While considerable progress has been made in mainstreaming protection in various functions during the recent structural and management change process, challenges remain, including in further enhancing UNHCR's capacity to deliver protection in the Field. This Note examines the challenges facing the Office in protecting populations of concern. It then looks at the area of protection management and, subsequently, examines selected protection themes, pointing out key steps for further progress under each area.
UNHCR’s renewed focus on protection capacity must be examined against the current operational environment and protection challenges. The Office’s efforts to delivering protection take place in the context of shrinking humanitarian space; an increasingly complex security and humanitarian environment; increased urbanization; complex internal displacement situations; and migratory movements, often of a mixed character
Resource collections
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience