Protection

Protection Cluster Overview

Protection covers a wide range of activities that are aimed at ensuring respect for the rights of all individuals, regardless of their age, gender or social, ethnic, national, religious or other background. This requires a collaborative and coordinated response by various national and international actors with diverse mandates, expertise and experience. This websites aims to provide information about protection coordination in humanitarian operations at the global and country levels in order to assist protection actors on the ground to ensure a more effective and predictable response to protection

GPC

The Global Protection Cluster (GPC) is chaired by UNHCR, which is the global lead agency for protection.

The role of the GPC is to lead standard- and policy-setting relating to protection, support the development of strenghtened protection capacity, and provide operational advice and support when requested by protection working groups at the country level. It also ensures that protection is mainstreamed and integrated in other clusters and sectors.

The GPC has developed its Strategic Framework for the period 2009-2011, describing priorities, roles and responsibilities and an annual Workplan for 2010.

The GPC regularly organizes support missions for Country Protection Clusters

Areas of Responsibilities (AORs)

In light of their specific expertise, certain agencies have agreed to serve as Focal point Agencies for certain Areas of responsibilitity (AORs) within the GPC:

Child Protection (UNICEF)
Gender-Based Violence (UNFPA/UNICEF)
Land, Housing and Property (UN-Habitat)
Mine Action (UNMAS)
Rule of Law and Justice (UNDP/OHCHR)

Practices from the Field

The GPC calls on all partners and practitioners to help identify and share examples of protection practices from the field to help facilitate the sharing of experiences across operations.

You can share a practice by sending it to hqproclu@unhcr.org

See our collection of practices from the field!

To learn about the GPCs policy on good practices click here.