Report

Protection After UN Peacekeeping Mission Departures: Considerations for Protection Actors Navigating Capacity Gaps

Published 26. Jun 2025
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The departure of a UN peacekeeping mission generally means significant reductions of assets and capabilities that can affect many types of protection capacities for the actors who remain on the ground.

This study, jointly commissioned by NRC, CIVIC, and the GPC, looks at how humanitarian and human rights protection actors – that is, UN agencies, funds, and programmes, international non-governmental organizations, and national non-governmental organizations whose mandates or objectives include protection – that remain on the ground can manage the protection gaps that emerge when UN peacekeeping missions depart through the examination of ten specific capacities for which protection gaps are likely to arise.