Diversity, Inclusion and Intersectionality
Diversity, Inclusion and Intersectionality
The Humanitarian Impact Institute’s work on Diversity, Inclusion and Intersectionality is across all our service areas and all our sectors.
Diversity
Localisation
Inclusion
Intersectional
Gender
Disability
Cultural Change
Our Practice’s work is designed to achieve cultural change in humanitarian and development actors on these issues.
Our multi-disciplinary expertise helps forward-thinking organisations substantially advance their journeys to more inclusive, participatory, instersectional and localised humanitarian responses and development programming.
We recognise most organisations are on a journey with these topics. HII aims to help organisations from the start of their journey to a self sustaining state where the organisation finds it easy and natural to make inclusive decisions mindful of the unique power dynamics and potential exclusion caused by each decision.
Our experience on these topics suggest most organisation’s journey’s take the following form.
Evolution of Inclusion in Organisations
Progress on Quality Measures
These journeys can be tracked across quality indicators
Approaches
In modelling this methodology, HII aspires to be a leader in using:
An intersectional approach that recognises that no person is one dimensional. We seek to identify overlapping dimensions of marginalisation, discrimination and exclusion that combine gender, age, disability and other context-specific diversity factors to create new and more complex categories of marginalisation.
A holistic approach that recognises the need for mainstreaming and standalone/targeted actions across all sectors of humanitarian and development, including protection, sexual and reproductive health and rights, food security and nutrition, WASH and all other technical sectors.
A feminist approach that identifies who holds power and strategies to challenge and shift it; is collaborative at least and co-creative at best; goes beyond simple gender binaries and established hierarchies; and elevates emotions and wellbeing.
A localisation approach that aspires for communities to own, drive and validate all projects and programs that serve them; prioritises working in partnership with local actors and communities; recognises the centrality of local knowledge, the lived experience of diverse groups of affected people and local and community-based leadership, activism, volunteerism and networking.
Services
RESEARCH
MEAL
STRATEGY
Our Sectors
Humanitarian
HEALTH
EDUCATION
PROTECTION
DRR
BASIC NEEDS
Social Inclusion
Human Development
POVERTY REDUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY
INCLUSIVE ECONOMY
Peace & Security
OPEN SOCIETIES
PEACE BUILDING
SECURITY & BORDERS
Project Examples
Learning Review of Oxfam’s Partner-Led Ukraine Response involving primary data collection four countries (Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Poland) with 35 partners. The review was designed to identify lessons and best practices on how to better enable LHL, localisation and partner-led programming with a specific focus on power shifting.
Baseline Study in Central African Republic and South Sudan on survivor-led networks of CRSV survivors to increase their meaningful participation in local and national initiatives to end violence against women and girls.
Siobhán Foran
Siobhán is the Practice Lead for HII’s Diversity, Inclusion & Localisation Practice.
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