CrossCutting Thematic Issues

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Cross-Cutting Thematic Issues
The Consolidated Appeal Process
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Thematic Issues Special Vulnerabilities

• Gender, Internally Displaced Persons,
• Staff Security, Human Rights
• HIV-infected

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Mainstreaming Gender

• Recommendations
• Examine differential impacts by gender
• Identify clearly vulnerability of beneficiaries
• Disaggregate data by gender and age
• Use gender-sensitive indicators
• Include women as key actors
• Ensure consultation of women by women

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Key Questions on Gender

• Have women been consulted during the preparation
  of programmes?
• Are indicators sensitive to gender?
• Have disaggregated data been collected in
  relation to women?
• Are the special needs of women recognised in
  projects for health, education,
  income-generation,etc.?
• Has the IASC Policy on Gender been disseminated
  by the Country Team?

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Internally Displaced Persons

• Recommendations
• Include description of IDPs numbers, conditions,
  primary needs, opportunities, and long-term
  outlook
• Outline protection, monitoring, and advocacy
  responsibilities
• Include strategies to prevent and prepare for
  internal displacement
• Increase project focus on return, resettlement,
  reintegration and/ or community and economic
  development

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IDP Recommendations (2)

• Identify local and national protection capacity
• Describe creating a secure environment for IDPs
• Encourage participation of OHCHR (Human Rights)
• Involve the World Bank in addressing durable
  solutions

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Key Questions on IDPs (1)

• Are IDPs discussed in key sections of the Appeal?
• Is there serious analysis of durable solutions?
• Is adequate data available or being collected?
• Are relevant phases of displacement discussed and
  protection assured during all phases?

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Key Questions on IDPs (2)

• Do programs targeting IDPs concur with the
  Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement?
• Have IDPs been consulted?
• Is capacity building for government and NGOs
  planned?
• How is the humanitarian community advocating for
  access to IDPs?

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Staff Security

• The Consolidated Appeal should describe the
  overall security management system and needs,
  including
• staffing requirements
• equipment needs
• training
• coordination with other actors
• inter-agency funding arrangements

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Key questions on Security

• Is the security management system described in
  detail?
• Are funding arrangements and lines of
  responsibility well-defined and understood?
• Is appropriate security training available for
  all humanitarian workers?

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Human Rights

• Human rights standards in international law
• Civil and political rights
• Economic, social and cultural rights
• Rights of the child
• Rights of women
• Rights not to be discriminated against
• Right to development

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Humanitarian action can serve to

• Protect human rights
• Promote human rights
• either DIRECTLY or
• INDIRECTLY
• but
• Humanitarian action can also
• Compromise human rights

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Key Questions on Human Rights (1)

• Does the humanitarian community have sufficient
  understanding of the interface with Human Rights?
• Who are the main Human Rights actors present?
• Are these actors integrated in CAP activities?
• Are local data and analysis on Human Rights
  available? If not, how might they be obtained?
• Are project activities evaluated in terms of
  their impact for protection and promotion of
  human rights?
• When might a humanitarian project compromise
  human rights? (and vice versa)

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Key Questions on Human Rights (2)

• What is an appropriate human rights protection
  project for inclusion in CAP? (Identify
  potentially inappropriate project areas.)
• How could the humanitarian programme serve to
  promote and protect human rights in the long
  term?
• Are specific human rights projects sufficiently
  linked to the humanitarian agenda?
• Have the correct appealing and implementing
  agencies and arrangements been identified?

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HIV / AIDS

• HIV / AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease that
  causes a direct socio-economic effect.
• A strategy to reduce transmission must take into
  account local culture and sexual behavior.
• Determinants of transmission in a complex
  emergency include
• presence of armies
• blood transfusions
• camp environments

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Key Questions on HIV / AIDS

• Have the determinants that impact HIV
  transmission been identified?
• Have measures to reduce transmission of HIV among
  specific groups been identified?
• Are links to country or regional UNAIDS offices
  established?
• Is the strategy to assess and reduce the impact
  of HIV transmission in the complex emergency
  described?

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other concerns...