6.2.1. Building Community resilience - Marta Pawlak, (Advisor on Community Based Protection & Sexual Violence, ICRC)

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Violence Against Healthcare

24 calificaciones

University of Geneva

Violence Against Healthcare

24 calificaciones

At the global level, there are many countries marked by violence affecting health care. The 'Health care in danger' project aims to establish practical measures and recommendations that can be implemented on the ground by policy-makers, humanitarian organizations and health professionals. In view of the multiplicity of actors and latitudes concerned, it is essential to be able to make available the tools needed to make informed decisions, guide behaviour in high-risk areas and provide everyone the means to create and optimize the dialogue between humanitarian professionals and health on the one hand and relevant authorities or other armed actors. This course covers various topics such as ethics, rights and responsibilities of the staff of health and pre-hospital personnel, issues related to international law and humanitarian law, international human rights, caregivers and patient safety as well as the role of communities to address and reduce violence against health care.

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Module 6: Members of the civil society: communities, National Societies, Religious Leaders, Health organizations and others

The purpose of this module is to highlight and understand the role civil society has in the medical mission. Civil society includes those who are actors themselves in the medical mission, as well as those who protect and promote access to health care. This module will look at how Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, communities, medical associations and religious circles have the ability to strengthen the provision of health care and to influence relevant parties in showing respect for the medical mission. The module will allow learners to understand the bigger picture in terms of actors involved and their role in the concept of “health care in danger”.

6.2.1. Building Community resilience - Marta Pawlak, (Advisor on Community Based Protection & Sexual Violence, ICRC)4:18

6.2.2 Encouraging Community to advocate on the respect and the protection of health care - Marta Pawlak, (Advisor on Community Based Protection & Sexual Violence, ICRC)10:42

Conoce a los instructores

Angela Gussing
Regional Director for the Americas
International Committee of the Red Cross
Beat Stoll
Dr
PD, Coordinator of the Master of Science in Global Health, University of Geneva
Esperanza Martinez
Dr, Head of Health
International Committee of the Red Cross
Alexander Breitegger
Legal Adviser
International Committee of the Red Cross
Frederik Siem
Senior Adviser for Health Care in Danger
Norwegian Red Cross (NorCross)
Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin
Dr, Medical Advisor Health Care in Danger Project
International Committee of the Red Cross
Jamie Williamson
Head of Unit, Relations with Arms Carriers
International Committee of the Red Cross
Luigi Fratini
Head of Prevention Cell Unit, Law & Policy department
International Committee of the Red Cross

[MUSIC]

Good morning to all.

My name is Marta Pawlak and I work at the International Committee of the Red Cross

as the advisor on Community Based Protection.

In this lesson, we are going to discuss

how we can strengthen the resilience of the communities and

more specifically how we can help them to better access health services.

And how communities can generate a better respect for the healthcare mission.

So in order to start, we're going to first try to define,

what are community-based protections?

So first of all, this is an approach, an approach that aims to strengthen

the resilience of the communities, by reducing their exposure to risk,

and by mitigating their harmful coping strategies.

The ICRC adopts of all victim approach however,

we cannot see a community as a block.

In the community, we have of course men, women, children, elderly,

people with disability and all of them are affected differently by the conflict.

So in this approach what is extremely important

is to also recognize the specific capacities of the communities.

The main component of her approach is the participation of the affected

population or the communities where we are designing a workshop.

We are spending the entire day with a group of people,

as I said before with ensuring that there are women, men in the group,

elderly, children, youth and people with disabilities.

And we are organizing through participatory exercises,

a day where we are willing to understand how

the community is affected by the conflicts.

And how they have designed the coping strategies which is extremely

an important moment.

Because here we can identify which coping strategies could

be reinforced and which one are harmful and for

which we could also propose with the community, an alternative solution.

And at the end, we are asking the community how they want to be supported,

how they wish to be supported.

The main components of this approach is of course to engage

directly with the community because we recognize that it is the communities.

The people who are affected by the conflict that are expert of their

situation.

They know much better than us humanitarian workers that are coming in

a given place for a given time.

They are the front liners,

they are the one who are living directly the situation on a daily basis.

So that is why it is crucial to give them the floor and

this platform where they can express themselves and share with us, their main

problems, how they deal with it, and how they would like to be supported.

The second very important component is to recognize that the communities are actors.

They are directly participating and

they can play an essential role in ensuring their self protection.

So that is why as I said before, we are trying to identify their coping strategy,

so that we build a humanitarian response already on existing strategies.

And as I said, we would like to reinforce those that are positive and

we would like to propose alternative for those who are harmful.

All in all, what we want through the community based protection approach

is to preserve these dignity of people, to give them the choice and

to make them fully parts of the humanitarian response.

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