Each year, the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) organizes a virtual Global Protection Forum with partners and field coordinators to review emerging challenges, lessons, and opportunities in relation to the protection of communities affected by conflict and disaster. The public Forum is open to the broader protection community and serves as a platform for dialogue on current protection priorities. The 2025 Global Protection Forum will take place from 10-14 November 2025, through an online platform with simultaneous interpretation in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

This year’s Forum will focus on the protection space within the current context of humanitarian prioritization and funding restrictions. The different sessions aim to foster reflection within the protection community on two central dimensions: first, how to ensure that protection remains at the centre of humanitarian responses and beyond; and second, how to build an integrated protection approach that is inclusive. To this end, the Forum will analyse current trends in protection risks and examine the main threats faced by communities, with particular attention to some of the most challenging crises. It will further consider how protection and the voices of affected populations and local actors is included and prioritized in these responses, and what is required to strengthen this.