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Conflict, displacement and humanitarian crises can expose people to increased risks of violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect, exclusion and other forms of harm.
Wings of Aid & Peace (WAP) seeks to place protection, dignity and safety at the centre of its humanitarian action by integrating protection considerations across programmes and, where appropriate, supporting dedicated protection activities based on identified needs, technical capacity and safe referral arrangements.
Humanitarian assistance should help people without exposing them to additional harm.
People affected by crisis may experience different protection risks depending on their circumstances, environment and access to services and support.
Protection therefore requires more than responding after harm has occurred.
It also requires humanitarian organizations to understand risks, design safer programmes, reduce barriers to assistance, protect confidentiality, listen to communities and ensure that people can safely raise concerns.
WAP's Protection programme provides a framework for integrating these responsibilities across humanitarian action and, where appropriate, developing dedicated protection interventions according to assessed needs, technical capacity, available resources and approved programme design.
WAP seeks to approach protection through a combination of risk awareness, community participation, safe programming, appropriate referral and organizational accountability.
Our approach is guided by several priorities.
Protection is not limited to projects labelled as Protection.
WAP seeks to integrate relevant protection considerations across its humanitarian programmes.
This means asking practical questions throughout programme design and implementation:
Protection mainstreaming helps ensure that humanitarian assistance considers not only what is delivered, but also how it is delivered.
Depending on assessed needs, technical expertise, available resources, referral capacity and approved project design, WAP's Protection programme may include or support appropriate activities such as:
Communities possess important knowledge about local risks, coping strategies, social relationships and available sources of support.
WAP seeks to engage communities appropriately in understanding protection concerns and identifying locally relevant approaches.
Community participation may include:
Community-based protection should not transfer responsibilities for managing serious protection cases to people who lack the appropriate training, authority or support.
People affected by the same crisis may experience different risks and barriers.
Age, disability, displacement, family circumstances, social conditions and other contextual factors may influence how people access humanitarian assistance.
WAP seeks to identify actual barriers through assessment and consultation rather than assuming vulnerability based solely on group identity.
Where appropriate, programme design should seek to reduce barriers and support equitable, safe and dignified access.
Children can face heightened protection risks during conflict, displacement and humanitarian emergencies.
Where WAP programmes involve children, safeguarding and child-protection considerations should be integrated throughout programme design and implementation.
Depending on technical capacity and approved programme design, WAP may support appropriate preventive, awareness, community-based or referral activities related to child protection.
Specialized child-protection case management, assessment or other professional services should be undertaken only where appropriate technical expertise, procedures, supervision and referral systems are in place.
A lack of suitable learning materials may create additional barriers for crisis-affected learners.
Where identified as a programme need, WAP may support access to appropriate educational materials.
Selection and distribution should consider:
Materials should support—not substitute for—the wider educational environment required for meaningful learning.
Humanitarian crises may expose children and young people to increased protection risks.
Education programming can provide opportunities to identify concerns and connect learners or families with appropriate support, but education personnel should not be expected to perform specialized protection functions outside their competence
WAP seeks to integrate appropriate child-protection considerations and referral arrangements into relevant education programmes.
Education programming requires particularly strong safeguarding responsibilities because activities may involve children and young people.
WAP seeks to integrate safeguarding and PSEA requirements throughout relevant Education projects.
Personnel, volunteers and partners involved in education activities should understand applicable standards of conduct and reporting responsibilities.
Appropriate measures should be considered in areas such as:
Appropriate measures should be considered in areas such as:
Families, learners, teachers and communities possess important knowledge about the barriers affecting education and the solutions that may be appropriate locally.
WAP seeks to create meaningful opportunities for relevant community participation.
Participation may include:
Where children and young people participate, engagement should be age-appropriate, safe and consistent with safeguarding requirements.
Access to water, sanitation and hygiene can affect the safety, dignity and usability of learning environments.
Where relevant, WAP seeks to connect Education and WASH programming so that identified needs can be addressed more coherently.
Health conditions and barriers to appropriate health support can affect learning and participation.
Where relevant to identified needs and programme design, WAP seeks appropriate coordination between Education and Health interventions.
Education activities should not be used to provide clinical health services without appropriate technical arrangements.
Nutrition challenges can affect children's health, well-being and ability to participate in learning.
Where appropriate, WAP seeks to consider relevant connections between Education and Nutrition programming.
Any specialized nutrition intervention should remain subject to appropriate technical standards and programme arrangements.
Education can provide opportunities to strengthen respectful interaction, community participation and understanding where appropriate to programme objectives.
In conflict-affected environments, education programming should remain sensitive to local conflict dynamics and avoid reinforcing exclusion or social tensions.
Where appropriate, WAP may connect relevant Education activities with conflict-sensitive and social-cohesion approaches.
Education interventions should be designed and implemented with appropriate technical competence
WAP seeks to ensure that the scope of Education activities matches available expertise and programme capacity
Relevant technical considerations may include:
Where specialized expertise is required beyond WAP's internal capacity, appropriate technical collaboration should be considered.
Education programmes may involve personal information concerning children and families.
WAP seeks to collect only information necessary for legitimate programme purposes and protect it through appropriate confidentiality, access and data-management measures.
Particular care should be taken with:
Public communications should use appropriate consent and safeguarding procedures and should not expose children or families to unnecessary risk.
Effective education responses may require coordination with communities, relevant authorities, education actors, humanitarian organizations and other appropriate stakeholders.
WAP seeks responsible coordination where it can strengthen programme relevance, technical quality, referrals, continuity of learning or efficient use of resources.
Formal partnerships should be subject to appropriate organizational review.
Only approved relationships should appear publicly.
Target populations should be defined at project level according to verified education needs, programme objectives, access barriers and available capacity.
Projects may address the needs of crisis-affected learners and relevant communities where assessment demonstrates an appropriate programme need.
Targeting should use transparent criteria and avoid discrimination.
Education can provide continuity, protection and opportunity at times when crisis has disrupted many other aspects of life. WAP seeks to work responsibly with communities and relevant education actors to understand barriers, support appropriate learning opportunities and help create safer and more inclusive conditions for education.
