PILLAR 4

Protection and Diversity Inclusion

The pillar represents a comprehensive approach to safeguarding the rights and well-being of all individuals, with a deliberate focus on the most acute forms of harm: Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Child Protection (CP) issues. This pillar goes beyond basic services to embed principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into every aspect of protection work, ensuring that interventions are not only effective but also culturally sensitive, accessible, and nondiscriminatory.

Core Goal

To safeguard the rights and well-being of all individuals by providing a comprehensive approach to protection, with a deliberate focus on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Child Protection (CP), and the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), explicitly addressing climate-induced vulnerabilities and risks.

Sub-Key Activities:

These activities are structured to provide holistic and inclusive support.

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Services:

Survivor-Centered Case Management: Providing a comprehensive package of support, including medical care, psychosocial support, legal aid, and safe shelter. This is done confidentially and with a focus on the survivor’s needs, o with an emphasis on integrating climate risk assessments and GBV risk mitigation measures into the design and operation of all safe spaces and protection services, ensuring they are located in areas resilient to climate shocks and provide safe access to water/sanitation facilities.

Gender Transformation Training for Men: Conducting targeted training for men and boys, both in and out of schools. These sessions challenge harmful gender norms, promote positive masculinity, and teach non-violent communication and conflict resolution skills, o with an expansion to explicitly address the links between climate stress, resource scarcity, and heightened risks of GBV. Promote positive coping mechanisms and non-violent conflict resolution in climate-affected households and communities.

Self-Protection Training for Women and Girls: Offering courses for women and girls on physical and psychological self-defense. These trainings are designed to build confidence, enhance awareness of potential threats, and provide practical skills to protect themselves from violence, with an enhancement to incorporate climate-specific safety strategies, such as safe routes during climate-induced displacement, securing resources in climate-affected areas, and understanding heightened risks in IDP settings.

Risk Mitigation: Integrating GBV risk reduction measures into all programs, such as ensuring safe access to water points, latrines, and food distribution sites.

Child Protection (CP) Services:

Case Management for Children: Providing specialized care for children who have experienced or are at risk of violence, exploitation, abuse, or neglect. This includes family tracing and reunification for unaccompanied and separated children, with an integration of climate vulnerability assessments into child protection case management to identify children at heightened risk due to climate impacts (e.g., those displaced, food insecure, or engaged in child labor due to climate-related livelihood loss). Provide tailored support packages.

Child-Friendly Spaces: Creating safe and supervised environments where children can play, learn, and receive psychosocial support to aid their recovery and resilience.

Community-Based Protection: Empowering local committees, including young people, to identify, report, and respond to CP concerns at the community level, including empowering community-based protection committees to identify, report, and respond to climate induced child protection concerns, including family tracing and reunification for unaccompanied children displaced by climate events.

Diversity and Inclusion:

Intersectional Analysis: Systematically examining how different forms of discrimination (e.g., gender, disability, age, and ethnicity) intersect to increase vulnerability to GBV and CP risks, including conducting intersectional climate vulnerability assessments to understand how climate change disproportionately affects different marginalized groups (e.g., women with disabilities, elderly displaced persons, specific minority clans) and adapt protection services accordingly.

Accessible Programming: Adapting protection services to meet the unique needs of diverse groups, such as providing services in sign language, ensuring physical accessibility for people with disabilities, and offering materials in various languages.

Meaningful Participation: Ensuring that women, girls, children, and people from diverse backgrounds are actively involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of all protection programs.

Objectives

The objectives are to build a safe, equitable, and inclusive environment.

To Reduce and Prevent Harm:

To significantly decrease the incidence of GBV and all forms of violence, abuse, and exploitation against children. The training components directly contribute to this by addressing the root causes of violence and empowering potential victims.

To Ensure Access to Quality, Inclusive Services:

To guarantee that all survivors of GBV and children at risk have immediate, confidential, and culturally appropriate access to protection services, without discrimination.

To Strengthen Protective Systems:

To enhance the capacity of families, communities, and formal institutions to effectively prevent and respond to protection risks. The trainings for men and women serve as a critical tool for this objective.

To Promote Gender and Social Equity:

address the root causes of GBV and CP violations by challenging discriminatory social norms and promoting a culture of gender equality and inclusion.

Milestones:

Milestones are specific, measurable achievements that demonstrate progress.

Service Delivery Milestones:

Establish a specific number of safe spaces that offer integrated GBV and CP services in priority areas.
Achieve a quantifiable increase in the number of GBV survivors and children at risk receiving comprehensive case management and psychosocial support.
5 safe spaces established or upgraded by 2026, with documented climate risk mitigation features and a measurable reduction in reported GBV incidents in their vicinity (e.g., 15%).
A 20% increase in children at risk due to climate impacts receiving comprehensive case management and psychosocial support by 2027.

Training Milestones:

Train a specific number of men and boys in and out of schools on gender transformation and non-violent communication.
Train a specific number of women and girls on selfprotection and safety strategies.
Achieve a measurable increase in community awareness of GBV and CP issues, as demonstrated by pre- and posttraining surveys.
3,000 men and boys trained by 2027, with documented changes in attitudes towards gender equality and reduced reported instances of gender-based violence in their communities, as per post-training surveys.
3,000 women and girls trained by 2027, with a measurable increase in their perceived safety and ability to navigate climate-related protection risks, as demonstrated by selfreported confidence levels.

Policy and Systemic Milestones:

Adopt a national or organizational policy that explicitly addresses both GBV and CP, mandating an intersectional approach to service delivery.
Establish a functioning Protection Cluster/Working Group with dedicated subgroups for GBV and CP.
A comprehensive intersectional climate vulnerability assessment integrated into TTI's annual program planning cycle by 2026, leading to documented adaptations in at least 3 protection programs to better serve diverse climate-vulnerable groups.

Community and Social Change Milestones:

Form a specific number of community-based protection committees that include diverse members and are actively engaged in protection activities.
Document evidence of men and boys' participation in GBV prevention programs and a change in their attitudes towards gender equality.
5 community-based protection committees actively engaged in identifying and responding to climate-induced child protection concerns by 2026, with documented cases of successful family tracing and reunification.