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UNHCR-Supported Community Centres
The network of UNHCR community centres in Syria is fundamental to the UNHCR Syria Protection and Solutions Strategy, bringing to the fore community participation, reaching out to affected populations, assessing protection risks and vulnerabilities using a participatory age, gender and diversity approach, identifying community resources, responding to the priority needs expressed by communities, strengthening community self-help networks, and offering a wide range of protection services and support to benefit the returnee population in addition to the internally displaced people (IDPs), asylum-seekers, refugees and host communities.
“One-stop shop”
UNHCR community centres are designed as a “one-stop shop” providing protection interventions that include, but are not limited to, psychosocial support (PSS), gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response, child protection activities, legal aid programmes, services for persons with disabilities and older persons, social and recreational activities, life skills and development, awareness raising on a range of protection issues as well as consultations with communities to ensure their meaningful participation.
The community centres are considered the hub where identification of needs and vulnerabilities, as well as referrals to adequate response and protection services are provided.