FMR 53 - Understanding and supporting co...

This issue’s feature theme, ‘Local communities: first and last providers of protection’, looks at the capacity of communities to organise themselves before, during and after displacement in ways that help protect the community. 

The growing criticism of protection actors for neglecting indigenous coping strategies and capacities should prompt a radical, creative re-think of attitudes and approaches. 

In parts of Sudan, local NGOs and women’s groups have taken the lead in their own protection, and their considerable achievements have helped change the status of women in their communities. 

Good shelter programming must include mitigation measures throughout the project cycle in order to reduce GBV risks. 

COP27 - Radical changes needed to prevent climate disaster say experts 

Insufficient attention has been paid to the design of shelters and settlements in protracted refugee encampments in Eastern Africa. The results invisibly obstruct young children’s development. 

Send us a textIn part 2 we examine the ways in which it is possible to protect yourself, and recover from abusive behaviours. 

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