Independent Whole of System Review of Protection in the Context of Humanitarian Action

This Whole of System Review examines how protection issues are addressed in the context of humanitarian action and makes practical suggestions to help humanitarian actors be more strategic, and better capable of meeting core life-saving humanitarian responsibilities in relation to protection.

This Review used an inductive method to examine the complexities, discontinuities and dysfunctionalities that characterise the way in which protection issues are presently addressed in the context of humanitarian action. It is based on a combination of methods including a literature review, interview data, an online survey, field missions to Myanmar, South Sudan, and the Syria crisis as well as a desk review of protection issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It contextualises the challenges and opportunities associated with protective humanitarian action in a landscape of changing power relations that has direct implications for at-risk groups in settings as diverse as Yemen, Somalia or Nepal.