Community Perspectives on Protection: A Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Analysis of Palestinian Communities in Southern Lebanon

In March 2009 the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) launched a 12- month protection project with the aim of enhancing the protection environment for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The project focuses primarily on communities in the south and includes the 5 camps and 23 gatherings in the areas of Saida and Tyr. DRC views this as a pilot project that will develop and test interventions that can be later adapted to other parts of Lebanon.
The project aims to achieve impact by tackling protection issues at three levels: firstly, at the individual level by providing direct support to highly vulnerable refugees including non-ID refugees and families from Nahr el Bared (NBC) displaced in southern Lebanon; secondly, at the community level, through improved awareness of protection issues, referral and response capacities; and finally, at the regional/national level through information dissemination, coordination and advocacy.