PRIORITIZATION RRP Working Definition Based on evidencebased needs

PRIORITIZATION

RRP Working Definition Based on evidence-based needs assessments, categorize financial requirements within a criticality framework with measurable results, within an overall strategic framework.

Begin with the end in mind December 2013: Headline The UN Refugee Agency along with more than 100 UN agencies and NGOs (RRP 6 partners) appeal for xxxx dollars to respond to more than 3. 5 million Syrians hosted in neighbouring countries in 2014. The humanitarian organizations say that of this amount, xxxxx USD is for life-saving, most critical and urgent refugee needs, and pleads with donors and the public to urgently contribute needed resources. XXX USD needed to strengthen host communities and preserve protection space.

How? Three steps: Based on the sector planning (objectives, outputs, targets, geographic locations), the SWG will undertake the following steps: 1. 2. 3. Tailor prioritization criteria to sector-specific prioritization criteria Sort outputs and target populations within each output according to the agreed prioritization criteria Prioritize financial requirements. If possible, include entirety of output to one category.

Prioritization Criteria Most critical Lack of (physical, social, medical) intervention leads to a life-threatening situation or serious imminent harm Critical Lack of (physical, social, medical) intervention leads to serious deterioration in wellbeing and/or increased vulnerability Less critical Lack of (physical, social, medical) intervention leads to increased dependency and limited capacity for increased resilience Essential to directly preserving the protection space for refugees, including through offsetting a serious deterioration in host community well-being Essential to ensuring access to protected status, access to basic rights and preventing imminent harm Essential to improving the protection space for refugees, including through preventing a deterioration in host-community well-being Essential to promoting access to rights, safeguarding well-being and building up resilience Building national capacity to maintain/improve the protection space Emergency Sphere Standards OR Below sector established standards for refugee Sphere standards OR comply with sector established standards Above Sphere standards OR above sector established standards Critical to building longer-term and sustainable resilience and capacities; strengthening civil society structures

Roles • • Sector Coordinator Sector working group partner agency / participant

Prioritization: Governance and Accountabilities and Decision Making HIGH COMMISSIONER Regional Refugee Coordinator/Bureau Director Final decisions made in consultation with respective levels of UN agencies and NGOs UNHCR Representative Inter-Sector Coordination Group SWG Protection SWG WASH SWG Public Health SWG Shelter SWG Education Endorse or change prioritization between countries, sectors and output Final and regional decision making SWG Food Security SWG NFI Endorse or change prioritization between sectors, objectives and outputs Through a peer review process, endorse or change between and within sectors Prioritise between sector objectives, outputs, populations

Tips of the trade Simplicity. Keep a strategic, high-level focus on the objectives and outputs Before discussing financials, agree on output priorities as a group. Diminishing return on investment when focusing on decimals Everything in RRP 6 is an important humanitarian intervention. The prioritization process helps to categorize, and does not diminish the importance of the activity.

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