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UNHCR’s Protection Response
- The protection response by UNHCR and our partners provides tailored support to those most in need, aims to strengthen inclusive national systems and services, and encourages the participation of internally displaced people (IDPs) and returnees in decisions that affect them.
- Our protection response complements, reinforces and strengthens the capacity of national protection services to serve the growing population in need, in line with the Memoranda of Understanding with Ministries and Oblast authorities.
- In implementing our protection response, we work directly with communities, including our network of some 550 community-based organizations, some 100 IDP Councils and predominantly local NGO partners. In 2024, UNHCR works with 20 partners, of which 16 are national organizations.
- From January to August 2024, UNHCR’s protection response has reached 440,921 people. Of those, 76 per cent are females. 33 per cent or over 147,000 are older people above the age of 60 years, while some 16 per cent are minors.
Over 42,000 people supported are living with a disability. - UNHCR and partners promoted legal and policy developments through 90 advocacy and judicial interventions aimed at improving access to rights for forcibly displaced, stateless, and other war-affected people.
- UNHCR and partners improved access to services for 29,700 people living in collective sites. Of those, over 10,000 are older people and 3,000 are people living with a disability. UNHCR, in collaboration with authorities and alongside the Office of the Ombudsperson, also advocates for the implementation of the safety audit recommendations and the implementation of the standards set out in Resolution 930 to enhance the protection of those living in the sites, specifically through GBV preventative action and greater disability inclusion.