High-Level Humanitarian Donors Briefing Note: The State of Protection in 2024

This briefing note informs the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) and its Areas of Responsibility (AoRs) Annual Donor Meeting on 01 October 2024. This meeting provides a crucial opportunity for reflection and exchange on the latest protection trends, collaborative actions to address priority risks, and strategies to strengthen the protection of crisis-affected communities. This note coversthe first half of 2024 and trends observed in 2023 with a shared analysis on the current state of protection, highlighting the key drivers of the most severe protection risks affecting communities across the 32 Protection Cluster operations. It also highlights actions taken by clusters and partners on the ground to enhance the protection of communities and outlines ways donors and protection actors – from local to global level – can collaborate more effectively to address the growing protection challenges caused by the overlapping impacts of conflict, crisis and displacement.