EDUCATION · HUMANITARIAN AID · DEVELOPMENT

Protection

Protection of yourself, of the people you love, of your dreams, your values, your culture. That is your right — not a kindness someone extends to you.

The strongest protection you have was written in 1949. Most people have never read it.

Protection fails twice: when people don't know their rights, and when help doesn't know how to reach them. IHCP works on both.

Working under the sign of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Pilot opening in Kassel.

Know. Build. Protect.

EDUCATION · HUMANITARIAN AID · DEVELOPMENT

Protection

Protection of yourself, of the people you love, of your dreams, your values, your culture. That is your right — not a kindness someone extends to you.

The strongest protection you have was written in 1949. Most people have never read it.

Protection fails twice: when people don't know their rights, and when help doesn't know how to reach them. IHCP works on both.

Working under the sign of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Pilot opening in Kassel.

Know. Build. Protect.

WHERE PROTECTION COMES FROM

Protection begins long before anyone needs rescuing.

It starts with knowing what is already yours. It holds when there is still a road, a budget, and a partner standing. And it answers on the day everything else has failed. IHCP works at all three moments, not only the loud one.

THE ORGANISATION

Knowledge prevents.
Aid answers.
Infrastructure ends it.

What the law already gives you can be learned before you need it. Anyone who has read it once in its own wording spots the gap immediately.

What we do

We move what protection is missing.

The rules that protect you have long been written down. Anyone who has read them once recognises immediately when they are broken — and can demand them.

The text itself, not the reading of it

The Geneva Conventions, the national law that carries them, and what both already give you today — read in the text, not in a summary of a summary.

Who this is for

Six ways lead here.

You have a question nobody answers clearly. The first step is knowing which rule applies at all — and who owes it to you.

Where it starts

Protection begins with one sentence somebody knows.

No project begins with money. It begins with somebody who knows what already applies — and where it is written down.

The workshops

Four days that put the rule in your hands.

Four days on the text itself: the conventions, the national law that carries them, and what both already give you today. Not a course about summaries.

Who the workshops are for

Who it is for, and what can change in your life.

Most people are bound by rules nobody ever read to them. Here you learn to read them yourself.

What comes after

The course ends. The adventure begins.

Now you know where the rule is written. Now we plan with you, prepare what is needed and take the strategic steps towards your goals. IHCP is there to help you further.

The principles

Seven principles decide how we help.

IHCP works to the standard the humanitarian movement wrote for itself. Seven principles, and every step we take has to answer to all of them.

Why IHCP matters for governments

You have seen aid arrive.
And you have seen it leave.

Every authority carries the same file. The organisation that landed unannounced and answered to nobody.

A ledger you can audit

Projects arrive with enthusiasm and leave with the attention. What stays behind is yours to explain: to citizens, to ministries, to the press. The risk lands on you.

How we work together

Four steps, in this order.

Before anything is planned, we listen. Whoever describes the situation usually knows it better than any report about it.

Professionals

A few of the trades that carry a project.

One midwife on the ground changes the numbers of a whole region. There are few decisions with a better ratio.

The first hour decides with you

Where a midwife stands, mortality falls measurably. It is the smallest staffing decision with the largest effect.