Safeguarding the Vulnerable is at the Heart of Protection Mandates
Beginning in the mid-1990s, international and local NGOs, UN Agencies, the Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement and donors began a collaborative effort to learn from field experience about how humanitarian and development aid interacted with conflict, and how aid agencies had found options to avoid doing inadvertent harm. The “Local Capacities for Peace Project”, and the analytical framework that emerged from it, was led by the Collaborative for Development Action (CDA) and is commonly known as “Do No Harm”. A few months ago we highlighted the need to emphasise the “Do No Harm” approach to respond the humanitarian and protection crisis that Iraqis face today. The first “Do No Harm” workshop held by NCCI in Iraq was conducted in early 2004. Now, with the announced will of some actors to increase their presence, and with mounting political pressures on humanitarian actors, it is more important than ever to use such an analysis to keep the humanitarian imperative front and centre.
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Contributor:
Victor K. Mugarura
Published Date:
March 7, 2008
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