Refugee children’s participation in protection: a case study from Uganda

For UNHCR, the protection of children, including their participation, is an area of growing consideration and concern. There is a whole raft of UNHCR policy and guidance published in the late 1980s and 1990s relating specifically to the protection of refugee children, most of which at least makes reference to child participation.3
Alongside this, an increasingly community-based approach and the more recent introduction of UNHCR’s Age Gender and Diversity (AGD) policy in 2011, specifically engaging different and diverse populations of concern, has fostered a more participatory approach to protection within UNHCR as a whole.