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📢 New Social Protection Paper and Blog released! CCD and members from the Ukraine Cash Consortium - Mercy Corps, Norwegian Refugee Council and People in Need have released a paper on Alignment Options for Humanitarian Cash with the Ukrainian Social Protection System. The discussion paper (authored by Clara Decamps, Social Protection Advisor of the CCD Network and Louisa Lippi, Social Protection Advisor (consultant) for UCC) builds on the Social Protection workshop and presents humanitarian organisations with programme design options for humanitarian cash programming to better align with and complement the existing cash benefits offered by social protection system in Ukraine. The paper is accompanied by a summary tool highlighting the alignment options for each lifecycle stage. Want a quick overview? Clara Decamps has written a blog introducing these concepts and the paper. 👇 The paper and its summary aim to be live documents continuously updated according to new humanitarian and social protection developments. Read the Blog and papers here! https://bit.ly/44HAvYQ #Humanitarian #SocialProtection #Recovery #IDP 

📣 Announcing UNITAR support to the Social Cohesion Consortium in the #DRC funded by the European Union. Last month marked the onset of UNITAR Division for Peace support to the Social Cohesion Consortium in Ituri and North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Consortium, comprised of the Norwegian Refugee Council, International Alert, Search for Common Ground and #JusticePlus leads the project “Contribution to strengthening social cohesion and stabilization in Ituri and North Kivu provinces”, in efforts to towards reinforcing capacities of the state authorities, the creation and reaffirmation of the channels of exchange between the public and governmental services and the community, and finally with communities, in order to improve everyone's roles and strengthen the links between communities and public services. The project uses a holistic approach, which involves putting in place different systems and strategies to address the numerous causes and consequences of a system of conflict cycles. Within this scope, UNITAR services will include training and learning expertise as well as methodological support to contribute to the Consortium’s capacities towards capturing the processes and approaches used to prevent and address conflict cycles and to help capitalise on the project’s successes. Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5-FXQuN #StayTuned for interesting updates. #CapacityBuilding #Peacebuilding #TrainingAndLearning #CommunityEngagement

The JOFA Project works across diverse contexts and countries. Perhaps the most challenging are refugee and conflict-affected settings. With a focus on prevention and support for community-based structures, we successfully managed to adapt our programming to such challenging contexts. Technical approaches such as TeamUp and Parenting without Violence were crucial to this success. Read more in JOFA’s new THEMATIC REVIEW: Child protection programming with refugees and in conflict-affected settings.   Download it now! https://bit.ly/3XQEoc0   #JoiningForcesforAfrica #JOFA #JoiningForcesForAllChildren

🗺 Around the world, #refugees are displaced for longer and longer periods of time.   This raises two big questions: How can they be better included in the national service systems of the countries that host them? And how can the burden of that inclusion be shared more evenly between different actors?   As situations of forced displacement grow more protracted, the classic 'division of labor' between humanitarian relief and longer-term development assistance has become difficult to uphold. In many cases, it just doesn't work that way anymore.   So the international community has vowed to change how it responds to forced displacement. The new vision is that all relevant stakeholders – humanitarians, development experts, host country representatives – should collaborate to respond to the immediate needs of refugees while also working together to strengthen their self-reliance and resilience longer term. This new model is sometimes called the Nexus approach.   One of the key organizations that has endorsed the Nexus agenda is UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. And because that commitment demands new ways of working, UNHCR is currently in a transition phase: it is adjusting to the new approach, but it also still strives to deliver life-saving aid in acute emergencies.   ❓ How has that change been going?   For the past 4+ years, we (together with our colleagues at ISDC - International Security and Development Center) accompanied UNHCR to find out how the organization cooperates with development actors in different contexts, to what extent that has been working, and what this has meant for the lives of refugees.   The final results of our evaluation – which happened in two phases – are now out and available.   👉 Read the latest report: https://lnkd.in/eVECCnpF   👉 Learn more about the project: https://lnkd.in/esKSh64f   ✒ Project team: Julian M. Lehmann, Julia Steets, Marie Wagner + colleagues from ISDC #unhcr #humanitarianaid #developmentcooperation #nexus #monitoringandevaluation

Together with our partners, we embarked on a commitment to implement adaptive management principles within our Re:BUiLD program. From the onset, we acknowledged that, while adaptive management presents significant gains, using this approach can be more challenging than delivering a standard humanitarian or development program. Humanitarian crises are increasingly complex. Just like most humanitarian and development actors, we face challenges in finding clear solutions and pathways to serve the most vulnerable communities. Those involved in addressing the protracted and complex crises must demonstrate creativity, adaptability, and be supported by frameworks that foster efficient and impactful responses. We are delighted to share what we have learned from two years of working in an adaptive way to support economic self-reliance of urban refugees and vulnerable residents in Kampala, Uganda, and Nairobi, Kenya. Our publication in collaboration with the Center for Global Development (CGD) provides a summary of existing adaptive management literature and shares lessons learned from the first two years of implementation of our program. I invite you to read through our practical recommendations for implementers and donors on how to effectively embrace these principles and incorporate them into their practices. We are grateful to the authors, CGD, and the Re:BUiLD team for providing valuable feedback throughout this process. Thank you IKEA Foundation for supporting the pursuit of an adaptive management approach in refugee programming. You can download the Adaptive Management in Refugee Programming paper here: https://bit.ly/3XQgI7K #ReBUiLDProgram #RefugeeLivelihoods #development  #refugees  #AdaptiveManagement  #IKEAFoundation #CenterForGlobalDevelopment #IRC #ReBUiLD

Solutions to internal displacement are within reach! Check out the latest addition to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)'s Global Repository of Good Practices, bringing together examples of successful and promising initiatives addressing internal displacement in different ways around the world, including through better policies, data, support to IDPs and preventative measures. To see the full repository with dozens of documented initiatives: https://lnkd.in/drEYrHNz