- 27. Cash
- 28. 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
- 29. 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
- 30. Participation
- 31. 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
- 32. Quality and Accountability
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Definitions
- 3. CARE’s Humanitarian Accountability Framework (HAF)
- 4. Commitments on Humanitarian Quality and Accountability
- 5. Humanitarian Performance Targets
- 6. HAF Accountability System
- 7. Quality and Accountability (Q&A) Roles and Responsibilities
- 8. Q&A Checklist for COs
- 9. Q&A Resourcing
- 10. Q&A Technical Support
- 11. Annexes
- 33. PSEA
- 34. 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
- 35. Environment and Disasters
- 36. Policy Framework
- 37. EPP
- 38. Humanitarian Space
- 39. Civil Military Relations
- 40. 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
- 41. HIV
- 42. Information management
- 1. Role of information management in an emergency
- 2. Critical steps in information management
- 3. Emergency alerts
- 4. Situation reports (sitreps)
- 5. Internal information management at the Country Office level
- 6. Information management at CARE International level
- 7. Handling enquiries
- 8. Information support for media and fundraising work
- 9. Meeting management
- 10. External information sharing
- 11. Documentation and archival
- 12. Remote support for information management
- 13. Infrastructure requirements
- 14. Operations rooms
- 14. Operations rooms
- 15. Additional guidelines for non-presence operations
- 16. Annexes
- 17. Other resources
6.3.1 Benchmark 4: Participation
CARE has established systems that enable stakeholders to routinely input into our decision-making processes, including enabling stakeholders’ input into broader humanitarian policies and strategies, in addition to engagement on operational issues.
Who is mainly accountable in CARE?
National Directors, Secretary General, Country Directors, Programme Directors, Emergency Coordinators, Quality & Accountability Focal Points, Monitoring & Evaluation staff, CI Emergency Response Director.
What are the key references for this benchmark?
Sphere Common Standards 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6; HAP Benchmark 3; RCRC code Principle 6 and 7; CARE’s Programming Principles 1 and 3.
Indicators:
- CARE proactively identifies and works with representatives of the poorest and most marginalised people.
- Beneficiaries, or their representatives, participate in assessments, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and in decision-making to determine project activities throughout the lifecycle of the project.
- Beneficiaries and local communities are made aware of assessment, monitoring and evaluation findings.
- There is involvement of local government and partners in assessments, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
- Disaster response is built on local capacities, and emergency projects are designed to increase disaster response capacity.
CARE Emergency Toolkit links:
Chapter 30 Participation, Chapter 4 Assessment, Chapter 9 Monitoring and evaluation
Supporting tools:
Annex 30.1 ALNAP Participation in emergencies handbook, Annex 30.4 IASC Gender handbook for humanitarian action
