Joint NGO Briefing Note on Community Engagement for Protection

(Published Oct. 9, 2015) While engaging with communities has been a priority for peace operations since 2010, there is a significant gap between rhetoric and implementation. A greater effort needs to be made to ensure engagement with civilians is actually happening on the ground. A number of NGOs that work on protection of civilians, including FIDH, the Global Centre for R2P, IRC, World Vision, Oxfam, PAX, Refugees International and Nonviolent Peaceforce, issued a briefing note with their recommendations on how to operationalize community engagement for protection. While they are welcoming the mention of community engagement in the report of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations and the Secretary-General’s Plan of Action, they also want to encourage the UN to implement the necessary changes to ensure that peace operations effectively adopt a people-centred approach.

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