Strategic considerations and justification Sample Clauses

Strategic considerations and justification. 2.1. Context analysis The Middle East region faces the world’s largest forced displacement crisis. The UN estimates that

Strategic considerations and justification. In the 8th year of the protracted crisis situation, the protection needs are increasing while the protection space in host countries narrows. The situation is exacerbated by the depletion of refugees’ resources; continued economic downturn and competition for jobs leading to negative coping mechanisms; the continued burden on services, and fatigue of host governments and host communities. Some protection risks are similar across host communities, while others are context and country specific. The protection issues faced by women and girls and men and boys have different manifestations, and legal barriers impede protection for example from SGBV including child marriage Strategic considerations. With regard to vulnerabilities and the need for protection, the challenges and demands are daunting. Nearly 40% of all Syrian refugee children are not attending schools (750,000 in total in 2017) across all of the Middle East. Vulnerable host community and refugee households are unable to meet basic needs and lack access to decent work opportunities, and therefore turn to negative coping mechanisms. One million Lebanese live below the poverty line, of which 470,000 are children. More than 70 percent of displaced Syrians in Lebanon are living below the poverty line, along with 65 percent of Palestine Refugees in Lebanon and 90 percent of Palestine Refugees from Syria (31,500), who are one of the most vulnerable groups in the region. In the region, refugees face restrictions on movement, family separation resulting in unaccompanied and separated children. Most refugees live in vulnerable urban areas and as a result host communities and national actors are more directly interacting with refugees than if they were living in camp settings. These interactions increase the need for national actors to recognise and respond to refugee protection needs and deliver adequate protection services and redress mechanisms, and for refugees to understand their rights and obligations. With the close daily interactions, the potential for building social cohesion as well as the opposite – i.e. for communities to engage in conflicts that could turn violent is also heightened. In 2016, 17 per cent of the Syrian refugee households were headed by women, and for nearly every indicator of vulnerability, female-headed households fared worse than their male counterparts. Particularly female headed households often have to let their children engage in child labour to support their families. Altho...