- 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
4. Case study: Humanitarian space restrictions
Humanitarian space restrictions
In a complex emergency where CARE is working, the government places significant restrictions on humanitarian access to populations in need of assistance. Staff is faced with many challenges, including ‘administrative harassment’ such as flight bans, delays and denials in processing travel permits, and limitations on staff numbers. Humanitarian workers in this country have been subjected to threats from government officials, intimidation and arrests, physical and verbal abuse, and hijack at gunpoint.
The government has made a public statement promising ‘full commitment to free and unhindered access for the provision of humanitarian assistance to all persons in need’. Despite this, aid agencies continue to struggle to access humanitarian space. Several representatives of the NGO sector have had their representatives expelled for seemingly arbitrary reasons aimed to disrupt humanitarian activities. Operating in this environment requires careful negotiation at senior levels of government, and joint international advocacy and quiet diplomacy in coalition with other humanitarian agencies.
