Integrating protection, gender, age and disabilities in FSLC assessments

6th March 2014Juba

Integrating protection, gender, age and disabilities in FSLC assessments

• The training cum workshop was held on 3-4 March, 2014

• It was attended by over 25 participants from 16 FSLC partners

• The output of the exercise was to get an overview of how protection, age, gender and disabilities matter in food security and livelihoods; and then provide suggestions to assessment team for consideration

Common Emerging Themes

8 common themes were identified as relevant for integration of protection, age, gender and disabilities FSLC assessments Demography Community dynamicsConflict analysisVulnerability analysisCoping mechanismDo No HarmDo Some GoodTeam composition and engagement

FSLC assessments

• FSLC has three modalities1. Minimum humanitarian access – Initial Rapid

Needs Assessment 2. Some humanitarian access – Emergency Food

Security Assessment3. With humanitarian access – Food Security

Monitoring System

Recommendations for IRNA

• IRNA is a standard 17 page tool• Partners have only a few hours on ground to

conduct IRNA• Partners need to ensure that the information is

accurate and numbers are not inflated; and that recommendations are realistic

• To integrate protection, gender, age and disabilities a few minimum steps can be taken by FSLC

Common emerging themes for IRNACommon themes Protection Gender and Age Disabilities

Demography Get broad/big estimates of percentage of population breakdown and households headed by gender and age

Get broad/big estimates of percentage of people with impairment

Community dynamics

Get broad understanding of power and relational dynamics and ethnic groups dynamics

Get understanding on how various households headed by gender and age are affected

Same as gender and age

Conflict analysis

Do No Harm Safety /distance issues for providing assistance and making sure conflict analysis and community dynamics are taken into account in the recommendation for response

Common emerging themes for EFSA and FSMSCommon emerging themes

Protection mainstreaming Gender and Age Disability

Demography In case of KII – record the sex and age of the key informants

Age of the Household Heads Composition of Household members by age

˃5 years; 5 -17years; 18 – 40 years; 40 – 55years; ˂55years

People in the households with impairment

Community dynamics

Assess power and relational dynamics including returnee willingness to see which groups are willing and which groups are not willing to return.

Get a picture of the ethnic groups and dynamics

Assess gender and generational dynamics through cross tabulation of demographic group breakdown and the findings.

Assess discriminatory patterns/tendencies if any

Conflict analysis Action Point: Need a couple of guiding questions to assess at community level

Which gender is most affected by conflict and how?

How has conflict aggravated disability/impairment?

Common emerging themes

Protection mainstreaming Gender and Age Disability

Vulnerability analysis

Assess exclusion/invisibility through community and household consultations

Make sure sample is representative and inclusive for both community and HH levels.

Cross tabulation of data for comparison an analysis level

Who is responsible for income generation and decision making?

In agriculture and other livelihood/productive what are the roles of men and women of different ages?

Who is responsible for income generation and decision making?

Coping mechanisms

Probe into protection issues arising from negative coping mechanisms

Consumption of food by women, girls, boys and men of all ages.

Special needs for Pregnant and Lactating Women

FCS of PwD and special nutritional needs

Do no harm Safety /distance issues Sensitive topics related ti

GBV, cattle camps

Identifying the informal social safety net to ensure its maintained

Do some good Ensuring safety Availability and Access issues due to gender and age Availability and access to WATSAN/markets/service

Availability and Access issues due to disability including mobility/assistive devices

Availability and access to WATSAN/markets/services

Team composition and framing questions

There are females, males and if possible people with knowledge and expertise on key issues like disabilities, protection. Language/translation barriers should be minimized

Conclusion

• A few specific suggestions have been made in the questionnaires

• Cross references/tabulations at analysis level on different themes should be done

• Participation of key focal points in analysis of data for proper cross tabulation

• Sharing of contacts of protection referral agencies and disability groups in case assessment groups find systemic problems

Way forward

• Suggestions to be discussed with the assessment coordinator

• At present it’s a ‘wish list’ and so after the discussion with the most important elements will be agreed with the assessment team for integration

• All FSLC partners are encouraged to integrates the recommendations into their organizational assessments.