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Aid Worker Pocket Card - English (13.8Kb) - People in Aid: Code of Best Practice in the Management and Support of Aid Personnel (130.6Kb)
©Overseas Development Institute, London, 1997
Author: Sara Davidson
Development agency field staff confront unique challenges in their day to day work. Recognizing this, the People in Aid Code represents a three-fold commitment: to the quality and effectiveness of aid, to the effective management of aid personnel, and to the protection and well being of those who work under circumstances that are frequently difficult, dangerous and sometimes life-threatening.
The People in Aid Code complements those of SCHR and InterAction but is different in three ways. Firstly, it is intended for use by development as well as relief agencies. Secondly, it includes indicators against which achievement in implementing the Code can be measured by internal and external evaluators. Thirdly, the Code will undergo testing by a number of agencies over a period of up to three years and its effectiveness will be evaluated.
- Managing Stress in Humanitarian Workers: Guidelines for Good Practice (363Kb)
Antares Foundation, 2005
This first draft of the guidelines for good practice intends to help the agency and its staff to address stress within the organization and within themselves. - Burnout and vicarious traumatization and its prevention (67.8Kb)
- The Exhaustion Funnel: Aid work, Burnout and Lessons from Mindfulness (528.5Kb)
In my daily contact with people involved in aid, development and humanitarian work, I repeatedly come across signs of physical, mental, spiritual and emotional exhaustion. I find there is often shame around it, maybe sprinkled with “self-cynicism“. Many burnout without knowing it, there’s an urge to keep going, and a sense that our personal well-being and good mental health are not worth looking after. In the book Mindfulness. Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Prof. Mark Williams and Denny Penman discuss the idea of the ‘exhaustion funnel’ to describe how we are pulled into the dark pit of burnout when we fail to care for our own psychological/emotional needs.
[...] - Burnout: Why do people suffer, and Why do International Relief Workers suffer more than Domestic Response Workers and First Responders? (257.2Kb)
- Prevention of Professional Burnout in Care Workers (620.3Kb)
- People in Aid - Code of Conduct (130.6Kb)
- IFRC Managing Stress in the field - Spanish (519.3Kb)
- IFRC Managing Stress in the field - French (482.7Kb)
- IFRC Managing Stress in the field - English (586Kb)
- Antares Guidelines: Managing Stress in Humanitarian Workers (363Kb)
- Caring for others, caring for yourself (294.1Kb)
- Caring for Carers (581.6Kb)
Aid Worker Pocket Card - Spanish (48Kb) - Aid Worker Pocket Card - Portuguese (49Kb)
- Aid Worker Pocket Card - French (49.5Kb)
- Aid Worker Pocket Card - Arabic (119.3Kb)
