enhance equal access to AAP for forcibly displaced and stateless persons of different ages, genders, and backgrounds, through enhanced community outreach and engagement. It is in this context, that the MENA AAP Toolkit (the “Toolkit”) advances UNHCR’s commitments to AAP with contextualized guidance to UNHCR country operations and partners in the MENA region and Türkiye and addresses key AAP challenges identified by UNHCR’s Approach to AAP – a Synthesis of Evaluative Evidence. Importantly, the Toolkit introduces digital participatory interventions and Two-Way communication tools to reach all population groups, particularly those with specific needs. provided to six projects in five countries to strengthen localization through partnership across sectors, including education, child protection, and gender-based violence to people with diverse SOGIESC6 and people with disabilities. To further advance its work on AAP, in 2021, the RB MENA established the internal Mena AAP Reference Group, with representation from the RB and country operations in the MENA region, to guide and support the development of the Toolkit. The Reference Group supported the facilitation of the MENA AAP Summer Learning Series for staff, partners, and communitybased organizations. With the PROSPECTS Partnership, the RB MENA begun to roll out the MENA AAP Grants for community and grassroots organizations, including refugee and women-led organizations. The MENA RB The MENA AAP Toolkit is a key outcome of the efforts of the RB MENA, the MENA AAP Reference Group, and UNHCR, partners, and communities in the MENA region. The Toolkit is a living document intended to facilitate access to practical and contextualized tools for the establishment and implementation of AAP mechanisms by UNHCR and partners across the MENA region. The RB MENA and the MENA AAP Reference Group will support the dissemination, implementation, monitoring and updating of the Toolkit through regular learning sessions and ongoing technical support. In 2022, UNHCR and partners continued to make progress on the development and implementation of AAP strategies and interventions in the MENA region, with renewed focus on enhancing effective, equal, and inclusive access to digital and face-to-face AAP tools, improving consolidated AAP analysis, and increasing participation of youth and people with specific needs. 1.2 Toolkit Overview UNHCR’s AAP approach is based on four AAP Core Actions: Participation and Inclusion; Communication and Transparency; Feedback and Response; and Organizational Learning and Adaptation. All regional country, and other resources included in this Toolkit correspond to these Core Actions, as the minimum framework required to achieve accountability to forcibly displaced and stateless people within an AGD approach. 1.3 Toolkit Chapters The chapters of this Toolkit include 26 tools developed and tested in the MENA region to contextualize global AAP guidance. Each chapter introduces a main tool, sub-tools and annexes to support implementation of the main tool. UNHCR and partners across the MENA region and beyond can use the tools and sub-tools – or be inspired by them – to develop their own, and adapt7 to their specific operational contexts. Chapter 6 contains additional 54 AAP resources as well as guidance produced outside the MENA region by UNHCR and partners. It is important to note that no single AAP tool can meet all the needs of different population groups, particularly in constantly changing and dynamic displacement settings. The resources included in this Toolkit are therefore considered most effective when used in a complementary manner. 6 UNHCR master glossary of terms: SOGIESC: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and/or Sex Characteristics. 7 Fourteen projects in eight countries from 2021-2023. This in total, but in 2021 ony 6.