/ 23 © John Torday/ UNRWA archives • Strengthen community-based family and child protection networks to prevent family and community violence and abuse, protect vulnerable groups, and ensure support structures and services for survivors. This initiative will contribute to HDG 1 A long and healthy life and HDG 2 Knowledge and Skills and HDG 4 Human Rights Enjoyed to the Fullest. More specifically to strategic objectives 2, 6 and 14: • • • Protect and promote family health; Improve access to education opportunities for learners with special education needs. Strengthen refugee capacity to formulate and implement sustainable social services in their communities. Engineering Protection Interventions For UNRWA, protection is an integral part of a holistic approach to meeting refugee needs in education, health, relief and social services, microfinance and infrastructure and camp improvement, and to securing all their rights. One aspect of UNRWA protection strategy is to ensuring that protection needs are addressed in all aspects of programming and that services are delivered in a manner that promotes and respects the rights of beneficiaries and ensures the security and dignity of beneficiaries and of UNRWA personnel23. While the conditions of UNRWA installations are an essential element in the provision of safe, dignified and accessible services, a protection audit conducted in February 2011 in 91 UNRWA Education, health and Administrative facilities indicated the need to improve UNRWA infrastructure dignity, safety and accessibility standards. As a result, UNRWA is planning to implement in 2012-2011 the following Engineering protection-related interventions: • • • 55 UNRWA school, clinics and office Installations provided with access ramps for the physically impaired persons. 55 UNRWA school, clinics and office Installations provided with separate men and women toilets and toilets for the physically impaired persons 55 UNRWA school, clinics and office Installations provided with emergency exits & fire escapes This initiative contributes to HDG 4 Human rights enjoyed to the fullest extent possible, more specifically to strategic objectives 12. 23 Protection in and through service delivery”, is a term used by Nicholas Morris in his 2008 report, “What Protection Means to UNRWA”. Protection “in” service delivery refers to the most fundamental level of protection mainstreaming which ensures that all UNRWA programmes deliver services in a manner that ensures the security and dignity of beneficiaries and UNRWA personnel. Protection “through” service delivery refers to the identification of programme options that are specifically designed and targeted to advance the rights of beneficiaries

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