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STRATEGIC GOALS

Strengthen community-based protection work & apply approaches across different sectors

• Provide training for partners and other functional units
  
• Support with community consultation training
  
• Protection interventions, such as developing child protection concepts or community-based rehabilitation
  

Support community empowerment & enhance meaningful engagement

• Hosting social, cultural, educational and recreational activities at Community Support Centres for refugee and host community members
  
• Participatory assessments implemented by the centres and involving communities
  
• Informing UNHCR’s protection programming and projects involving national partners (JOHUD & CARE)
  

Increase & strengthen UNHCR’s protection response via outreach

• Mobile Help Desks, counselling activities, focus group discussions, support mobile registration service
  

Solidify an inclusive approach to refugee protection

• Design protection responses that are accessible for all, target all sectors and record data
  
• Advocacy for making services inclusive to all persons of concern, by highlighting best practices and development/referral pathways