Maintaining Momentum and Focus on Housing, Land and Property (HLP) through the Humanitarian Reset: Partnerships for Protection, Homes, Land and Shelter

The ongoing 'humanitarian reset' includes plans to change the cluster coordination system, including an end of the four Areas of Responsibility within the Global Protection Cluster. This includes Housing, Land and Property. As of July 2025 the Shelter, CCCM and HLP clusters/AoR have been asked to form a new ‘Land and Shelter’ cluster (name as used in recent IASC communication, but still to be decided).

The HLP AoR is committed to an effective transition ensuring HLP is properly integrated in the new way of working as decided in the coming months. From consultations with HLP AoR colleagues, partners, coordinators it is clear that there are opportunities in this new formulation, and also risks that HLP issues - especially those rooted in protection - could be lost, or less visible in the future arrangements. Early conversations with Shelter and CCCM colleagues have been very positive., We need to be clear and focused to ensure the right breadth of HLP issues and approaches are included for the best possible outcome for affected people.

This note gathers critical HLP issues to be part of this new cluster and ways of working. In particular the HLP AoR imagines a strong continuing connection with the protection cluster1.