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Context Overview
The effects of ongoing attacks and skirmishes amongst crisis participants continued to affect the people in the North-West and South-West regions. Population-related effects include deaths, arbitrary detention and arrests, arson, and property damage, kidnapping for ransom, threats, and harassment at checkpoints and roadblocks, demands for illegal payments, movement restrictions brought on by frequent lockdowns, roadblocks, and curfews, and persistent use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). OCHA Sitrep from June 2024 states that there is a chance that aid workers will suffer collateral harm in addition to harassment, incarceration, or kidnapping. At least eight instances involving aid workers were reported to NWSW in June. Of these, four happened in the Northwest and four in the southwest. Between May 17 and 20, humanitarian operations were halted because of a four-day curfew in conjunction with National Unity Day celebrations.
Since November 2018, DRC has been working on Protection, Shelter/NFI, and Economic Recovery (ECREC) initiatives for the people affected by the crisis in the South-West area. Child protection, community-based protection, Protection Information Management (PIM), GBV prevention and response, and psychological support are the four primary pillars under which DRC has been functioning in the protection sector. Protection monitoring is the systematic and regular collection, verification, and analysis of data over a long period (every month) to identify rights violations and/or protection risks, priorities, and needs of populations of concern to implement effective reactive measures. Protection monitoring is a component of protection information management. The main conclusions of DRC's protection monitoring operations from April through June of 2024 are presented in this report. This write-up summarizes the effects of the ongoing crisis in the SW on the local population and the protection situation. It was created utilizing data from eight communities in Southwest Cameroon's Fako, Ndian, Kupe Muanenguba, and Meme divisions. The P21 tool and the DRC's daily protection incident tracker were used in the development process. The DRC's protection monitoring initiatives also assist evidence-based protection and Economic Recovery measures that are intended to address and mitigate protection problems about displacement and human rights abuses.