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Mental Health & Wellbeing
A themed resource page from GISF that treats staff wellbeing as part of an organisation's duty of care. It collects guides, toolkits, papers, articles and tip sheets on stress, burnout, resilience, traumatic stress, mindfulness, psychological first aid and mental health and psychosocial support for aid workers. Security and HR staff in humanitarian and development NGOs use it to find guidance and tools.
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Managing Stress in Humanitarian Workers
Guidelines that help humanitarian organisations build policies and systems for staff care. They set out key principles and standards for staff psychosocial wellbeing across the deployment cycle, and apply to both national and international staff. HR teams and managers use them to review their staff care system and plan improvements. Available in 5 languages.
Start hereClassicKey manual or guideFree - 6.3C080
What's the Point of the Revolution if We Can't Dance?
A book based on the experiences of more than 100 women human rights activists around the world. It looks at how activists keep going over time, covering fear, hope, exhaustion, grief, pleasure, humour and spirituality, and practical problems such as lack of funding, conflict inside movements and burnout. Activists, movement groups and funders use it to talk about collective care. Free PDFs are available in 6 languages.
ClassicKey manual or guideFree - 11.2C147
The International Child Safeguarding Standards
A set of 4 standards that describe what an organisation needs in place to protect children from harm caused by its staff, activities, operations and partners. The standards cover policy, people, procedures and accountability, and list requirements under each. 5 guiding principles frame them, including shared responsibility and the best interests of the child. Organisations, donors and auditors use them to build and check safeguarding policies.
CurrentKey manual or guideFree - 11.2C150
Safeguarding & participatory grant-making: An essential guide for funders
A guide for funders on building safeguarding into participatory grant-making. It walks through planning, delivery and review, with the aim of protecting the community members who make funding decisions from harm. It includes a handout, Questions for decision makers to funders, which decision makers can use to ask whether a funder has planned for their safety. Foundation staff use it when designing or reviewing a participatory process.
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