Welcome to the Community Engagement in Humanitarian Settings theme. Here you will find a collection of training materials, frameworks, guidelines, and case studies that explore the principles and practice of community engagement in humanitarian settings. Whether you are a researcher, practitioner, or student, these resources are designed to support learning, inform evidence-based decision-making, and enhance the quality and effectiveness of community engagement across humanitarian research and practice.

Special thanks to the Save the Children team for kindly sharing their resources and making them available to the MESH community.

Author: Nada Abdelrahman, MESH MENA Coordinator

 

Frameworks & Guidelines

 

Participatory Action Research Training Tool : Arabic Version

Participatory Action Research Training Tool – Arabic Version

 

Participatory Action Research Training Tool : English Version

Participatory Action Research Training Tool – English Version

Case studies

 

Participatory Action Research as a Model for Community Engagement with People with Disabilities in the Arab Region: Evidence from Palestine 

 
 

Theatre as the main research tool in humanitarian contexts

I Wish Tomorrow Will Not Come: Adolescents and the impact of conflict on their experiences - Save the Children’s Resource Centre

 

 Music as a research tool invloving adolescent voice in humanitarian contexts

Full article: Participatory songwriting with adolescents: a relational research method for practice and inquiry in global development 

(PDF) Silent Lions - Experiences of voice and collective power among adolescent gIrls and boys affected by conflict and violence in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey: Findings from arts-based research

 

Training

 

Virtual Training

Community Engagement in Global Health Research - Eastern Mediterranean Region

 

E-learning module 

Adolescents in Humanitarian Contexts: Adolescents StC EN | Kaya