Scale up general  protection programming in Leer County of unity State. As a result of large-scale violence that took place in Leer county of Unity state between  Feb-April 2022, the entire population of Leer has experienced the worst form of violence that include large-scale displacement which displaced over 43,000 in areas of Laul, Gandor, Padeah Dindin, Bou Geer, Adok, Pilieny, Thonyor payam and others surrounding villages to Leer town, Muon training center, and to several swampy areas, and Islands in fear for their lives and safety. This has resulted in the loss of lives, unlawful killing of unarmed civilians, raping and abductions of women and girls, recycling of revenge killing, destruction of properties/facilities of aid agencies including looting of several metric tons of humanitarian supplies, and entire livelihood of the civilians has been destroyed. Such a humanitarian catastrophe has exposed the most vulnerable individuals to different sorts of protection risks and they are in dire need of protection services, and other basic humanitarian assistance

Through static presence established in 2018, in Leer, which will be supported through mobile response, this project is GP  and CP integrated aims for systematic and regular protection data collection throughout the project period to verify and analyze the protection information on a routine basis in order to identify violations of rights, protection risks or threats, vulnerability factors,  protection environment, needs of the affected population including immediate live-saving assistance required by populations of concern as well as their existing capacity, coping strategies, and movement patterns or trends of the IDPs, returnees, and refugees returnees. Quantitative qualitative data on the protection situation will be shared with the humanitarian community to assist in the decision-making process and in the design of future projects.
 The aim is also to identify the persons with specific protection needs, Child protection-related needs, PSS/cases management, and FTR, including CFS, will be constructed where child protection activities will take place for conflict-affected children as part of trauma healing. Other groups like PSNs will be provided with individual protection assistance or referral to other humanitarian partners in case the needs cannot be provided by Mobile Humanitarian Agencies. Special attention will be given to persons with a physical disability or other forms of vulnerability-related conditions in our effort to prevent the negative impact of the shock on the PSNs. MHA will conduct a new stakeholders mapping to have a better understanding of the context and to apply the area-based approach, guided by the doing no harm principle, and engage with non-protection partners to ensure the centrality of protection in their responses as part of a collective effort to ensure delivery of quality and inclusive humanitarian assistance to all affected population

This project will be complementary to the USAID resilience and youth engagement project aimed to provide psychosocial support, and economic empowerment for youth to deal with post-conflict stresses, and shock that negatively influences people’s lives in order to reduce their vulnerability which is in line with MHA’s integration approach aims to address the underlying causes of protection risks and social injustice in order to secure long term protection outcomes at the community level which will allow MHA to assess and reflect on how well resilience activities can be integrated into emergency projects so that the community mindset on humanitarian is gradually reduced by building on the existing positive coping mechanism and to prepare people toward the durable solution. This project will reach 20,166 individuals sex-segregated as follows  5,100 men, 8,039 women, 3,954 boys, and 3,073girls.