GPC
Restrictions on movement, sieges, and other acute access constraints present some of the greatest challenges to delivering protection for and with people affected by crisis. Across diverse operational contexts, protection actors have adapted their approaches to continue reaching affected populations and reducing risks of violence and deprivation through innovative operational models and protection mechanisms, including mobile and remote responses, community-based networks, and protection interventions such as humanitarian evacuations and mine action. This session will showcase practical experiences from country operations, highlighting how protection actors – including Child Protection, Gender-Based Violence, and Mine Action service providers – have enabled protection through tailored approaches and interventions in besieged and hard-to-access areas. The discussion will focus on operational lessons, enabling factors, limitations, risks and the trade-offs involved in maintaining principled protection action and risk-sharing under severe access constraints.