Practical information
Authors
ETIENNE Agathe
FINEL Elodie
LENOIR Bérengère
Contributions
DIXON Catherine
GAYE Seydou
HOTTENTOT Elke
TORRECILLA Audrey
Validation Committee
SAUVAGE Emmanuel
Editor
DEYGAS Stéphanie
Handicap International
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This guide is aimed at any HI professional who has responsibility for developing, implementing or analysing Armed Violence Prevention activities. It is not to be regarded as a recipe book but more as a list of ingredients to use to ‘prepare’ the special relationship between HI professionals and local issues. If you have any queries about the operational strategy outlined in this guide, please do not hesitate to contact the Technical Advisers on Armed Violence Prevention.
AVP Armed Violence Prevention
AVR Armed Violence Reduction
CFP Community Focal Points
CFS Child-friendly Space
CHA Confirmed Hazardous Area
CIS Contamination Impact Survey
CN Concept note
EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal
ERW Explosive Remnants of War
HI Handicap International
HR Human Resources
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
IDP Internally displaced people
IEC Information Education Communication
IED Improvised Explosive Device
IM Information Management
IMAS International Mine Action Standards
IME Impact, Monitoring & Evaluation
IMSMA Information Management System for Mine Action
KAP Knowledge Attitudes and Practices
LRRD Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development
MAC Mine Action Centre
MBT Mine Ban Treaty
MEAL Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
NMAA National Mine Action Authority
NMAS National Mine Action Standards
NTS Non-Technical Survey
PIA Pre and Post Impact Assessment
PM Project manager
PSS Psychosocial support
PSSM Physical Security and Stockpile Management
QA Quality Assurance
QC Quality Control
QM Quality Management
RA Risk Awareness
RE Risk Education
SADDD Sex, Age and Disability Disaggregated Data
SALW Small Arms and Light Weapons
SHA Suspected Hazardous Area
SOPs Standard Operating Procedures
TA Technical Adviser
TS Technical Survey
UNMAS United Nations Mine Action Service
VA Victim Assistance
Armed Violence Reduction
- Geneva Declaration “Global Burden of Armed Violence”, Geneva, 2008projects or activities;
http://www.genevadeclaration.org/fileadmin/docs/Global-Burden-of-Armed-Violence-full-report.pdf - Geneva Declaration “Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015: Every Body Counts”, Geneva, 2015
http://www.genevadeclaration.org/measurability/global-burden-of-armed-violence/global-burden-of-armed-violence-2015.html - OECD policy paper “Armed Violence Reduction, Enabling Development”, Conflict and Fragility, 2009
https://www.oecd.org/dac/conflict-fragility-resilience/docs/armed%20violence%20reduction.pdf - OECD Publishing “Investing in Security, a global assessment of Armed Violence Reduction Initiative”, Conflict and Fragility, 2011
http://www.oecd.org/dac/conflict-fragility-resilience/docs/48927716.pdf - Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining Policy Brief “Mine Action support for Armed Violence Reduction”, Geneva, 2012 http://www.gichd.org/fileadmin/GICHD-resources/rec-documents/AVR-Policy-brief-Dec2012.pdf
- PAX report, Maya Brehm “Unacceptable risk: Use of explosive weapons in populated areas through the lens of three cases at the ICTY”, 2014
www.paxforpeace.nl/media/files/pax-rapport-unacceptable-risk.pdf
Standards
- International Mine Action Standards
http://www.mineactionstandards.org/standards/international-mine-action-standards-imas/imas-in-english/ - International Small Arms Control Standards http://www.smallarmsstandards.org/isacs/
- International Ammunition Technical Guidelines (2015 updated version)
https://www.un.org/disarmament/un-saferguard/guide-lines/
Legal framework
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf - The Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx
- The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml
- The Humanitarian Disability Charter
http://humanitariandisabilitycharter.org/ - The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Mine Ban Treaty)
http://www.icbl.org/en-gb/the-treaty/treaty-in-detail/treaty-text.aspx and its Maputo Action Plan
http://www.maputoreviewconference.org/fileadmin/APMBC-RC3/3RC-Maputo-action-plan-adopted-27Jun2014.pdf - Convention on Cluster Munitions
http://www.clusterconvention.org - Arms Trade Treaty
https://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/att/ - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Landmine Monitor, 2015
http://www.the-monitor.org/media/2152583/Landmine-Monitor-2015_finalpdf.pdf - Geneva declaration, 2006
http://www.genevadeclaration.org/fileadmin/docs/GD-Declaration-091020-EN.pdf - International Humanitarian Law
https://www.icrc.org/en/war-and-law - Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/INTRO/380?OpenDocument
Victim Assistance
- Victim Assistance in context of mines and explosive remnants of war, Policy Paper, Handicap International, 2014 http://www.hiproweb.org/uploads/tx_hidrtdocs/PP11VictimAssistance.pdf
- Factsheets: How to implement Victim Assistance obligations? Handicap International, 2013
http://www.hiproweb.org/uploads/tx_hidrtdocs/HI-FactSheets-BD_01.pdf
Transversal approaches
- Gender Policy, Handicap International, 2007
http://www.hiproweb.org/uploads/tx_hidrtdocs/PI02-GenderPolicy-EN.pdf
Gender and diversity approach
- Synthesis of the review of participatory approaches used on Handicap International’s programmes, Handicap International, 2015
http://www.hiproweb.org/uploads/tx_hidrtdocs/ReviewOfParticipatoryApproaches_PE03_Synthesis.pdf - Minimum Standards for Age and Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Action, HelpAge, International on behalf of the Age and Disability Consortium, 2016
http://www.hiproweb.org/uploads/tx_hidrtdocs/ADCAP-report-LowRes-finalMar16.pdf - Participation by Crisis-Affected Populations in Humanitarian Action: A Handbook for Practitioners, Overseas Development Institute, 2009
http://www.alnap.org/resource/5271 - Participatory Approaches, Methodological Briefs: Impact Evaluation 5, UNICEF, 2014 http://www.hiproweb.org/uploads/tx_hidrtdocs/Participatory_Approaches_ENG_UNICEF.pdf
