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“Everyone in Ethiopia, especially those affected by conflict, disasters, and climate change, is protected, resilient, and supported through timely and accessible protection services. Communities should experience reduced exposure to violence, exploitation, and exclusion, empowered with greater resilience.”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The mission of the Ethiopia National Protection Cluster and its Technical Working Groups (TWGs) is to reinforce a protective environment in Ethiopia, ensuring the safeguarding of people, respect of their rights, and the finding of solutions in accordance with international law. We aim to guarantee a well-coordinated, effective, and principled approach to protection preparedness and response, with protection as the centre of in all humanitarian action and acknowledged as essential in the nexus of development and peace.
This strategy encompasses and is informed by the work and the strategic directions of Child Protection, Gender-Based Violence, Mine Action, and Housing, Land and Property. The strategy forms the basis of the Cluster’s coordinated response to the complex protection crisis in Ethiopia. It provides direction to the membership of the Protection Cluster and the wider humanitarian community.
It is informed and guided by the Global Protection Cluster Strategic Framework 2020-2024, the 2013 IASC Statement on the Centrality of Protection in Humanitarian Action, and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, IASC policy on Protection in Humanitarian Action.
The strategy prioritizes strengthening coordinated protection responses in high-risk areas, reinforcing national and community-based protection systems, enhancing evidence-based advocacy, and promoting safe, voluntary, and sustainable durable solutions. It aims to balance immediate response with prevention and longer-term systems strengthening.
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