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Defining Protection Concepts, Practices, Frameworks Objectives • • • • Set out a common definition of protection Review diverse understandings of what protection is in practice Elaborate on how protection activities are carried out Review frameworks for protective humanitarian action What is protection? Our common definition All activities aimed at ensuring respect for the rights of the individual in accordance with the letter and the spirit of relevant bodies of law, including international human rights, humanitarian, and refugee law. Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Groupwork and Plenary Discussion In your groups: Identify protection concerns in the regions where you work • List them on a flip chart • You have 20 min! • How is protection done? • • Rights and Community-based: securing respect for and protection of human rights and ensuring empowerment, participation and partnership Age, gender and diversity: promoting equality and non discrimination Rights-based Approach • • • Based on rights, in respect of relevant bodies of law, including international law Contributes to furthering the realization/ fulfillment of rights Strengthens the capacities of rightsholders to claim their rights, and of dutybearers to meet their obligations Community-Based Approach • • • Ensuring that women, men, girls and boys of all ages and backgrounds are engaged as active partners Recognizing resilience, capacities and resources Building on communities’ capacities and strategies to protect themselves Age, Gender and Diversity “A philosophy of always looking at possible needs of groups or individuals in a population” Age • • Age refers to the different stages in one’s life cycle Children, adolescents, adults and older persons are exposed to different risks and have different protection needs Gender • • • Gender refers to the socially constructed roles of women, girls, men and boys Gender roles are learned, changeable over time, and variable across cultures Gender equality refers to the equal enjoyment of their rights, responsibilities and opportunities Diversity • Diversity refers to different values, attitudes, cultural perspectives, beliefs, ethnic background, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, health, social status, skill and other specific personal characteristics Activity: Participatory Approach Population • : Girls Boys Diversity Protection Concern Cause Capacity in the Community Protection Objective (concrete action) PROTECTION… …IS ALL ABOUT RIGHTS!