trainer's notes

To deliver this session you will need:

1 to brief your actors for the role play (ask two participants to act it out using the briefing provided)

2 the visual aids (provided on pages 34–7 and in colour at the back of the book)

3 a flip chart and pens

4 copies of Handout 1 – What is protection? (p. 33)

You will also need blu-tak to stick the visual aids to the wall.

Resource materials for trainers

* Handout 1: What is protection?

* H. Slim and A. Bonwick (2005) Protection: An ALNAP Guide for Humanitarian Agencies, London: Overseas Development Institute, Section 1.

Session plan

Begin with the role play. After the role play, use the visual aids provided, and tell participants that:

* Protection is about improving the safety of people, like the woman collecting water. There are two sides to protection – reducing the negative consequences of our actions, and proactively helping people stay safer. This workshop focuses on the latter.

* Humanitarian organisations help people stay safer by reducing risk.

* Risk exists when there is a threat, such as the threat of violence or exploitation, and people are vulnerable because, for example, they are female, are from a certain ethnic group, or because they have to leave their village to get water. The longer the time people are exposed to a threat the greater the risk – for example collecting water four times a day is riskier than collecting it twice a week.

There are three types of threats:

* Violence – deliberate killing, wounding, sexual violence, rape, torture, and the threat of any of these

* Coercion (forcing someone to do something against their will) – forced prostitution, sexual slavery, sexual exploitation, forced or compulsory labour, forced displacement or return, restriction of movement, prevention of return, forced recruitment, being forced to commit acts of violence against others

* Deliberate deprivation – destruction of homes, wells, and clinics; preventing access to land or markets; preventing delivery of relief supplies; deliberate discrimination in getting jobs, education, land, or services; illegal 'taxes' or tolls

NGOs try to improve the safety of people by doing one or more of:

* reducing the level of threat

* reducing the level of vulnerability

* reducing the amount of time exposed to the risk

Ask the participants to think about the role play and suggest ways that an organisation might try to protect the woman collecting water. Write up the suggestions on a flip chart. Explain that there are various actions an organisation might take to reduce the threat or reduce vulnerability:

To reduce the threat

* Advocacy: convincing those with power to protect people or getting others to put pressure on them to protect people

* Capacity-building: supporting the authorities to protect civilians

* Presence: using physical presence to deter attacks on civilians (can also reduce time exposed to the risk)

To reduce vulnerability

* Assistance: directly providing services or goods so that people can avoid threats (can also reduce time exposed to the risk)

* Voice: helping people to negotiate their own safety

* Information: providing impartial information to help people make informed decisions about their safety

You can write these six modes of action on a flip chart to form part of the talking wall, and keep referring back to it throughout the training. Pick an example of each mode of action from the participants' suggestions on the flip chart. At this point, and throughout the training, encourage participants to think about appropriateness and risks involved in each type of action.

In the next session we will look at how the law and other standards can be used in protection.

Role play briefing

Characters

* A woman collecting water (props: bucket or water container)

* A man with a gun (props: roll of paper or umbrella)

It is important that

1 the woman mentions how many times a day she has to collect water, as this illustrates how often people are exposed to risk.

2 the man (1) refuses to let her pass, (2) threatens to beat her, and (3) asks her to be his 'friend', as these three acts illustrate the main types of threat.

Suggested dialogue

Woman: Oh no, I have to collect water again, this is the fourth time today, but I must go because my family is desperate and the well in our village is very old and the water not good for drinking.

She meets the armed man.

Man: Stop, you can't come past here. This is our well.

Woman: But that is the well our village uses. It is the only place where we can get water. You must let me pass.

Man: Don't tell me what I must do. This is our well now, stop complaining or I will beat you.

Woman: Please let me pass, my daughter is sick and I need water for her. Please.

Man: Well, let's see, maybe if you come into my hut and you are very nice...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxfam GB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0855986166
• ISBN 13: 9780855986162
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Herausgeber: Gb Oxfam
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Anja's; service@anja-karge.de; ; Von-Gumppenberg-Str. 94; Pöttmes; 86554; Deutschland