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Mission and objectives
UNHCR's primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. In its efforts to achieve this objective, UNHCR strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, and to return home voluntarily.
Context
The Office of the UNHCR was established on 14 December 1950 by the UN General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to pro-tect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safe-guard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exer-cise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country (www.unhcr.org).UNHCR North Kivu Operation covers refugee protection, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), returnees and other affected populations. There are estimated 1,700,000 IDPs in North Kivu following long running clashes between armed groups as well as with Congolese regular army forces. In Grand North Kivu, following the ongoing displacement of populations, Human-itarian action and protection of civilians remain affected by the activism of local and foreign armed groups. In addition, there is a resurgence of conflicts and tensions between different communities. Amidst that turmoil, UNHCR continues to play Its protection leading role, provid-ing protection analysis and response to affected persons as well as coordinating clusters un-der Its responsibility. UNHCR will also reaffirm its engagement through direct response to IDPs needs, with a focus on emergency response, needs assessment and profiling, GBV pre-vention and solutions. Whenever possible, UNHCR will seek to create synergy between its refugee and IDP responses through area-based approach.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of the Head of Field Office UNHCR Beni, and with technical support from the Senior Protection Officer in Goma, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:• Through relationships with persons of concern, authorities and network of partners stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to senior management.• Ensure that the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the persons of concerns are reflected in the protection strategy, planning processes and operations plan addressing the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and olderpersons, persons with disabilities, minority groups such as sexual minorities and persons living with HIV/AIDS;• Utilize the IDPs footprint during the planning process;• Coordinate the promotion of international refugee law principles and standards and also IDP legislation or policies ensuring that all sectors and clusters fulfill their responsibilities mainstreaming protection;• Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of programmes ensuring that identified protection needs, including an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) approach, are adequately addressed;• Provide policy guidance and operational support to UNHCR and partners on all protection related issues;• Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to internal and external interlocutors; ensure legal assistance is accessible to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentsto persons of concern (civil documentation, in particular birth certificates);• Monitor, and assist with the intervention in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents through working relations with governments and other partners;• Assist in the coordinated implementation and oversight of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities;• Ensure that durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement are sought and provided to the largest possible number of persons of concern;• Ensure through direct action and advocacy with more senior protection staff that the necessary resources are allocated to enable protection activities to identify and address protection and assistance gaps;• Support a consultative process with government counterparts at local levels, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement integrated strategies that address the key protection priorities, including, for example, child protection, education and SGBV, and solutions approaches;• Promote confidence building and conflict resolution among populations of concern, authorities and host communities;• Maintain protection presence through regular field missions and reports, making direct contact with persons of concern, host communities, local authorities and partners. In operations applying the humanitarian cluster system, contribute to ensuring that the response of the Protection Cluster is grounded in an AGD-compliant strategy which covers all assessed and prioritized protection needs of the affected populations;• Contribute to the Protection team's information management component which: provide disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems; researches, collects and disseminates relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery and provide technical advice if necessary;• Ensure participatory, community-based protection and AGD approaches are included in, strategies and plans in the country operation;• Support persons of concern to develop structures that enhance their participation and protection.
