PIM in Practice

The below examples reflect how various organisations and individual practitioners have used the PIM Conceptual Framework to create structure and embed principles into daily protection information management activities for quality protection outcomes. Click here to watch the PIM in Practice Launch (24 March 2021).

Developing Stronger Data Sharing Agreements

Regional Information Management Specialist, James Norris, explains how the Danish Refugee Council has used the PIM Principles to develop stronger and more detailed data sharing agreements in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Yemen.

Embedding PIM in a Counter-Trafficking in Emergencies IM Guide

IOM Counter-Trafficking in Emergencies Information Management Officer, Benedetta Cordaro, describes how she used the PIM Framework to develop IOM’s Counter-Trafficking in Emergencies Information Management Guide.

Click here to access the Counter-Trafficking in Emergencies Information Management Guide.

Use of an Open-source Platform for Analysis of Focus Group Discussions

Protection Cluster Information Management Specialist, Iñigo Ballester, describes how the Data Entry and Exploratory Platform (DEEP) was used in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique to facilitate rapid collaborative analysis of information from multi-sectoral focus group discussions.

Developing a Guidance Note on Safe and Ethical GBV Indicators

Senior Inter-Agency GBVIMS Coordinator for Lebanon, Dana Dib, explains how the GBVIMS Steering Committee used discussions around the PIM Training and the PIM Framework to develop a Guidance Note on Drafting Safe and Ethical GBV Indicators.

Click here to access the Guidance Note on Safe and Ethical GBV Indicators.

Creating Inclusive Protection Monitoring and Protection Needs Assessment Guides

Migration and Displacement Protection Specialist, Laura Giani, describes how she used the PIM Framework to develop Humanity and Inclusion’s guidelines for inclusive protection monitoring and inclusive protection needs assessments.

Designing a Protection Monitoring System using the PIM Process

Data Policy Officer in UNHCR’s Global Data Service, Rachelle Cloutier explains how she used the PIM Process to design a Protection Monitoring System.

Recruiting and Training Protection Staff using PIM

Floriane Echegut and Vicky Goodban, from IOM’s Protection Unit in Afghanistan, describe how the they use the PIM Principles and PIM Matrix in the recruitment and training of IOM Afghanistan protection teams.

Developing Information Management Strategies

Information Management Specialist, Anne Marie Sarr Turmine, explains how she uses the PIM Framework to develop Information Management strategies during deployments for the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility.

Developing a Protection Monitoring System in Iraq

Iraq Protection Cluster Coordinator, Claudia Nicoletti, and Protection Cluster Co-coordinator, Yannick Creoff explain how the Protection Cluster’s Protection Monitoring System has been developed in line with PIM Principles and the PIM process.

Identifying and Understanding Challenges in a Protection Monitoring System

Data Policy Officer in UNHCR’s Global Data Service, Rachelle Cloutier explains how she used the PIM Matrix to identify and understand challenges in a Protection Monitoring System.

Developing a Community-Based Protection Monitoring System

UNHCR Protection Officer, Tin Wun Andrew Mok, explains how UNHCR’s community-based protection monitoring system in Kachin and northern Shan States in Myanmar reflects the PIM  Principles and the PIM Process.

PIM Principles in the Mali Protection Cluster Protection Monitoring System

Dominique Reinecke is Protection Monitoring Officer for the Mali Protection Cluster. She explains the Mali Protection Cluster’s Protection Monitoring System, which reveals how this protection monitoring system is consistent with many elements of the PIM Framework.

Training Protection Staff on Information Management

Data Policy Officer in UNHCR’s Global Data Service, Rachelle Cloutier explains how she used the PIM Conceptual Framework to train Protection staff on Information Management.

Strengthening Organisational Competencies & Capacities in PIM

Regional Information Management Specialist, James Norris, describes how the Danish Refugee Council in the Middle East is building its organisational capacities using the PIM Framework so that information management across all program sectors is safe, responsible, and rights-based.

Protecting Beneficiary Data in a Digital Age of Humanitarian Responses

Regional Protection Advisor for the World Food Programme (WFP), Fausto Aarya De Santis, explains how the PIM Initiative and the PIM Framework have improved his understanding of data protection risks and enhanced his advice on responsible information management in his role with WFP.

Using the PIM Principles in Trainings with Sectoral Staff

Data Policy Officer in UNHCR’s Global Data Service, Rachelle Cloutier explains how she used the PIM Principles in trainings with sectoral staff.

Developing a Durable Solutions IM System

UNHCR Protection Officer, Tin Wun Andrew Mok, explains how PIM is reflected in UNHCR’s durable solutions assessments and analysis in Kachin and northern Shan States in Myanmar.

Building a Fit-For-Purpose Protection Monitoring System

Data Policy Officer in UNHCR’s Global Data Service, Rachelle Cloutier explains how she used the “Assessing the Information Landscape” step of the PIM Process to support the development of a protection monitoring system.

Using PIM in IOM’s DTM and Partners Toolkit

Click on the video to watch a clip from the PIM webinar from January 2021 where IOM’s Daunia Pavone and Simone Holladay explain how the DTM and Partners Toolkit reflects elements of the PIM Framework.

Click here to download the pdf version of the presentation, and here for a summary with key PIM highlights.

Using PIM in the Needs Identification and Analysis Framework (NIAF) 

Click on the video to watch a clip from the PIM webinar from January 2021 where Shannon Hayes and Daunia Pavone explain how the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR) Needs Identification and Analysis Framework (NIAF) reflects elements of the PIM Framework.

Click here to download the pdf version of the presentation, and here for a summary with key PIM highlights.

Using PIM to develop a Regional Protection Monitoring System “P21”

Click on the video to watch a clip from the PIM webinar from January 2021 where West Africa Regional Protection Working Group co-coordinators Frederic Baele, Patrice Dossou Ahouanso, and Lauryne Mukulu explain how the Regional Protection Monitoring System (‘Project 21’) reflects elements of the PIM Framework.

Click here to download a pdf version of the presentation, and here for a summary with key PIM highlights.

Using PIM to develop a Protection Case Management Guidance 

Click on the video to watch a clip from the PIM webinar from January 2021 where UNHCR’s Houda Chalchoul and the International Rescue Committee’s Emily Krehm discuss how the IRC-UNHCR Protection Case Management Guidance reflects elements of the PIM Framework.

Click here to download a pdf version of the presentation, and here for a summary with key PIM highlights.

Adapting a PIM ToT to a Virtual Training Environment in Latin America

Maria-Elena Hernandez and Purvi Patel share how they adapted the PIM Training of Trainers into a virtual learning environment for the Regional PIM ToT in Latin America. In this audio clip, they share their experience, including bottlenecks, lessons learned, and the inspiring benefits of facilitating PIM trainings online.

Click here for a Tip Sheet on Designing Online PIM Learning Events, available in English and Spanish.