Protection

This guide provides an overview of social protection concepts, approaches, issues, debates and evidence, and a selection of key references and signposting to further resources. It primarily focuses on longer-term developmental social protection rather than humanitarian responses, and on low-income countries, including in contexts of shocks, and draws on other income contexts where appropriate.

On July 11, 2023, the Protection Cluster South Sudan (PC) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, conducted a rapid protection assessment exercise in three locations identified as arrival points for South Sudanese returnees who recently arrived from Sudan in Juba County. The teams consisted of UNHCR staff members and UNHCR’s implementing partner staff from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Humanitarian Development Consortium (HDC). The purpose of the assessment was to get an idea of the situation of the returnees and IDPs at the site.