Handbooks and toolkits

This Handbook is a guide to agile, effective and community based humanitarian emergency responses. It is primarily a tool for UNHCR emergency operations and its workforce.

This Handbook is a comprehensive guide for the integration of resettled refugees, with checklists, practical advice, and good practices.

This Handbook defines needs assessments and outlines the roles of different actors in refugee situations. It provides detailed practical guidance on how to conduct needs assessments in the field, which can be applied to all sectors, situations, methods, and populations of concern.

This Toolkit provides staff and managers with practical methods for the operationalisation of UNHCR's accountability commitments, achieved through mainstreaming into performance management and protection and assistance delivery.

This Toolkit is designed for humanitarian settings and public health actors. It offers an overall approach to practical assessment tools to be used to improve people's mental health and well-being, depending on your capacity and the phase of the humanitarian crisis.

This Toolkit describes UNHCR's case management framework for asylum-seeking and refugee children. It provides access to the range of tools and guidance necessary for implementing the Best Interests Procedure (BIP) for individual children.

This Toolkit describes the best practices in sheltering asylum-seeking families at the U.S. southern border.

This Toolkit aims to assist operations in determining the feasibility of cash-based interventions (CBIs) in UNHCR country programmes. It is to be used after a needs assessment has taken place, and serves CBI practitioners in the field.

This Toolkit offers practical experiences of municipal authorities and local actors in translating national policies into solutions for the effective inclusion of refugees, with refugees being fully included in their design and development.

This Toolkit offers essential guidance and resources to Gender-Based Violence specialists and non-specialists working with or for UNHCR.

This Toolkit is designed to provide UNHCR personnel with practical guidance and user-friendly tools, tips, information and resources to support the achievement of gender equality.

UNHCR and WFP have jointly developed this toolkit to help humanitarian actors and cash recipients identify and mitigate risks of abuse of power in cash-based assistance.

This Toolkit provides step-by-step guidance and tools to enable staff with limited skills in market data collection and analysis to successfully carry out a Multi-sector Market Assessment and market monitoring - to be applied in all operational contexts.

This Toolkit brings together worldwide expertise on cash-based interventions. It provides comprehensive and practical guidance for humanitarian actors to assess the feasibility, conceptualize the design and structure the implementation of MPGs.