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Apr

22

Access and Humanitarian Protection: Lessons from restricted operational contexts and their application to the COVID-19 operational environment

22 April 2020

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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EVENT DETAILS

Registration Deadline

April 22, 2020

Venue

Online

Website

https://phap.org/22apr2020

ROLES

Lead Facilitator

Angharad Laing

Guest Speaker

Yasin Abbas
Jason Hepps
Pilar Gimeno Saciada
Sophie Solomon

Read more and register at phap.org/22apr2020

Humanitarian protection is often the most needed in the very conflict zones where access is also the most restricted. Whether in areas controlled by armed groups or government forces, in situations when civilians have their basic rights and physical safety threatened, humanitarians carrying out protection work and advocacy are likely to face actors trying to restrict their access and ability to operate, or simply keep them out.

In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to sudden changes in how protection actors can access populations of concern, with additional restrictions on how they are able to operate in the short and medium term. What can we learn from the experience of protection actors operating in hard-to-reach areas that we can apply to the new challenges of the current operational environment?

Join us on 22 April for the first of a series of webinars on access and humanitarian protection organized by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), PHAP, and the Global Protection Cluster (GPC). We will begin with an overview of the key terms, concepts, interlinkages, and dilemmas of protection and access in armed conflict, disaster, and health emergencies. What are the main protection concerns particular to hard-to-reach areas? What challenges do protection actors face in terms of access? Are maintaining access and protection priorities at cross purposes or can they help reinforce each other? We will follow this introduction with a discussion with protection experts, exploring the ways in which existing lessons from protection programming in hard-to-reach areas can be applied to protection operations in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Event time:
New York: 08:00 – 09:30
London: 13:00 – 14:30
Geneva: 14:00 – 15:30
Amman: 15:00 – 16:30
Nairobi: 15:00 – 16:30
Bangkok: 19:00 – 20:30
Manila: 20:00 – 21:30

EVENT DETAILS

Registration Deadline

April 22, 2020

Venue

Online

Website

https://phap.org/22apr2020

ROLES

Lead Facilitator

Angharad Laing

Guest Speaker

Yasin Abbas
Jason Hepps
Pilar Gimeno Saciada
Sophie Solomon