Forward-leaning, Relationship-based Access, Global Protection Forum 2022
Channel: Global Protection Cluster GPC
Date: 2022-11-03

Organised by Nonviolent Peaceforce and co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations Office, this session will illustrate the potential that access for the protection holds to become one of the most relevant, direct-action approaches to operationalizing the triple nexus. It will explore forward leaning, locally co-created, deeply rooted, relationship-based efforts in opening access and contributing to an improved protective environment. These efforts create improved predictability at the least and improved security at the best, thereby having the potential to interrupt cycles of violence, enabling safer space for more significant localized action, humanitarian and development efforts.

Focus on both access and protection has been growing significantly across the humanitarian landscape in recent years. While the increased attention can bring welcome resources and focus to these challenging elements of humanitarian responses, the risk is that an energized system wide focus can inadvertently overshadow existing, dynamic, effective and localized actions. 

This event is envisaged as an opportunity to amplify local voices and experiences in the space of access for protection.  It will engage with protection cluster colleagues in South Sudan and Iraq.  It will be important for the purposes of this forum to illustrate the mutually reinforcing roles the humanitarian system actors, INGOs and local actors can play in building the access for protection chain.