2019 oPt Emergency Appeal - Gaza - Protection

To mitigate and respond to the mounting protection risks and impacts, UNRWA will reinforce its protection capacity and processes within programmes and services and will strengthen inter-programme coordination and cooperation and referral systems. Priority will be the training of front-line staff on protection principles, protection interventions, referral systems and GBV (response, mitigation and prevention) in emergency situations. Specific attention will be also given to violence against children, child labour and risks and vulnerabilities for persons with disabilities. Interventions will include working towards reintegrating out-of-school children into formal and informal education in collaboration with service providers; facilitating access to vocational training for vulnerable older children; as well as assisting GBV survivors with health, psychosocial, legal and social interventions. UNRWA will also raise awareness and increase advocacy in relation to the protracted humanitarian crisis and in particular the impact of the Great March of Return on the rights of Palestine refugees. It will include active engagement in inter-agency coordination systems, strengthening protection mechanisms and the provision of relevant information to international human rights mechanisms, capacity permitting. The Agency will brief by foreign delegations visiting Gaza on the humanitarian and protection environment and will advocate for efforts to ensure greater respect for Palestine refugee rights.