2021
In 2021, UNHCR in Libya will focus on:
- Maintaining preparedness and emergency response capacity, including adequate stock of core-relief items for life-saving interventions; and participating in sector, inter-agency and agency-specific preparedness response efforts to mainstream the centrality of protection and inclusion of refugees and asylum-seekers through protection and shelter and non-food item clusters and the cash and market working group.
- Mobilizing UNHCR protection partners for the provision of emergency support to situations of new displacement, in coordination with relevant sectors.
- Building capacity of local partners and UNHCR staff to improve the rapid assessment/participatory needs assessments, data collection/analysis through protection and protection/return monitoring to inform programming, targeted assistance and evidence-based advocacy.
- Ensuring a coordinated response on protection monitoring across implementing and operational partners.
- Enhancing assistance and support to IDPs at heightened risk, directly, through partners’ interventions or through referrals to State authorities and humanitarian actors.
- Supporting individual protection assistance, including through in-kind or multipurpose cash assistance as well as through services like psychosocial support, for the most vulnerable cases to mitigate the risk of negative coping strategies.
- Providing legal assistance, housing, land and property support and civil documentation support, including for victims of or individuals threatened with evictions.
- Enhancing interventions in areas of IDP return and areas of high displacement to promote resilience, foster social cohesion and support the attainment of solutions.
- Implementing shelter and settlement rehabilitation and small-scale quick impact projects benefiting IDPs, refugees and host communities to support initiatives of social cohesion.
- Strengthening the absorption capacity of public facilities such as schools, health centres and water-supply systems, including through rehabilitation support and donation of the required equipment.
- Fostering relations with and support to Government authorities through consultation on community-based initiatives through quick impact projects aimed to foster social cohesion.
- Capacity-building initiatives targeting municipalities, Crisis Committees and national authorities.
- Supporting authorities in formulating a Government-led and solution-oriented IDP strategy through engagement in process.
- Strengthening UNHCR’s leadership in sector coordination and participation in the inter-agency response to effectively promote the centrality of protection; of age, gender and diversity disaggregated data management (acquire, store, manage, share and use data); and of inclusion of people of concern by maintaining dedicated UNHCR sector coordinators for protection, cash assistance, and shelter and non-food items.
- Reinforcing information management capacity for UNHCR and the cash and market working group as well as shelter and non-food item sectors.
- Distributing hygiene kits, soap and hand-sanitizers to existing and newly vulnerable IDPs, in order to ensure protection from the risk of exposure to the COVID-19.
- Strengthening the COVID-19-related prevention and response capacity of the relevant health facilities through donations of equipment and personal protective equipment.
- Ensuring that protection and assistance services are delivered in a manner that is fully in compliance with the applicable precautionary measures against the propagation of the pandemic.