OCHA Interagency Protection / Gender / PSEA Project 2024-2025


Switzerland provides a contribution to the inter-agency Protection Standby Capacity (ProCap), the Gender Standby Capacity (GenCap) and the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Standby Capacity (PSEACap). They deploy Senior Protection Advisers to humanitarian field operations, as well as at the global and regional levels. Switzerland will strengthen the capacity of the humanitarian system to deliver better protection, gender equality and PSEA by providing strategic and technical advice to the Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) around the world.

Región/País Tema Período Presupuesto
A nivel mundial
Asistencia humanitaria y RRC
Género
Protección, acceso y seguridad
Violencia sexual y de género
01.01.2024 - 31.12.2025
CHF  2’500’000
Contexto

Humanitarian needs continue to grow and deepen as the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance sets new records. Protection risks continue to increase across the globe, compounded by armed conflicts. Women and girls suffer disproportionally from violent conflicts due to gender-based violence and challenges to gender equality.

Despite commitments and efforts from the humanitarian community to create a humanitarian environment, in which people caught up in crises can safely access protection services and assistance without fear of exploitation or abuse by any aid worker, sexual exploitation and abuse continues to be a dire reality in the humanitarian sector.

In this context of increasing protection needs and widening gender inequality, protection, gender and PSEA continue being underfunded and deprioritized. The Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls (2020) highlight that significant gaps in system-wide gender equality and protection capacities remain. Similarly, the independent review of the implementation of the IASC Protection Policy (2022) recognized the need for increased collective efforts to implement global commitments to achieve gender equality and protection outcomes. The roles of the inter-agency Protection Standby Capacity Project, the Gender Standby Capacity Project and the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Project advisors, are to complement existing capacities in prioritizing gender equality, protection and PSEA in humanitarian action.

Objetivos ProCap, GenCap and PSEACap deploy senior protection, gender and PSEA experts as independent, inter-agency resources to strengthen the protection, gender equality and PSEA programming efforts in the humanitarian system.
Grupos destinarios
  • HCs
  • HCTs
  • UN agencies, in particular WPF and UNHCR
  • NGO consortia
  • Cluster coordinators
Efectos a medio plazo
  1. Deployments: Ensure that protection, gender equality programming, women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming are at the centre of humanitarian action, and improve prevention and response to PSEA in high-risk humanitarian operations through the advisory support to the humanitarian leadership and operations (HCs and HCTs)
  2. Capacity Strengthening: Enhance the capacity of humanitarian decision makers in the area of protection, gender equality and PSEA
  3. Policy influencing and sharing of practice and tools: Inform policy making at global and national level by knowledge sharing and best practice in the areas of protection, gender equality and PSEA
Resultados

Resultados previstos:  

  1. Deployments: Provide senior-level strategic, inter-agency, system-strengthening directly to humanitarian leaders and operations (HCs and HCTs)
  2. Capacity Strengthening: Undertake learning and capacity-building at the global, regional, country and local levels to enhance the centrality of protection, gender equality programming and PSEA
  3. Policy influencing and sharing of practice and tools: Link policy and advocacy with practice through the provision of a practitioner’s perspective in global dialogues, drawing from field-level best practices and lessons learned


Resultados de las fases anteriores:   As part of Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) reforms in 2020, GenCap and ProCap strengthened their focus on field impact, the sustainability of results and the prioritization of support to align with system-wide response priorities. These reforms, the pandemic’s impact, and the projects’ roll-out in the humanitarian community created an uptick in demand. ProCap’s presence was closely associated with progress on strategies and collective efforts to promote and operationalize the centrality of protection in the response. GenCap contributed to the development of comprehensive Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) gender strategies to garner collective action and had an important catalytic effect on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls through humanitarian responses.


Dirección / Officina Federal responsable COSUDE
Contrapartes del proyecto Contraparte del contrato
Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU)
  • Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios


Coordinación con otros proyectos y actores
  • OCHA Core Contribution
  • Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project
  • Contribution to WFP Protection & Accountability to Affected People (AAP) policy implementation
Presupuesto Fase en curso Presupuesto suizo CHF    2’500’000 Presupuesto actual suizo ya emitido CHF    1’500’000
Fases del proyecto Fase 1 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2025   (Fase en curso)