Community-based Protection (CBP) for Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Persons.
DAN is an implementing partner (IP) of UNHCR since September 2019 to carry out a Community-Based Protection project in Somaliland.
The project has two components of Community based protection and child protection and addresses the needs of refugees and asylum seekers, which amount to 12,543 in Somaliland according to a verification exercises carried out in 2020 by the National Displacement and Refugee Agency (NDRA) and UNHCR. The refugees are from Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA) and Middle East, and North Africa (MENA) , while the Asylum seekers are mostly from HECA. The persons with specific needs, including elderly and persons with disabilities, are also recorded among the target population of concern and their inclusion is ensured and emphasized in assistance delivery.
The community-Based Protection approach is an inclusive partnership strategy that recognizes and builds on the capacities and resources of forcibly displaced and stateless persons, by establishing trust, promoting meaningful participation, consultation and leadership in all aspects of programmes that affect them. It is a continuous process that engages communities as analysts, evaluators and implementers in their own protection.
This project aims to strengthen child protection services and the capacity of targeted communities of forcibly displaced persons to address their own challenges and protection problems through community-based protection (CBP) approach, with community mobilization, psychosocial counseling, vulnerability assessments, community self-reliance and protection, and provision of services to refugees, asylum seekers, persons with specific needs and affected host communities in Somaliland. The project supports their immediate and ongoing needs by facilitating their access to basic assistance, to enhance self-reliance through livelihood opportunities and ensure protection. The community-based protection approach will shift the project ownership from implementing partners to the community, relies on building and strengthening of community structures for self-protection and to identify and respond to the risks of child protection.