Protection Analytical Framework

The Protection Analytical Framework (PAF) guides robust, context-specific protection analysis. The PAF helps anyone undertaking protection analysis to answer the following questions:

The PAF guides in-depth and ongoing protection analysis of the crisis environment. It informs decision making for multisectoral and multi-disciplinary strategies that reduce and prevent protection risks that may violate international human rights and refugee and humanitarian laws. It is suitable for use across humanitarian contexts, including with internally displaced people, returnees, refugees, and mixed situations.

The purpose of the PAF

The analytical conclusions are to guide the development of strategies for reducing protection risk. Use it at the outset of a crisis and during a crisis to ensure continuous analysis and adaptation of interventions.

It guides protection-specific situation analysis and the organisation of data and information to provide an “evidence-base for programming, advocacy and dialogue for the purpose of influencing behaviors and policies in support of a more favorable protection environment.”

The PAF was initiated by the USAID BHA-funded IRC-DRC Results-based Protection Analysis Project to contribute to collective efforts of improving and streamlining protection analysis. It was developed together with and with the full support of the Information and Analysis Working Group of the Global Protection Cluster. It has been endorsed by the Global Protection Cluster.