Reflecting IPPF’s duty of care, external good practice and humanitarian standards, and as a component of the SPRINT 3 extension process, a recommendation has been made to strengthen the pastoral care of IPPF’s MA teams, incorporating both staff and volunteers. This recognises that many MA first responders are themselves affected by the disaster or crisis to which the organisation is responding. There are two related operational recommendations arising:
- Development of a pastoral care strategy for MA team leaders/management to follow and implement.
- Roll out / implementation of this pastoral care strategy as and when new crises occur.
- Desired Outcomes and Outputs:
IPPF is looking for external support to support this work. The desired outcomes and outputs are understood to include:
Outcomes: -
- MA staff and volunteers are ready to respond to disasters and the MAs and their management are ready to support them in this.
- There is consistency across the MAs with the pastoral care in disasters provided for staff and volunteers
- The pastoral care provided for MA staff and volunteers reflects humanitarian standards and good practice
- MAs understand how to budget for and build in pastoral care in disasters as part of their resource mobilisation and grant management processes
Outputs:
- Workplan for consultancy timeframe and deadlines
- A framework and associated tools are developed for senior management of MAs to use to ensure effective pastoral care of staff and volunteers in disasters.
While this assignment is funded and focused on SPRINT 3 priority countries, the intent is to create outputs and tools that can be used across the IPPF Federation in other countries and regions as best practice.
Full terms of reference - please see document below.
