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New Oxfam Publication Improving the Safety of Civilians A Protection Training Pack Sophia Swithern and Rachel Hastie, Oxfam GB This training pack is intended to help humanitarian workers to improve the safety of civilians being subjected to violence, coercion, or deliberate deprivation. The activity sessions within the modules cover topics as diverse as international standards for civilian protection, objective setting, indicators and monitoring, humanitarian negotiation, co-ordination and alliance building, reducing the risk of sexual violence and advocacy for humanitarian protection. A selection of core exercises at the end of the book is designed to encourage interaction and create debate. Improving the Safety of Civilians outlines all activities, with detailed trainers’ notes, timings, resources needed, and handouts, feedback, and evaluation sheets. Colour cards and posters are included at the back of the book. An accompanying CD contains the full text of the manual including the cards and posters for users to print. The materials are designed for use by experienced facilitators, who have some knowledge of protection issues, to train emergency-response teams. Activities can be adapted for participants with different levels of knowledge. The pack introduces the ideas discussed in Protection: An ALNAP Guide for Humanitarian Agencies, also published by Oxfam, using modules and exercises that can be adapted to all levels of participant knowledge. Contents: Introduction Opening the workshop Module 1: What is protection? Module 2: Planning a programme Module 3: Mainstreaming protection Module 4: Programming for protection Core exercises Closing the workshop Sophia Swithern is Humanitarian and Conflict Policy Adviser at Oxfam GB and Rachel Hastie is Protection Adviser, Oxfam GB. Keywords: Humanitarianism, protection, conflict, violence, mainstreaming, training, toolkit, disasters, emergencies, advocacy, Oxfam. Available to download free online from: http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?K=9780855986162 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave