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I. INTRODUCTION
Myanmar continues to struggle with longstanding human rights concerns and a decades-long humanitarian crisis, which has become more complex by the military takeover of February 2021. This strategy forms the basis of the Protection Cluster’s coordinated response to the complex protection crisis in Myanmar. This strategy aims to provide strategic direction to partners in the Protection Cluster and the wider humanitarian community about the intended protection outcomes for the affected people by conflict and human rights violations and complements the strategies of the Protection Cluster’s Areas of Responsibility (AoR) such as Mine Action (MA) Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Child Protection (CP) in Myanmar.
The work of the Protection Cluster is guided by international law, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the 2013 Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Statement on the Centrality of Protection in Humanitarian Action, the 2015 IASC Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Guidelines for Integrating GBV Interventions in Humanitarian Action, the IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, 2019 , International Mine Action standards (IMAS) and the 2016 IASC Policy on Protection in Humanitarian Action, the objectives listed in the Myanmar Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) 2024, and the HCT Protection Strategy.