Growing the Sheltering Tree: Protecting Rights through Humanitarian Action, Programmes and Practices Gathered from the Field

The Growing the Sheltering Tree Project includes a book, containing programmes and practices gathered from the field, and this interactive website.

The IASC Reference Group on Humanitarian Action and Human Rights was especially interested in helping humanitarians work more effectively in environments where civilians were suffering because of violations of international humanitarian, human rights, and/or refugee law.

Recognising that people working in zones of conflict or under oppressive regimes had already developed many innovative methods and programmes to prevent or mitigate abuses, it was decided to identify and share these practices in the hope that they could be adapted for use by humanitarian colleagues also working in difficult circumstances.