Tool: Key standards and guidelines
Minimum standards for adolescents’ protection, education and human rights
Facilitators planning and leading activities with and for adolescents should understand and uphold minimum standards for adolescents’ protection, education and human rights. Include sessions on the following standards in trainings for facilitators, and monitor and support facilitators in adhering to these global guidelines in their work with adolescents.
Child protection
Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), 2012
Provides minimum standards for child protection work in humanitarian settings
Education
INEE Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery Handbook Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), 2024
19 standards to enhance the quality of educational preparedness, response and recovery in humanitarian settings
Gender-based violence
Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action: Reducing risk, promoting resilience and aiding recovery Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2015
Guidelines to assist humanitarian actors in humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence (GBV) across sectors
Humanitarian response
The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response Sphere Project, 2011
Minimum standards, principles and best practice across humanitarian response sectors
Psychosocial support
Inter-Agency Standing Committee Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2007
Guidelines to enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multisectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in emergencies
Highlights
Facilitators planning and leading activities with and for adolescents should understand and uphold minimum standards for adolescents’ protection, education and human rights. Include sessions on the following standards in trainings for facilitators, and monitor and support facilitators in adhering to these global guidelines in their work with adolescents.
