Centrality of Protection Workshop 2025

The IASC Task Force 1 on the Centrality of Protection (CoP) developed the Benchmarks in 2023-24 as tool to support HCTs in implementing the IASC’s 2016 Policy on Protection in Humanitarian Action (often referred to as the Centrality of Protection). Developed and field tested with several global clusters and HCTs, the Benchmarks are now being rolled out across the IASC and global and country levels. This process is being led by the IASC’s new Community of Practice on the Centrality of Protection (which effectively replaced Taskforce 1). Within this context, the CoP organized a series of virtual workshops for country level coordinators as part of this roll-out. In March-April 2025, Vicki Metcalfe-Hough facilitated three editions of this workshop for the Shelter Cluster coordination teams  which provided an opportunity to learn about the Benchmarks, how cluster coordinators should use them, and to exchange learning on the ways in which we may already be embedding protection in cluster strategies.