Participatory Assessment - Refworld

in Operations• Review rights violated: teams should identify immediateprotection needs and which rights have been violated orotherwise not met. For example, an insufficient number ofschools obstructs the right to education, and physicalassault at a food-distribution site violates the right tophysical integrity; Multifunctional teams should list the rights violated inthe first column of the Participatory Prioritization Reportform.345678• Analyse causes: teams should review the causes ofprotection risks as identified by the refugees, includingwhich actors may be responsible, interpersonal behaviourand group dynamics, as well as programme gaps andinadequately designed sectoral activities. Teams shouldanalyse trends in the refugees’ answers to identify recurringcauses for each subgroup (age and sex). It is also importantto analyse which causes result in the systematic exclusionof certain groups from protection and assistance and, inparticular, which ones are the result of age and genderinequalities or other forms of discrimination. Some causesmay lie in traditional community practices or ininstitutional biases; refugees and multifunctional teamsmust be prepared to look at these causes to eliminatediscrimination and associated protection risks. In the third column of the Participatory AssessmentPrioritization Form, teams should record the causes of theprotection risks.