Our work

What We Do

At PIN UK, we provide specialist technical expertise in international development and humanitarian response. Working closely with PIN's international Country Programmes, civil society partners, and government organisations, we support the design and delivery of effective, locally-led programmes globally. 

Our work is guided by the Relief and Development mandate and contributes to three strategic pillars: emergency response and recovery, climate resilience, and civil society and inclusive governance. With a focus on flexibility, responsiveness and reaching those in hard-to-reach areas, we are committed to approaches that are locally driven and rooted in partnership, supporting communities to recover from crisis and build more inclusive and climate-resilient societies. 

Humanitarian Aid and Development

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Emergency Response and Recovery (ERR)

PIN operates under a dual mandate, providing both humanitarian assistance and development cooperation. This enables PIN to better link emergency relief, recovery and long-term development while integrating disaster preparedness and risk reduction. PIN’s assistance is needs-based, contextual and rooted in collaboration with local actors, focusing on the contexts where we can demonstrate our value added. PIN adheres to key humanitarian principles and standards, including the ICRC Code of Conduct, the SPHERE standards, the Core Humanitarian Standard on Accountability and Quality (CHS) and sector-specific technical guidelines.

PIN’s capacity to provide a rapid response to the most affected often in hard-to-reach areas is built on three key strengths:

Delivering aid in hard-to-reach and insecure environments: PIN has a demonstrated track record of delivering high quality responses and adapting quickly in highly volatile, hard-to-reach environments. PIN staff face challenges head-on and look for ways to deliver assistance in hard-to-reach and often conflict-affected areas.

We listen to people and empower them: PIN is committed to ensuring meaningful participation of the people we aim to serve. PIN’s adaptive management approach allows PIN to take a flexible, adaptive approach, continuously adjusting plans based on local needs, feedback, and changing contexts. Through participatory assessments and regular learning, PIN ensures that our programming remains relevant and effective.

We are flexible, reactive, and can mobilise humanitarian professionals rapidly: Capitalizing on response capacity and flexibility allows PIN to be the first responders in arising crisis situations and hard-to-reach areas. Internal private funding enables PIN to initiate a response before institutional funding flows and affords additional freedom to define what to do and where in the first phase. This is a key asset that aligns fully with PIN’s origins, enabling us to be driven by need.

PIN’s Thematic areas of Humanitarian Response:

• Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA)
• Nutrition-sensitive food security assistance
• Shelter and non-food items & Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
• Education in Emergencies (EiE) with integrated psychosocial support and mainstreamed child protection
• Economic Recovery
• Disaster Risk Reduction & Preparedness

Climate Resilience

PIN’s approach to climate resilience pillar is locally-led, inclusive, risk-informed, integrating systemic and nature-based solutions while promoting social and behavioural changes to address vulnerabilities and uphold human rights. In response to the climate emergency, we work with people, communities, and governments to strengthen their resilience to climate change. Our climate resilience approach is structured around the following key programmatic components:

Climate resilient food and livelihoods system: PIN adopts a systems approach to improve food and nutrition security in climate-change vulnerable areas. Our approach focuses on Climate Smart Agriculture, agri-value chain development and nutrition-sensitive programming using a Social Behaviour change approach.

Climate resilient WASH: Our programming strengthens resilient WASH systems through multi-sectoral assistance and focusing on the professionalisation of WASH services. WASH projects are combined with education, natural resource management, improved agricultural techniques, sustainable livelihoods and market systems development.

Climate-smart energy solutions: PIN aims to strengthen resilience through off-grid solutions, enhancing energy-efficiency to reduce household costs, and promoting clean energy technology to reduce household air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Green Jobs, Skills and Circular Economy: PIN takes a multi-pronged approach to improving the quality and market-relevance of vocational education. PIN supports green economic development by diversifying livelihoods and improving vocational education through a market-driven approach, engaging the private sector and communities to identify high-demand, environmentally sustainable sectors. Our Market Systems Development strategy prioritises green jobs, with a focus on the circular economy and recycling sectors.

Disaster Risk Management: We enhance disaster risk management in areas prone to climate change-induced shocks and stresses such as droughts, floods and landslides, especially through Early Warning Systems and anticipatory action. PIN is an active member of the START network, the Anticipation Hub and Risk-Informed Early Action Partnership (REAP), and holds an observer position in the Climate Risk & Early Warning System (CREWS) initiative.

Taking a human rights-based approach, PIN engages both duty bearers and right holders, supporting locally-led climate action and adaptation. We work alongside communities and local stakeholders to co-design and accelerate relevant and systemic interventions, particularly for those disproportionately affected by the destructive impacts of climate change.

Civil Society and Inclusive Governance (CSIG)

Empowering civil society is part of PIN’s DNA and we continue to support civil society as leaders of democratic transition, inclusive development and humanitarian response. We work with a wide range of actors: formal national-level civil society organisations as well as grassroots civic groups, volunteers and activists. Our support for civil society and inclusive governance is both a strategic priority, as well as a cross-cutting approach that intersects our programming and helps to facilitate local ownership, social cohesion and sustainability towards longer-term development goals.

PIN’s Civil Society and Inclusive Governance Pillar programming focuses on three key pathways to empower civil society, strengthen social cohesion and support governments to become more accountable and responsive to the citizens they represent.

Youth civic engagement: PIN focuses on empowering the next generation of active citizens and peacebuilders via its One World in Schools youth civic education, human rights and media literacy programming and youth civic engagement actions. PIN’s flagship One World in Schools methodology is an innovative teaching methodology that uses documentary films and activities to educate and empower young people to make the changes they want to see in society. To date, PIN’s One World in Schools methodology and youth civic engagement programs have been implemented in 12 countries globally and reaching thousands of students and young citizens.

Inclusive governance of public services: PIN supports governments to develop more accountable, transparent and participatory mechanisms for planning, delivery and monitoring of policies and public services. PIN’s Participatory Planning for Social Inclusion methodology brings together citizens, civil society actors and government authorities that represent them to jointly develop, implement and monitor public services to ensure they meet the needs of all citizens and support community resilience. We recognize that inclusive governance is a key element to develop conflict resilience and social cohesion in fragile contexts. Towards this goal, PIN works with a diverse group of local change makers to target social and gender behaviors and norms that prevent marginalized groups accessing services, suppports governments to introduce accountability mechanisms and provides technical capacity development opportunities to deliver inclusive public services and contribute to social cohesion in the target communities.

Human Rights

PIN organises the largest Human Rights film festival in the world - One World, and PIN’s Centre for Human Rights and Democracy supports human rights defenders and activists in some of the world’s most authoritarian regimes. Two of our flagship Civil Society and Inclusive Governance programmes - One World in Schools and Participatory Planning for Social Inclusion - are methodologies developed and implemented in the Czech Republic and expanded to the countries PIN works in globally.