Protection capacity and delivery

While considerable progress has been made in mainstreaming protection in various
functions during the recent structural and management change process, challenges remain,
including in further enhancing UNHCR's capacity to deliver protection in the Field. This
Note examines the challenges facing the Office in protecting populations of concern. It
then looks at the area of protection management and, subsequently, examines selected
protection themes, pointing out key steps for further progress under each area.
 

UNHCR’s renewed focus on protection capacity must be examined against the
current operational environment and protection challenges. The Office’s efforts to
delivering protection take place in the context of shrinking humanitarian space; an
increasingly complex security and humanitarian environment; increased urbanization;
complex internal displacement situations; and migratory movements, often of a mixed
character