Communities have the upper hand when it comes to protection. Community members understand the local context and have the necessary resources and connections to organize self-protection activities better than international aid organizations. For example, local communities have relationships with armed groups that international actors cannot simply replicate. Moreover, international organizations are often constrained by security risks or their inability to access remote areas in ways that locals are not. One starting point for enhancing the humanitarian community’s understanding of self-protection is Results-Based Protection (RBP). RBP is an approach to protection work that aims to better achieve protection outcomes, i.e. the... Read more →
