Who we are
The Protection Standby Capacity Project (ProCap) is an inter-agency initiative created in 2005 in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which seeks to build global protection capacity and enhance the humanitarian system’s protection response.
ProCap aims to strengthen the collaborative response of protection and non-protection mandated organisations and supports the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Principals’ Statement on the Centrality of Protection in Humanitarian Action.
What we do
ProCap deploys senior personnel with proven protection expertise to field, regional and global operations and trains mid-level protection staff from Standby Partners and UN Agencies.
ProCap Advisors deploy as an interagency resource to support Resident/ Humanitarian Coordinators (RC/HC), UN agencies, and integrated missions. ProCap Advisors work in humanitarian emergencies, caused either by disaster or conflict; protracted or neglected crises; and in transitional contexts.
Highlights in 2016
In 2016, ProCap supported deployments to 18 field locations at the field and regional level including to all L3-declared crises (South Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen) and with guidance provided to a range of protection interventions in CAR, Burundi, Pakistan and Haiti.
Country-level achievements include a ProCap adviser leading the process to develop a HCT Protection strategy in Yemen; delivering capacity building initiatives in the Central African Republic (CAR) on protection mainstreaming for 60 programme managers from the UN, international organisations, INGOs and NNGOs; and, in Burundi, taking a lead role in developing a protection strategy and work plan to guide efforts to place protection at the centre of programmatic responses, in particular, promoting the safety and dignity of beneficiaries.
ProCap provided support to 14 countries through OCHA’s Regional Office in Fiji. This deployment integrated protection concerns into disaster preparedness, response and recovery activities through the support provided to the Pacific Humanitarian Protection Cluster (PHPC), and the Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT).
ProCap in Nairobi provided support to humanitarian leadership, regional bodies and clusters operating in the emergency situations in Eastern Africa, namely Burundi, South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia, on prioritising protection and durable solutions for IDPs in guidance frameworks and humanitarian action.
At the global level, in collaboration with the Global Protection Cluster, ProCap developed the IASC Protection Policy in support of the IASC Statement on the Centrality of Protection. A ProCap adviser, hosted by UNDP/Geneva, created an operational guide towards developing joint strategies for durable solutions for IDPs and returning refugees and conducted a mission to Afghanistan, advising the government on a coordination structure to develop mid and long term solutions to IDPs and returnees.