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Executive Summary
The 2025-2027 Refugee Protection and Solutions Strategy (hereafter the Strategy) operationalizes the Refugee Coordination Model (RCM) in Sudan, aligning with the broader humanitarian response and coordination framework. Grounded in Sudan’s country-specific and regional context, the Strategy is anchored in the Sudan Country and Regional Refugee Response Plans, ensuring protection delivery and guiding partners in coordinated interventions.
This strategy, as an operational document, strengthens collaboration among UNHCR, protection actors, and stakeholders to achieve shared protection objectives. It identifies key protection risks, needs, and capacities of asylum-seekers and refugees and host communities through an age, gender, and diversity (AGD) lens, prioritizing collective action to mitigate risks and enhance service delivery. The Strategy emphasizes integrated approaches - combining strategic and operational elements - to improve protection outcomes, complement national systems, and foster synergies among humanitarian, human rights, and development actors.
Developed through inclusive consultations with the Sudanese Commissioner for Refugees (COR), protection partners, and affected communities, the Strategy aligns with sector-specific priorities under the Sudan Country Refugee Response Plan (CRRP). The implementation of the Strategy will be led by the Government of Sudan, as the primary duty-bearer, with sustained support from protection partners. Local and national NGOs, including community-based organizations, will be prioritized to strengthen capacity, ensuring international actors’ support rather than replacing local initiatives.
The Strategy bridges urgent humanitarian response with long-term recovery and development, in line with the UN Common Approach (2024-2025) and the extended UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2025). Recognizing Sudan’s evolving context, the UN Country Team (UNCT) is developing an interim Cooperation Framework (2026-2028), informed by the Sustainable development Goals (SDG), needs assessments, and past United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) lessons. By fostering government leadership, community inclusion, and multi-stakeholder coordination, the Strategy seeks to deliver durable protection and solutions for refugees in Sudan.