Associate Protection Monitoring Officer

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 protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise 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).

The Central African Republic has experienced an acute crisis since 2013 that has caused over 1.5 million people into forced displacement including over 700,000 refugees who fled to neighboring countries, while close to 500,000 persons remained internally displaced. Additionally, as of 31 September 2024, the CAR hosts 52, 582 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly due to the outbreak of war in Sudan and intercommunal fighting in southern Chad adding pressure on scarce resources. In addition to being a host and source country for refugee crisis, more than 48,000 CAR refugees in neighboring countries have been assisted to voluntarily return to the CAR since 2017. While humanitarian needs across the country remain huge, the situation in CAR has, for years, been one of the most consistently overlooked and underfunded emergencies in the world, forcing UNHCR and its humanitarian partners to reduce critical activities. UNHCR is leading the response to Sudanese refugees in collaboration with the National Commission on Refugees (CNR), and the humanitarian community including local NGO’s, INGOs and UN agencies. UNHCR and its partners continue to advocate with the authorities for refugees to be integrated in national services to promote inclusion and sustainable programing. On the IDP front, UNHCR is the Lead of the Protection Cluster as well as co-leads the CCCM and Shelter/NFI clusters. The national cluster is based in Bangui while regional clusters are established in prefectures where UNHCR has a presence. UNHCR’s protection activities in CAR also include the protection monitoring of IDPs and refugees returning to their home areas, as well as their host communities. The protection activities also include protection response to identified protection risks and a strong community-based approach in support among others of social cohesion. The UNHCR CAR operation seeks synergies between its protection interventions and interventions under the Camp Management/Camp Coordination (CCCM) as well as non-food item and shelter interventions. Regarding return and durable solutions, UNHCR CAR facilitates the return of refugees as well as their reintegration. UNHCR co-leads with UNDP, IOM and OCHA the Working Group on Durable Solutions.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Senior Protection Officer or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer Associate Protection Monitoring Officer will:

- Ensure the management of the project in Bangui and in the field is to the highest standards of quality and integrity.
- Working closely with the protection staff in Bangui and in the field, and with protection partner staff to ensure timely and quality data is collected and compiled.
- Contribute to the development of project proposals, concept notes and budgets.
- Support the production of protection monitoring reports and carry out regular analysis.
- Contribute to the development and adaptation of protection monitoring tools. Liaise closely with the Information management Unit to ensure that IM tools, procedures and products support the smooth operationalization of the project.
- Liaise closely with the Programme Unit to address programmatic needs in a timely manner.
- Follow up on protection risks and incidents.
- Keep abreast of all protection related developments to prepare appropriate briefings and reports.
- Participate in all relevant coordination fora as required.

Results/Expected Outputs:

• Protection trends and risks identified in a timely manner and reported to management.
• Internal and external analyses and high-quality ad-hoc and regular reports prepared in a timely manner.
• All reports and IM products reviewed.
• Manage alerts on the population movements/displacements and protection incidents for timely interventions.
• Development of project implementation management dashboard.
• Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment.
• Provide the senior management with accurate analysis and ensure the follow-up of the decisions.
• Accuracy of data ensured, and high-quality analysis produced.
• Evidence made available, analysed, and supports the response in the field by UNHCR and partners, programming for protection as well as advocacy for protection.
• Field operations and partners are adequately supported.
• As an active UNHCR team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered UNHCR and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:
• Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment.
• A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed.