Protection Planning
Definition
Protection planning is the organisational discipline of mapping threats, vulnerabilities, and capacities for a social organisation or a defender at risk, then translating that map into a written protection plan that integrates digital, physical, psychosocial, and legal dimensions.
It is the contemporary practitioner consolidation of work that used to be scattered across digital-security trainers, physical-safety protocol developers, psychosocial-support practitioners, and human-rights lawyers — and the central methodological reference is Tactical Tech and Front Line Defenders’ Holistic Security curriculum, which embeds protection planning in a broader organisational-security process.
The craft is in the periodic re-assessment: a protection plan written once and forgotten is worse than none, because it produces a false sense of security. Practitioner guides treat the protection plan as a living document, reviewed quarterly or after any significant incident.
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FAQ
What is protection planning?
Protection planning is the organisational discipline of mapping threats, vulnerabilities, and capacities for a social organisation or a defender at risk, then translating that map into a written protection plan that integrates digital, physical, psychosocial, and legal dimensions [source: front-line-protection-template]. It is the contemporary practitioner consolidation of work that used to be scattered across digital-security trainers, physical-safety protocol developers, psychosocial-support practitioners, and human-rights lawyers.
What is the central methodological reference?
The central methodological reference is Tactical Tech and Front Line Defenders’ Holistic Security curriculum, which embeds protection planning in a broader organisational-security process [source: front-line-protection-template]. The plan integrates digital, physical, psychosocial, and legal dimensions rather than treating each dimension as a separate workstream.
What is the practitioner craft of protection planning?
The craft is in the periodic re-assessment: a protection plan written once and forgotten is worse than none, because it produces a false sense of security [source: front-line-protection-template]. Practitioner guides treat the protection plan as a living document, reviewed quarterly or after any significant incident.