Policy, statement or guidance document that commits the Member to the inclusion and representation of those who are vulnerable and those who are affected by the intersecting drivers of marginalisation and exclusion, including not restricted to race, religion, ethnicity, indigeneity, disability, age, displacement, caste, gender, gender identity, sexuality, sexual orientation, poverty, class and socio-economic status.

Guidance

Your policy, statement or guidance document could include: an outline of the principles underpinning your organisation’s approaches to inclusion; and clarification of your organisation’s understanding of who/which groups are marginalised and excluded; and an outline of the procedures or practices required such as: good contextual analysis to understand the intersecting drivers, explicit reference to inclusion and systems of exclusion in design templates and appraisal/selection templates and processes, and the allocation of resources to initiatives with a primary focus on the inclusion and representation of vulnerable, marginalised and excluded people.

Design or planning frameworks, tools, templates that require or approaches that consistently show the consideration of the needs, rights and barriers to the inclusion of those who are vulnerable and those who are affected by marginalisation and exclusion in context-specific ways.

Guidance

Your approaches could include: undertaking good contextual and stakeholder analysis so you can understand the different barriers to inclusion faced by different groups of vulnerable and marginalised people in context-specific ways; and investing resources in and creating opportunities for those who are vulnerable or marginalised to fully contribute to the design and planning of initiatives that affect them. Strategies to achieve this could include: proactively seeking out those from vulnerable or marginalised groups within a community and conducting discussions/focus groups/interviews at times and places that enable their participation; setting explicit targets of consultation with these groups; engaging local people who live within communities to engage with primary stakeholders; ensuring any necessary materials or processes are conducted in local language and take into account structural, cultural or gender barriers such as isolation, privacy, timing etc.

Your design or planning framework, tools and templates could include: explicit sub sections or prompts in the design document template including a requirement for some primary stakeholders to be from vulnerable or marginalised groups; a design appraisal tool or set of criteria that requires an assessment of the adequacy of contextual analysis, the role of primary stakeholders in contextual analysis and the degree to which vulnerable and marginalised people have fully contributed to the design and planning of initiatives that affect them.

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Monitoring and evaluation framework, tools, templates that require or approaches which consistently show evidence of the assessment of progress in addressing the needs, rights and inclusion of those who are vulnerable and those who are affected by marginalisation and exclusion in context-specific ways.

Guidance

Your monitoring and evaluation approaches could include: an explicit requirement to assess progress relating to vulnerable and marginalised groups during monitoring and field visits and in progress reporting. Helpful prompts could include consideration of: how vulnerable, marginalised and excluded people have participated and what strategies have been used to address their needs, rights and inclusion. Evaluation terms of reference could include: analysis of whether the needs, rights and inclusion of vulnerable, marginalised and excluded people have been met and the barriers and enablers to doing so.

Your monitoring and evaluation framework, tools and templates could include: an articulation of expected outputs and outcomes and indicators that explicitly relate to the needs, rights and inclusion of vulnerable, marginalised and excluded groups.

Design or planning frameworks, tools, templates which require or approaches that consistently show the consideration of the potential for unintended harm and strategies to mitigate the risk of harm.

Guidance

Potential risks for unintended harm to primary stakeholders could include: exposing women to cultural or religious negative views if initiatives requires them to undertake new roles, contamination of drinking water through new agricultural practices or construction, construction of schools near busy roads or other hazards.

Your approaches could include: good contextual analysis to understand potential risks to primary stakeholders; risk analysis with an explicit focus on potential harm to primary stakeholders; consideration of these risks during monitoring and field visits.

Design or planning frameworks, tools or templates could include: explicit sub-sections or prompts in the design document template including: a requirement for consideration of potential risks to primary stakeholders; a design appraisal tool or set of criteria that requires an assessment of potential risks.