Minimum Standards for Protection Mainstreaming

Author(s)
Sutton, K., Searle, L. and Lubrano, P.
Publication language
English
Pages
119pp
Date published
01 Jan 2012
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Protection, human rights & security, Response and recovery

The Minimum Standards for Protection Mainstreaming are a set of international standards designed to provide practical assistance to humanitarian actors to mainstream protection in the assessment, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes, projects and activities. All humanitarian actors are expected to mainstream protection in their humanitarian assistance activities as a component of a broader commitment to quality and accountability in humanitarian response.


Protection mainstreaming refers to incorporating protection principles in humanitarian response.