This guide provides standards and directions on how to carry out rapid needs assessment for Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Violence Prevention (VP) initiatives including child protection and sexual and gender-based violence.
In particular, this rapid assessment tool is designed to help gather data in an efficient and effective way to help inform integration of PSS and VP issues, as minimum standards, into the broader disaster management action plans in response to an emergency.
This advocacy report encourages making the prevention of interpersonal and self-directed violence a priority within the International Federation’s response to disasters. It highlights why and how interpersonal and self-directed violence during and after disasters is a predictable and preventable problem and the actions the International Federation and its partner agencies should take to have a more engaged role in addressing them.
Purpose This document is a resource for organisations and communities to help in the development, implementation and monitoring of concrete actions to prevent, reduce, mitigate and respond to interpersonal violence—physical, sexual, emotional and neglect. Overview The ten steps are: 1. Understand…
Purpose This document brings together three cross-cutting themes (violence prevention, beneficiary accountability and gender equality) that have emerged as consistent priorities within international operations into one cohesive approach that will assist programme teams to meet minimum standards, while also determining…
Purpose: This case study highlights how PMI adopts and integrate violence prevention in its services