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Protection Analysis Framework

Protection Analysis Framework

This adapted Protection Analysis Framework (PAF) guide is a simplified version designed to be accessible to a wide range of organizations, especially those representing minority groups such as persons with disabilities, women, youth, and LGBTQ+ communities. It aims to help all humanitarian organizations better understand and use protection analysis tools.

The document explains what the PAF is, why it matters, and how to apply it through a clear workflow, key analysis pillars, guiding questions, and practical examples. It also includes disability-specific considerations and is supported by a PowerPoint that introduces the framework and can be shared with others.

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Focus areas
Human Rights and Protection Human Rights and Social Justice
Custodian(s)
International Rescue Committee
TOTA

TOTA is a project IRC led with Sida funding and NEAR advisory support that produced 21 adapted open-source toolkits in 2025-2026. Through collaboration with a variety of Global South actors and international actors and through simple editing, the effort adapted existing resources, translated them into Arabic, French, and Spanish, and made them freely available on an open-source platform for CSOs across the Global South. If you have any questions contact Sara.Sannouh@rescue.org.

Protection Analysis Framework

This adapted Protection Analysis Framework (PAF) guide is an adapted version of the full technical Protection Analysis Framework. 

This version has been created with organisations of minority groups including Organisations of Persons with Disabilities, Organisations of Women, Organisations of Youth and Organisations of LGBTQ+ people. 

Any organisation doing humanitarian work and Protection Analysis should be able to understand and use the Protection Analytical Framework resources. This includes local, national and international organisations. This adapted version aims to be easier to understand so that more people can use the resources. 

This document covers: 

  • what the Protection Analysis Framework is, why it is important and when to use it. 

  • a workflow which explains how to do the work, 

  • the areas or “pillars” to use when doing an analysis along with questions to think about 

  • some example stories of how to use the Framework 

  • some disability specific things to think about 

Along with this document there is a PowerPoint that has the key Protection Analysis Framework information. The PowerPoint can be used as an introduction to the resources and shared with anyone interested in the work.