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Self Report 2017

The self-report on WHS Commitments below is organized according to the 24 transformations of the Agenda for Humanity. It is based on commitments pledged at the time of report submission. Click on the 'Expand' symbol to expand each section and read the reporting inputs by transformation.

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1C
Remain engaged and invest in stability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trocaire will advocate with the Irish Government as a UN and EU Member State on the prevention and resolution of conflict.
  • Advocacy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    Every Member State has a responsibility to review their role and priorities towards preventing and ending conflict. There is simply no other way. Conflict only promotes inequality, creating massive wealth for a few and enormous hardship and suffering for millions.

  • Achievements at a glance

    Ongoing

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Based on our advocacy engagement with the Irish Government and subsequent action taken at EU and UN level

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑1C - Remain engaged and invest in stability

1D
Develop solutions with and for people

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trocaire will promote equal rights and responsibilities of men and women and continue its work with the Irish Government in promoting Security Council Resolution 1325 and Ireland's Second National Action Plan, advocating for equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts for the promotion of peace and security.
  • Advocacy
  • Political Leadership to Prevent and End Conflicts

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    Via our work with the Irish Government as a partner and a donor and a champion of Sec Res 1325.

    Trocaire is an active member of the Oversight Group for Ireland's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and an active Member of the Irish Consortium on GBV and a member of the Refugee and Migrants Coalition that works with refugees in Ireland and within Europe.

  • Achievements at a glance

    - Post-WHS update to the Oversight Group to capture the great contribution of Ireland and particularly the Irish President at the Summit.
    - Strong advocacy on ensuring the components of the Irish National Action Plan are incorporated into domestic plans of government departments tasked with supporting migrants and refugees in Ireland.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Ongoing

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑1D - Develop solutions with and for people

2B
Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trocaire will actively promote humanitarian principles in its work and ensure that its humanitarian activities and those of its partners have the aim of making people safer, preserving their dignity and reducing vulnerabilities by building the skills of staff according to their duties in areas such as protection, international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
  • Advocacy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    We need to increase awareness across the organisation on principled humanitarian action and how to balance views and tensions in this area.

  • Achievements at a glance

    A Humanitarian Learning Platform has been set up which can be accessed by every member of staff. The platform includes general and detailed information and accessible training modules on humanitarian principles and humanitarian action.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Progress will be assessed under the humanitarian outcome of the strategic plan with regular reporting systems in place as well as more fluid conversations and deeper understanding among staff and partners on the humanitarian principles.

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑2B - Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions

2D
Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trócaire will implement the IASC GBV Guidelines by 2018 and incorporate the guidelines into all protection training modules.
  • Policy
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Trocaire will integrate gender and HIV responses to deliver humanitarian programmes that address women's vulnerability to GBV and HIV.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Trocaire will maintain and enhance its support to protection and protection mainstreaming in its humanitarian programming to protect women and girls, boys and men from sexual abuse and exploitation in humanitarian crises situations.
  • Operational
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Trocaire will work with partners on the protection of women and girls in emergencies, including support for women and girls who have experienced sexual violence, abuse or exploitation.
  • Partnership
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and refugee law, where applicable.
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity
  • Fully comply with humanitarian policies, frameworks and legally binding documents related to gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights.
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    Elevate attention and understanding in programming to protect women and girls.

  • Achievements at a glance

    Protection work accelerating to intensive programming and broader mainstreaming.

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑2D - Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability

2E
Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to promote and enhance respect for international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and refugee law, where applicable.
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    This commitment reinforced our organisational committeemen to human rights.

  • Achievements at a glance

    Ongoing

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    As part of the strategic priorities of the new strategic plan.

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑2E - Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity

3A
Reduce and address displacement

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • Trociare commits to advocating for the protection of refugees and migrants as well as the responsibilities of EU Member States to recognise and fulfil commitments and obligations regarding refugee quotas, and the rights of refugees and asylum seekers to access safe, transparent and dignified services and support.


  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Ongoing

3B
Address the vulnerabilities of migrants and provide more regular and lawful opportunities for migration

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility

  • Trociare commits to advocating for the protection of refugees and migrants as well as the responsibilities of EU Member States to recognise and fulfil commitments and obligations regarding refugee quotas, and the rights of refugees and asylum seekers to access safe, transparent and dignified services and support.


  • Advocacy
  • Leave No One Behind

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Ongoing

3D
Empower and protect women and girls

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trocaire will apply the IASC and /or ECHO gender and age markers to 100% of partner humanitarian funding allocations.
  • Financial
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Trocaire will increase investment and support to national and local partners to ensure that longer-term programming incorporates gender equality analysis and concrete steps to empower women and girls.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Trocaire will prioritise the equal participation of women and girls to inform solutions that protect and respond to their specific needs.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Trociare supports partners with technically skilled and experienced staff to deliver programmes that fully incorporate the protection of women and girls in emergencies and adhere to international standards.
  • Operational
  • Leave No One Behind

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Empower Women and Girls as change agents and leaders, including by increasing support for local women's groups to participate meaningfully in humanitarian action.
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Ensure that humanitarian programming is gender responsive.
  • Leave No One Behind
  • Fully comply with humanitarian policies, frameworks and legally binding documents related to gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's rights.
  • Uphold the Norms that Safeguard Humanity Leave No One Behind

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    We wanted to prioritise the protection of women and girls and broaden women's empowerment in our work.

  • Achievements at a glance

    Protection programming and protection mainstreaming work is on-going, resourced and staffed. Research with key partners in Lebanon and DRC is started and extensive consultation and engagement with other actors in the sector are happening.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Staffing, funding and researching plans fulfilled and work progressing by the end of the first quarter in 2017.

  • Challenges faced in implementation

    Funding and staffing and time to work with partners - more time required than funding available.

  • Next step to advance implementation in 2017

    - Programming progressed with partners.
    - Increased partnership and strengthened capacities of partners and colleagues at all levels.

  • If you had one message for the annual report on what is most needed to advance the transformation 'Empower and protect women and girls', what would it be

    End conflict and accelerate efforts to prosecute perpetrators of sexual violence. The work of millions can only be effective if women feel that security, dignity and respect are their rights and that sexual violence is not something that can be undone or forgotten. Address impunity.

  • Cross cutting issues

    ☑Accountability to affected people ☑ Gender

  • Specific initiatives

    ☑Charter for Change

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑3D - Empower and protect women and girls

4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trocaire is a signatory to the Charter for Change which commits it to implement the 8 point Charter by May 2018.
  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Trocaire commits to increase its utilisation of cash transfers as an effective humanitarian tool and commits to using or facilitating use of cash wherever feasible and appropriate in humanitarian response.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Trocaire commits to strengthen its engagement and advocacy work with partners and networks on the rights of crisis-affected communities to influence duty bearers to address the structural issues that underlie humanitarian crises.
  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • Trócaire is a signatory to the Inclusion Charter to deliver impartial and accountable humanitarian assistance that responds to vulnerability in all its forms, and reaches the most marginalised people (including children, youth, older people, people with disabilities, ethnic groups and others marginalised due to their social status).


  • Policy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Trocaire supports national partners to strengthen in-country engagement in humanitarian action.
  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Trocaire will advocate for respect for the rights of communities affected by crises and hold duty bearers to account for the structural issues that underlie crises, where this does not present risks to communities or to partners.
  • Advocacy
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Trocaire will strengthen and improve its partnerships with national organisations in programming and delivering principled and coordinated humanitarian assistance.  
  • Partnership
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Trocaire will uphold the highest ethical and professional standards of accountability to the people it serves by seeking feedback on the level of satisfaction with assistance provided from women and men annually.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Trócaire will work closely with partners in its commitment to adopt, use and monitor the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) to improve coherence in standards to improve quality, accountability, effectiveness and efficiency in humanitarian response.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Commit to increase investment in building community resilience as a critical first line of response, with the full and effective participation of women.
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Commit to ensure regional and global humanitarian assistance for natural disasters complements national and local efforts.
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    The above commitments reflect the values of the organisation and the objectives of our humanitarian work as outlined in the organisation's new strategic plan (2016-20). We are working on influencing our systems organizationally to ensure the commitments of the Charter for Change are realized - it takes a long time so we can indicate that the process is ongoing.

  • Achievements at a glance

    - CHS assessment is ongoing through 2017.
    - Partnership and localisation research ongoing with Groupe URD. The output will contribute to discussion in the humanitarian sector on how localisation can work to increase the speed, efficiency and transparency of humanitarian assistance.

  • Challenges faced in implementation

    Slower than expected - organisation shifts and the need for cultural change take time.

  • If you had one message for the annual report on what is most needed to advance the transformation 'Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems', what would it be

    International organisations have to work with local organisations as partners, building systems and capacities and increasing sustainability to ensure development happens, driven by local people as the agents of change.

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑4A - Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems

4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trocaire will improve and strengthen systematic collection, analysis and use of data disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant factors when developing, implementing and monitoring disaster risk reduction and management programs.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
  • Trocaire will support country programmes and partners to invest in risk analysis and emergency preparedness work and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people, by supporting communities to design and implement appropriate risk reduction strategies, including ensuring adequate resources for risk mitigation.
  • Operational
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    As a key component of our work, disaster risk reduction is a necessity to assist partners and communities to be crisis-ready.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Ongoing

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑4B - Anticipate, do not wait, for crises

4C
Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
  • Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    Programme integration is happening in each country we work in, though less so in those where active conflict is restrictive and our support to partners is limited to humanitarian action alone.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    We are measuring progress via the strategic plan which commits to integration, to bridging the humanitarian-development divide.

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑4C - Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides

5A
Invest in local capacities

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trocaire works with partners to advocate for more efficient, inclusive and streamlined funding mechanisms that promote stronger partnerships and increased direct access of local and national front-line responding NGOs to humanitarian funding.
  • Advocacy
  • Invest in Humanity

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    Since the organisation was established in 1973, partnership underpinned by subsidiarity has been the only approach employed by Trocaire.

  • Achievements at a glance

    Extending our partnership approaches to ensure our humanitarian action is based on sustainable partnership and capacity building, and investing in local systems and mechanisms, to ensure appropriate programming is a key commitment for Trocaire under our new strategic plan. To assist the organisation in deepening our understanding of how our partnerships work in different settings, we are working with Groupe URD to study our work, our approaches and hear from our partners how we can do better.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Via research phases and action on recommendations.

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑5A - Invest in local capacities

5B
Invest according to risk

Core Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Core Responsibility
  • Commit to invest in risk management, preparedness and crisis prevention capacity to build the resilience of vulnerable and affected people.
  • Invest in Humanity

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    Trocaire has a core belief to protect people and support them as appropriately as possible to recover from shocks in crises and rebuild their lives.

  • Achievements at a glance

    Ongoing

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Via the organisational scorecard, based on the strategic plan.

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑5B - Invest according to risk

5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency

Individual Commitment

  • Commitment
  • Commitment Type
  • Core Responsibility
  • Trocaire commits to improve transparency on the full cost of humanitarian action, including the resources it transfers to its members.
  • Financial
  • Invest in Humanity

  • What led your organization to make the commitment?

    Commitment to CHS and commitment to the Charter for Change and ongoing improvements within the organisation to ensure complete accountability and transparency with our supporters, donors and programme participants.

  • How is your organization assessing progress

    Via organisational scorecard, various initiatives to promote transparency and via our ongoing implementation of the CHS and our Charter for Change commitments.

  • Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations

    ☑5E - Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency