P R O C A P
PROTECTION STANDBY CAPACITY
Recent reviews of humanitarian response have
highlighted protection as a major gap, especially in the
rapid deployment of experienced protection staff to
strengthen and support a UN country team protection
response. ProCap has been developed by OCHA’s
Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division (IDD) to fill
this gap by building a protection stand-by capacity of 100
seasoned protection officers to boost the operational
protection response of UN agencies.
ProCap is a flexible deployment mechanism designed to
increase the number of qualified protection personnel
available for short-term missions, enhance the protection
capacity within NGO standby rosters, and improve the
quality of temporary protection personnel through
additional and comprehensive training.
Management
The ProCap inter-agency Steering Group will provide all project
oversight and is comprised of OCHA, UNICEF, OHCHR,
UNHCR, and an NGO representative.
A ProCap Support Unit has been established within OCHA
and will process all requests for Tier One, track availability
and deployment of Tier Two personnel, organize training,
liaise with UN and stand-by partners, and provide support to
deployed personnel.
During assignment, ProCap personnel in both tiers will be the
responsibility of receiving agencies.
Deployment
Upon a request from a Country Team member and/or
Humanitarian Coordinator, Tier One personnel deployments
will be initially agreed by the ProCap Steering Group and
deployed within 72 hours. Deployments will be made to one of
the protection-mandated agencies (UNHCR, UNICEF,
OHCHR) or to OCHA as necessary.
Deployment of Tier Two personnel will operate through
established stand-by mechanisms between UN agencies and
NGO stand-by partners.
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Objectives for Protection
 Support to protection-mandated agencies and
Country Teams to strengthen operational response.
 Development
of
field-based
comprehensive
protection strategies and appropriately tailored
protection mechanisms and response.
 Increased agency commitment and responsibility to
advocate on behalf of affected populations,
particularly the internally displaced.
Training and Building Capacity
ProCap Capacity
Tier One: A core team of 10 senior experienced
Protection Officers (UN P-5 equivalent), recruited as fulltime surge capacity, on permanent rotation in the field.
Personnel will be recruited and contractually
administered by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC),
offering a competitive UN-equivalent salary and benefits
package designed to attract highly qualified staff.
Tier Two: An enhanced NGO stand-by roster of 90 trained
Protection Officers (P3-P4 equivalent), developed in
collaboration with existing and new NGO stand-by partners.
The ProCap mechanism will seek to better match individual
profiles on standby rosters with Country Team needs. In
addition, ProCap will actively promote diversity in the pool
of available protection officers in NGO stand-by rosters by
supporting increased recruitment of individuals from Asia,
Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Inter-Agency Internal Displacement Division
OCHA-United Nations
1211 Geneva 10, SWITZERLAND
Phone: +41 22 917 2692; Fax: +41 22 917 0608
E-mail: idd@un.org
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OCHA/IDD is working with IASC partners to develop an
intensive training programme for the 90-person standby roster
which will be rolled out on a regional basis in 2006. Training
will focus on field-based protection operations as well as
ensure familiarity with the internal procedures and specific
mandates of participating UN agencies.
Funding
The first phase of ProCap will continue through September
2006. Generous support has been provided against a total
budget of US$4,434,797.
October 2005
Norwegian Refugee Council
P.O. Box 6758, St. Olavs plass
N-0130 Oslo, NORWAY
Phone: +47 23 10 98 00; Fax: +47 23 10 98 01
E-mail: nrc@nrc.no www.nrc.no
Applications for ProCap Tier I, should be sent with a covering letter of interest to procap@nrc.no.