Call for Examples What s working in community-based protection?

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1 Call for Examples What s working in community-based protection? Thanks for your interest in submitting an example of what s working in community-based protection! This form cannot be saved. If you need to close the application and work on the case study at a later time, please save your entries in a word document and cut and paste at a later time into this PDF Form. Once you have completed the form please press the Submit Button below and the form will be sent to Jessica Lenz, Senior Program Manager-Protection at InterAction. If you have trouble with this form or would like to request the form in a word document, please contact Jessica Lenz at jlenz@interaction.org Thank you for taking the time to complete a case study on community-based protection mechanisms. Organization: Contact details: Name: Country of Operation: Phone: Information shared on this form will not be published without your explicit consent. Description of Program Context: Please explain any important background information (e.g. political dynamics, community divisions, restrictions on humanitarian access, etc.) and note the following characteristics of this context: Camp / out-of-camp / urban Rapid onset / protracted Natural disaster / conflict / other Affected Population Groups Included: Refugee / IDP / returnee / host community / stateless / other Call for Examples: community-based protection mechanisms p. 1 of 5

2 Description of the Community-Based Protection Mechanism: Please explain how the community protected itself, including for example: How and why did the community organise itself? How did it decide who to protect? What protective actions did it undertake and how? What were the defining elements of the community? Who controlled decision making and who had a voice? Who owned the decisions and who benefitted? Was the intervention inclusive of all groups of the community including age, gender and diversity? What was the impact of the community s protection mechanism(s) on persons who are often marginalized (e.g. sexual and gender minority groups)? How was decision making shared between men and women? Call for Examples: community-based protection mechanisms p. 2 of 5

3 Description of the role your agency played: Please explain how your agency went about identifying, mapping, assessing, and supporting community-based protection mechanism(s), including for example: How did you determine which community groups or structures to work with? What role (e.g. catalyst and facilitator, interlocutor, capacity builder, representation with authorities) did your agency play relative to the community? What inputs (e.g. financial or in-kind resources, information, training) did your agency make to support the community s protection activities? What other resources (e.g. capacities, skill sets, internal resources, methodologies, partnerships) were required to enable this CBP initiative? How did you adapt your work during your intervention with the community (e.g. to overcome constraining factors, build on enabling factors, ensure mutual learning)? What can we learn from your experience? Call for Examples: community-based protection mechanisms p. 3 of 5

4 Analysis of the impact of the community-based protection partnership: Please explain any lessons learned through this process, including, for example: How did you measure the impact your organization s work had on the overall protection outcome of the community? Did the work of your agency interfere with the communities actions? For example, were there also incidents were your intervention conflicted with/ discouraged the communities actions? Did you encounter harmful or unhelpful community practices or power structures? If so, what were they and how did you respond and/or try to address them? What factors constrained your actions or the community s actions (e.g. donor requirements, partner organizations, approaches of partner organizations, project planning requirements, political or conflict dynamics)? Call for Examples: community-based protection mechanisms p. 4 of 5

5 Supporting Change and a Better Response: Please explain in more detail whether using a community-based approach helped to: Change your organization s understanding of protection perspectives in this given context and whether priorities identified by affected populations were prioritized within the response/initiative. Point to new opportunities and ways of addressing protection needs as they are determined by the local perspective. Observe any difficulties/challenges in matching the specific local understanding and priorities with those of a more streamlined international and normative understanding of protection. Call for Examples: community-based protection mechanisms p. 5 of 5