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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