Mainstreaming
The overall approach to mainstreaming key areas in refugee response aims at strengthening all components of the response and reinforcing inter-sector linkages while keeping people at the center of all actions, ensuring dignity, safety, inclusion, equality, empowerment, and sustainability. The systematic and coherent efforts to mainstream protection, gender and resilience is crucial to ensure operational comprehensiveness of the coordinated partners' interventions impacting lives of refugees and host communities.
Gender
The response is gender- and age-responsive, by carefully considering gender, age, and disability factors across sectors, ensuring that threats, risks, vulnerabilities, and capacities are identified and mitigated, priorities of different groups are addressed, needs and approaches are factored into planning and programming, and key results are achieved.
Protection
Protection will remain at the centre of planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of all interventions. This commitment ensures that refugees – Syrians and non-Syrians alike – have access to international protection and assistance, while efforts toward durable solutions continue to be prioritized. This approach is guided by the four protection mainstreaming principles: safety and dignity, meaningful access, accountability, and participation and empowerment, which are integrated across all sectors to ensure no one is left behind.
Resilience
Resilience refers to “the ability of individuals, households, communities, institutions, and societies to. withstand shocks and stresses, recover from such stresses, and. work with national and local government institutions to achieve. The response will rely on the resilience lens and ensure to build and reinforce the referred capacities to generate sustainable solutions.