Attachments
Sector Updates
Donor Engagement Meeting
The Protection Sector North-East Nigeria (PSNE) and its Areas of Responsibilities (AoRs); Child Protection (CP), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Housing, Land, and Property (HLP), and Mine Action (MA) conducted a donor engagement meeting with 19 key donors and the sector’s lead agencies on 17 September 2024 in Abuja. The sector and AoRs provided an overview of the protection context and trends, sector objectives vs achievements, funding situation, challenges and gaps in the protection response, and priorities for the remaining months of the year.
Protection Monitoring Technical Working Group (PMTWG)
The Protection Monitoring Technical Working Group (PMTWG) conducted its meeting on 14th October 2024 with the participation of 13-member protection organizations. Partners discussed and reached on the way forward on the revision of the Protection Monitoring HH tool and Protection Incident Reporting (PIR) tool. It was also agreed to organise a training of trainers for protection monitoring team (see below).
Protection Monitoring System (PMS) Training
The Protection Sector North-East Nigeria (PSNE) organized a three-day training on Protection Monitoring System (PMS) for 26 protection monitors of the members of the Protection Monitoring Technical Working Group (PM-TWG) between 29 – 31 October 2024. The training aimed to improve participants’ theoretical understanding of protection analysis and protection information management and their practical usage of the Household Assessment (HHA) and Protection Incident Reporting (PIR) tools for Protection risk-focused Protection monitoring. The Protection monitors are equipped with the capacity to roll down the PMS training for their field-level staff.
Training on Protection Principles for Law Enforcement Officers
The Protection Sector in collaboration with IOM and UNHCR organized a two-day training for 96 frontline law enforcement officers (police, the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), and the civil defense) and government partners in two batches. The training aimed to ensure the protection of the affected population and prevent reported protection concerns in the camps by enhancing the knowledge of frontline law enforcement officers on protection standards and good security practices. The training covered key protection principles, humanitarian assistance and risk of sexual exploitation and abuse, responding to GBV disclosures and referral pathways, trafficking in Persons (TiP) response, CMCOORD, and safe distribution and crowd control security measures. The training team also included trainers from the Nigeria Police Force, WFP, The Borno Women Development Initiative, and OCHA.