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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:
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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:
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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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