Risk mapping can be particularly helpful to explore context-specific risks with affected community members to deepen humanitarian actors’ protection analysis and jointly design effective programs that achieve protection outcomes. Risk mapping can allow space for those affected by the risks to share a more nuanced description of the threat, vulnerabilities, and capacities per risk type. This insight provides a solid basis for strong protection analysis and helps to prioritize key risks affecting a community.
Focusing on the risk equation, JHAJA tackled what many humanitarian organizations find challenging—addressing the threat—in their work to reduce violence in Honduras. Their willingness to work with gang-affiliated members has allowed them to intervene in ways other organizations cannot.
WeWorld–GVC’s Community Protection Approach won First Place in InterAction’s 2020 Results-Based Protection Good Practice Contest.
UNICEF’s “Communities Care” project in Somalia is a good example of programming that both provides services to gender-based violence (GBV) survivors and simultaneously promotes social norm change to prevent or reduce the violence
As part of the broader momentum within the humanitarian community to improve protection analysis for better decision-making and risk reduction, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) are developing
a results-based protection analysis resource package of practical tools tailored to frontline staff, coordination actors, and those steering broader humanitarian strategies.
MindShift: A Collection of Examples that Promote Protection Outcomes, spotlights 13 case examples from different humanitarian organizations working across the world on protection