Jennifer or Astrid from the gender-based violence area of responsibility. After the introductory remarks, which will be short, Ivan will run us through the agenda of the meeting, where we will have a number of substantive discussions. At the end of the meeting, we will have our colleague Bruno from the mine action area of responsibility, as well as Jim from the housing land and property that will do the closing remarks. I'm getting instant messages that there has been a reshuffling. It seems that Bruno will do introductory messages instead of Jennifer, and then at the end, housing land and property and GBV will be the ones closing down. Thanks a lot, Julia, for these instant messages and apologies, Bruno. It seems I've got the order wrong. So we are always happy to be led by you. You're the boss. Thank you very much. Whatever you ask me to do, I will do. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome Bruno. So today, the purpose of today's webinar is really to first ensure we have a common understanding of the key elements and approaches for the 2021 HPC. We want to present and discuss key elements and proposed approach for the intersectoral part as well as the sectoral part. Based on the feedback and the discussion, we will finalize the global guidance that will be shared with you as last year in writing. Differently from last year, the guidance that will go out this year will be going out clearly from us as AORs and GPC, but also from OTSHA to ensure that there is alignment of interpretation at the field level. Also today, we would like to outline the support and resources that will be available to you from the global team to support. You might remember that last year we had done a collective AORs and GPC support for operations basically to ensure we're able to cover all operations as well as a signal and sign of the harmonized approach we have now established for over a year in the cluster including the AORs. But let me zoom out a bit and highlight five key things for today. First, the protection component of the HPC seems to be interesting when we look at the fact that we need our sectoral part, we need our intersectoral part, and it has been evolving over the last few years. What we're advocating for for this year as I've said in many of the regional calls is a simplified HPC process considering that this year is challenging and we have the revision of last year's HNO and HRP, we have the GHRP for COVID, many of you are doing additional appeals and we have the planning cycle for next year. So we're really trying to, we tried and we succeeded to have a simplified GF guidance that will be going out I believe this week and we're really pushing that there are no major changes that are introduced in this year process. So we use similar starting points like last year, for example no changes in costing methodologies etc. I can see, I can hear that someone is unmuted. I would ask maybe Yvonne to monitor who that is and tackle it to ensure that the sound is good. So that's the first message. The second message is that we want that the analysis of protection risks, violations and harm to be jointly done across AORs but also with other sectors and we can see definitely with health, with food security, with wash, clear linkages dimension that we're seeing this year but we want to ensure that one this is done and two in the narrative beyond the numbers we get stuck often in the pin and the figures and that's very important but in the narrative it should appear as really clearly established. In the crisis that you have where protection is central that is central part of the problem and the analysis is regarding protection. So we have worked within the this GAG to ensure that the analysis of protection risks the threats and the vulnerabilities are key in the GF HNO methodology that will go out as I said this week. But particularly to define the scope of the humanitarian crisis and response, priority affected geographical areas which is very important for our overall trend to go for area-based approaches as well as populations groups which is crucial for our sector, for our cluster. Of course we have children related issues that are established within an AOR but of course within the COVID we've seen that issues related to women, to elderly people, to youth beyond the child age and to persons with disability are the current context of protection issues, conflict and COVID are creating specific needs or exacerbating specific needs for these specific groups and as such we want that to be established. The third point and probably that's a most important one, as it stands today protection in general represents around 8% of the overall asks in the HRP for last year on average. Out of these 8% as it stands today, 8% or 9% are funded. So we are as a result of this whole HPC process. We are underrepresented and we are underfunded within this underrepresentation and this is not acceptable. We are I would say in a funding crisis when it comes to protection. And our choice for this year is not to disengage because this process is not productive for us. I think we want to give a serious attempt to push the process for this year to lead into a quantum leap of better representation and better funding for next year humanitarian program cycle. And when I say 8% of the general HRP is for protection, the situation becomes even more dire when you look from a child protection angle or from a GBV angle or mine action or HLP or and these I would argue are the lucky one, lucky type of protection challenges because they have an established and productive AORs. Things like elderly people, disability, trafficking to name a few are even more underrepresented and underfunded. So we have a big task ahead of us. And to do that we want you to be very present in the HPC cycle in the HRP. And what we're doing is we're really pushing hard with the international arena with the donors to focus on protection this year. And in December as part of our global protection forum, we will have at the back of the launch of the GHO, we will have a senior high level panel where we will bring together all the sectoral chapters of the HRPs across the world and really challenge the donors to really fund all of them. And I want to propose today three targets to you. And they're not established in a scientific way as we speak, I'm putting them forward as an indicative way that warrants a better study and a better approach from our side. But for now where I want us to think is protection, including all the AORs, should at least be between 15 to 20 percent of the overall HRP science. We would like also to see that at least 50 percent in all operations of our asks is met next year. And we will be by your side to push in this direction. In addition, we want to see other sectors creatively and intentionally putting a chunk of about 5 percent of their asks, and it could be more for some sectors, to be supportive of protection related issue or for mainstreaming protection within their programs. So we really want to have a major push there and we're counting on a very good quality of the HRPs and the HNOs for this year to have one last punch before changing tactics around this issue. My fourth point is that we should definitely and I want we should finish with the issue of reinforcing our efforts to ensure inclusivity and people-centered HNOs and HRPs. Enhanced efforts to ensure the inclusivity through disaggregated analysis and differential impacts of the crisis on diverse groups should be there. No question. We count on you to push for that. And enhanced efforts to consider priorities of affected population, to inform the analysis and response through better communication and engagement with communities, especially in the inaccessible parts that you're dealing with, especially through the reality that COVID is putting on the place. Connection and communication with communities becomes our major protection channel, protection response channel, and as such should be throughout the project cycle. And many of you have done so well on that in the past. We need to keep pushing in this direction. And finally, that's another area where we need to get it done and over. All HPCs, HNOs and HRPs should aim to systematically include an AOR-specific section in the protection cluster chapter, as well as specific address within the HRP. It has to, we have to meet 100% in all our operations. And we're counting on you on that. And I want to push the challenge a bit further. In addition to the AORs, strong representation as we have strong machineries to feed the analysis and do that, there are other types of protection challenges that I would like to responsibility all of you, AORs and protection clusters, to focus on and make sure they're visible in your analysis, in the protection cluster chapters, but also at the interagency level. Protection of civilians, anti-trafficking, mental health and psychosocial support, protection of older persons and persons with disability. These areas should be our collective responsibility to ensure the visibility of these challenges across our protection chapters, again, and the intersectoral chapter. And with this, I want you to always keep in mind, there will be challenges, again, this year. Whenever it becomes too heated, remember that developing that plan is not the only job we have. That's only a planning thing. And sometimes letting go of some stuff could be the right option. What's most important is that as a result of this process, the relationship and collaboration for the response between us, AORs and PC, as well as the clusters that we were closest to become strengthened and not shaken by a lot of bad feelings. If I can put it in a very simple way, the HPC should have a good aftertaste, and would be great if we can hear from you how we can get that done. I close here, and I want to hand over to Bruno, who has a couple of messages. Thank you, Mr Chair. Actually, things are changing so rapidly in this world. The next person is Michael, under your leadership. It's Michael Stern. Thank you. Thanks a lot, Bruno. Thanks, Bruno. Thanks, William. Just checking that you can hear me. Loud and clear. Go ahead. Great. Thanks, William. And thanks for the introduction. I'm going to be brief because we've got a lot to cover. So just to start with a couple of comments on what William has mentioned, and to give it maybe some examples. The first one is around priorities for affected populations, and how we work with those populations in defining not just what the needs are, but the response. So that's about participation in action, and many of you are involved in the discussions around accountability to affect a population. So thinking about this year and what that means, particularly in terms of remote participation for places where that direct participation is challenging because of COVID, but also thinking about the design and the implementation and working with communities. And we know there's so many good practices out there, and we'll talk about field support later on, but collecting those good practices and sharing them, but also guidance around that participation, something that we're all working on, and we'll support you with. Also in terms of that joint analysis that William talked about, joint and integrated analysis. Within the protection cluster, we've got lots of good examples, for example, between mine action and child protection, or we're working with education, mine action and child protection, work that's happening across GBV and child protection, and also William mentioned food security, and I wanted to stress that for this year, there's a lot of emphasis on food security, which on the one hand is understandable, but on the other hand there's a risk that we will overlook protection, or that we'll go backwards to a situation where protection is not central, but seen as secondary. So I think in terms of improving the profile of protection and in doing so, mobilizing resources, all of those links, for example, around coping strategies, forced and early child marriage, for example, having that analysis and doing that together with those other sectors, William also mentioned health and so on. I think that's going to be critical. It's always critical, but very critical this year that we're able to demonstrate that we can do that integrated analysis. William talked briefly about space and specificity for the AORs, and we've come in at around 70 to 75 percent. We need to be at 100 percent. We're working with Ocha, and we will share messaging with you that you can also use at country level, not just around the specificity, but also the tracking within the response planning module and project modules for FTS. And this is really important because it allows disaggregation of the reporting and tracking, and that's important, particularly for the AORs and their accountability to those cluster lead agencies and to donors as well. It's very important. We know previously we've had to work sometimes country by country with Ocha on that, and we hope that some of this messaging will help to get us more consistency across the different settings. Also, just so you know, we're working closely with Ocha to make sure that we've got systematic, harmonized approaches around the HPC tools. That was a challenge last year, we know, and we heard your feedback. Again, we're going to hear about field support and collectively how we're ready to step in and support you with that, but also other issues. In terms of the sign off for the projects, also just to reference that this is important in the RPM that we have the AORs signing off. This is critical again for their accountability. I've talked a bit about integrated and multi-sectoral responses. The material that's going to be presented to you and a huge thanks to Yvonne from the Protection Cluster who's worked with all of the AORs so effectively so that we've got a coherent approach where there's really an emphasis on working with other sectors to demonstrate protection issues. I think that's going to be, I think that's really important and will help us in our efforts around centrality of protection. Donors, again, we need to do better in terms of our funding situation, but I wanted to highlight something, not just around the amount of funding that we're receiving, but the amount of funding that we're asking for. And I know at least for child protection, there's been conversations and analysis to try and better understand the framing of the ask and the extent to which that is being preconditioned by donor expectations or indeed agency expectations, because the risk is if we're under asking that very, very small amount we're receiving will look even larger if it's not a needs-based ask. Taking into account perhaps limitations around access, but we need to emphasise the needs-based ask. So again, we're there to support you on that and to help advocate with you and with donors so that we're not under asking. It's one of the greatest risks we have. There's advocacy also at the global level, as William mentioned, and the best advocacy is based on field experience. So again, do be in contact with us. I'm going to turn back to Bruno and William. Thanks again for joining us, everyone. Back to you. Thanks a lot, Michael. Messages loud and clear. Over to you, Bruno. I think we might have a sound issue with Bruno. Can you hear me? Over to you. If not, then let me hand over to you, Ivan, to run us through the agenda and then we catch up with Bruno towards the end. Ivan. Sure. Thanks, William. Can you just check in if you can hear me well? Loud and clear. Please proceed. Excellent. Thanks. So first of all, hello everyone. Many thanks for joining today. I hope to have a good discussion with you and hear also from your experiences, challenges, recommendations as we are into the final steps of finalizing guidance, but also to start planning the support required for the HPC season. Thanks particularly to colleagues in the Americas that are joining. I know it's a bit late for you. So quickly on the agenda, I mean, after this initial introduction and key messages from the global coordinators, we'll go to quickly go through the key elements of the HPC process, particularly regarding H&Os, HRPs, some of the key expected changes for this year and then some key recommendations we want to share with you for this year based on also the review, lessons learned, but also trying to address some of the challenges we know you experienced during last season. So hopefully this will be 20 minutes or so. And then we want to open for a discussion and feedback from your side from all the different operations. We will have a small break. Hope is, please don't disconnect, continue connected just to recharge energies. So that will be I think around 4.15, 4.20 that we will have it. And then we'll, the last session will focus more on the H&O guidance, the expected plan changes to the intersectoral and sectoral analysis and some key recommendations from our side. And again, we'll have an opportunity to hear feedback from you and finish just with some closing wrap up and next steps regarding the expected guidance and support from the global level for this season. So without further delay, let me start with the HPC process. So last season we had over 28 countries with H&Os of among all the operations where closer sectors or working groups is active. This included through three late additions. The Central American countries that produce an H&O just recently and 25 of them. So except the countries in Central America had an HRP. Three are not yet published, but most are already reflected in the global humanitarian overview. Overall, we're talking about 96 million people in need of protection, which is compared to the total people in need protection in those operations is close to 70%. And of that we are targeting roughly half of a bit more than half of those. And as William was mentioning, well, the original requirements before COVID were around 1.7 billion. And now after the revisions to HRP or a specific attendance to billion in protection requirements from key highlights from the review and the conversations and the exchanges we've been having with you, but also revisions of the documents at the global level. Protection concerns were and the analysis of it was systematically featured in the intersectional narrative. As we will see, there is a discussion about the consequences and the protection pillar, but in the narrative, which is also particularly important for protection was was systematic included. And as you might be aware, every year there is an independent scoring process of HNOs and HRPs. And this was actually one of the elements that was the highest in this process that was conducted by donors and some key agencies. We also saw that the protection analysis in sectoral chapters was also solid and including in the majority of cases, not all, AOR specific sections, narrative analysis and figures, both in HNOs and HRPs. However, not yet in all of them. So I think as Michael was saying, this is one and William, this is one of the areas that we want to keep working and recommending that for this season, we ensure that all HNOs and HRPs include these specific sessions. Enhance also disaggregated analysis and figures by Sex, Gender, Asia and disability, cross-cutting also as is now mandatory in most of the HNOs. In the HRPs, this analysis is a bit more limited. But yeah, it was cross-cutting across both the sectoral and the sectoral specific analysis. Again, as mentioned, the majority of HRPs included specific sections and requirements for the areas of responsibilities and included priorities, but again, not all. And we also saw an increased reference within the HRPs to integrated programming as the examples that Michael was saying. And we also think, I mean, based also on the CISONLA and the support last year, I think there was a good approach in collaboration communication between the national clusters and the HRPs with the global team, with the GPCIRs, particularly during the season of needs analysis of HNOs, but also across throughout the year. But I think this is also one of the key messages for this year that we hope to be providing this continuous communication and support to you throughout the whole cycle. But obviously we also saw some, let's say challenges, starting with, yeah, obviously the new approach for severity and needs analysis, both for sectoral and sectoral, is dependent also on data availability, which, yeah, for protection, we still need to reinforce and mainstream and harmonize. The mixed approach, the mixed messages about the sectoral, severity analysis and pink calculations, the confusing guidance from headquarters on the AC pillars, the confusing guidance from Ocha on this, and also even the lack or the lazy guidance for pink calculations, but also lack of the guidance for the JAF, which is something that has been addressed as a priority for this year. We also saw that, yeah, for the protection chapter, we see that, again, majority are now including the specific sessions for AORs, but obviously we see challenges in the limited space that the protection sector or cluster have, usually sometimes limited to two pages that everything has to fit, but I know some of you managed to advocate and secure an extended section. The title headlines, well, yeah, I think this is a recovering obvious challenge and some challenges with the management of projects of mission that is also one of the key priority areas that we hope to be supporting you this year. And as William and Michael also were mentioning the diversity in the representation or the percentage of protection funding requirements on the total HRP requirements, yeah, from some operations, several operations below 5% to others that, yeah, even beyond 20 or 30%. So, yeah, as William mentioned, something to work for this year. And finally, again, as Michael was mentioning the different approach for the setup of HPC tools, I'll go in more detail on that. There was an agreed approach last year with Ocha here at the headquarters level that we understand was interpreted differently by the different offices and created challenges for you. So this time we're hoping that the message is clear and harmonized and this is implemented in a systematic manner. Some of the key changes, to be honest, the idea, as William mentioned in not only what we have been advocating but also the global clusters and agencies is for a simplified approach. We know that there is a multiplicity of processes at the same time this year, the challenges of COVID. So the fundamental elements of the approach and the templates will remain largely the same. There will be some changes to simplified or merge objections and obviously some of the changes related to the approach for joint intersection analysis, which will go in the second part of the webinar. This time, as again, there will be a guidance on the joint intersectional framework. It is expected and is recognized also by all partners and I think it has been also communicated to donors. The availability of data, which is usually a challenge this year with COVID will be even a greater challenge. So the use of secondary data that is available, expert judgment will be even more important. And yeah, one of the main changes, not versus 2020 but versus the process for this year with the GHRP is that COVID-19 response or needs impacts that should be integrated for the next year. This time will be integrated as the message received from OSHA into the 2021 HPC. Still need to see how that exactly is placed out in the guidance that are being finalized at the global level. And finally an increased focus on risk analysis and projections, which was also one of the changes on the HPC approach but this time even also more relevant to the current situation of COVID will be a specific focus and there is also a specific guidance being prepared to support operations on that. So in terms of key areas of focus I think this some I will go quick because most were covered by William Michael in the introduction of messages but yeah and some are messages that we were also part of the guidance and key messages we shared for last year that are maintained and reinforced for this year such as the active or lead role we expect from protection clusters in the OS to ensure this interactive protection is properly reflected in the analysis in the response prioritization and hopefully the new guidance that we will explain a bit more in the second part will contribute to that. The continued efforts and enhanced efforts to ensure inclusivity, people-centered approaches based also on affected population priorities and concern. As we were mentioning the visibility of the specific analysis of AORs or other key areas of protection and yeah the other ones I think we also touch upon during the first part the harmonized approach for HPC tools we will go a bit more in detail about that just now. The need for comprehensive planning approaches based on the operational footprint and the benchmarks that William was explaining and the focus on integrated programming. Lastly and it will not necessarily be covered in this webinar but happy to hear also your thoughts during the discussion. We know also we need to enhance and harmonize our response framework and response monitoring systems. There is an increased focus particularly now with COVID as you probably are experiencing with tight demands on information reporting on progress of the HRPs and of the response plans and we know that we also from the global level need to provide more guidance and support on that area. Here so you don't get bored with my voice the whole afternoon I will give the floor to Ricardo hope you can hear us well who's going to quickly run on the importance and guidance for disability inclusion in the HRPs. Ricardo can you confirm you can hear us? Thank you. Can you hear me Van? Yes perfect go for it. Thank you so well hi everybody I'm working as protection officer on disability inclusion and older age as well for UNHCR and I would like to present briefly why it's important that we are reflecting this intersecting factors of risk within the HNO. Well persons with disabilities first deserve and should be included in protection activities as members of the diversity of the of the community they are part of and recognizing as well that disability is a shared factor of identity across community groups that require specific protection. For example women one in five women will experience a disability across her life. Children one in ten children have a disability and older people almost half of older people of the population, the global population of older people live with this disability. Now these estimates are based are already almost ten years old they're coming from 2011 from the WHO report on disability in 2011 and what we've seen during the recent years is that the trend that was previously is that persons with disabilities or disability prevalences tends to be higher in situations of conflict and displacement. In the left and right side of the slides you can see that for example in Syria 27% of persons of the population have a disability. This report has more nuanced data having for example in Aleppo cities like Aleppo half or more if I remember well more than half of the population of women have a disability. In Jordan refugees with disabilities amount to 21% of the population and in context as Afghanistan there are more nuanced data where we have severe disabilities that in developing context would be around 2-3% of the population 1-14% almost of the population and moderate disability would be 65% of the population and similarly with children with disabilities would be higher than only 10% would be around 17.3% that to say that disability is over represented in conflict and displacement but it's not only about prevalence what is seen is persons with disabilities of women and children with disabilities are facing as well barriers to access protection and other humanitarian services those barriers include physical barriers to physically access those services receive information about those services being able to communicate and even request for support and then there may be attitude in our barriers as well within our entities, within their families but as well in our own service provision if we can go please to the next slide Ivan so we have been as part of a joint UN initiative with UNICEF WHO, WFP, IOM and other UN entities we've been providing support and developing resources to ensure that HNOS disabilities were including disability and other factors of discrimination within the reports and including if I'm not wrong from 2018 we have learned some lessons from these processes and what we have seen is that a lesson learned and a key achievement is that we start to have persons with disabilities and issues barriers that they faced differentiated from other vulnerable groups if we see in the past we tend to have a wide paragraph saying that well additional protection issues were faced by and then we had a line on different protection issues this is something that has been changing and has allowed for more nuanced analysis but as well protection responses the intersectionality of different factors as I've mentioned has been bringing as well better detail and more rich activities that are owned by different stakeholders because they identify that persons with disabilities are part of their own population of concern if they are working on GVV or if they are working on child protection they start to see that women with disabilities children with disabilities are part of their own populations we've seen that is really key that the participation of persons with disabilities engagement with organizations of persons with disabilities of disability specialized organizations that are present in country has really made a difference in having an ownership of their focal points a technical input in the analysis of data and as well in the formulation of protection responses and activities while keeping into account that they should not be put all the burden of solving let's say the situation that this population face they do not have the capacity to address all these issues is shared responsibility as it has been shared by our leadership in the introduction but it is true that they may have the expertise that can bring a solution and change data collection as I have said there is starting to be more and more data collection processes there may be dedicated surveys the survey for example in Jordan was part of the vulnerability assessment framework run by UNHCR but the other two services were dedicated surveys on disability so to understand the prevalence in country those exercises can be as well complimented in monitoring efforts and in post distribution for example post distribution monitoring or access in registration of services etc different sources can be used and what is important is that using this global surveillance of 15% should only be used when we don't have resources or when the data in country is lower in some countries we see 2-3% shared by national statistic office those are not real or realistic numbers the disability tends to be underestimated and finally in terms of solutions well what would be better is always counting on a twin track having ensuring that protection is equally accessed by persons with disabilities that we are working on the barriers their face if we address communication barriers if we address physical barriers we will have a better access not only by persons with disabilities but by many other users of our services and then having dedicated actions for example outreach being sign language interpreters on call in certain cases or in certain services that require sensitive translation etc so to ensure their inclusion and where we can find this information if we go into the next slide Ivan so in this slide we summarized some of the related resources on the first segment on the top you can see some guidance related in particular to integrating disability into HNO and HRPs they are all accessible online and the slides will be shared there's guidance but as well tips it's more reduced let's say information bits there's a webcast that we did last year or dedicated to inclusion into HNO HRPs if you want to have more detail and walk through the process and then in terms of the response so once we have the data once we have collectively resourced all that information we can formulate activities using the second segment we have the IAC guidelines on inclusion of persons with disabilities that have been recently released last year there are dedicated agencies guidelines for example UNICEF booklet UNHCR has a need to know guidance as well on inclusion of persons with disabilities so we can look as well at our agencies mandate and look at those resources and then there are dedicated services as well or resources on COVID that has been recently developed the notes on applying these guidelines so the IAC guidelines into COVID response is already available so we can share that and that is all I am welcome comments or questions from your side thank you Ivan Thank you very much Ricardo for these very useful recommendations and resources that we will make sure to share with all I'll just go quickly to the other points just a couple more and then open for discussion I think while this message was already reiterated in the introduction and before but one of the key areas to keep ensuring that this time we move from roughly 75% of documents that include these specific analysis to all of them obviously according to the AORs that are active in each operation but also to make sure that we don't leave behind in the narrative knowing that this is a very tight discussion for the document other key protection areas but for the specific AORs since the hands approach allows for a specific session with the figures in the HNO in this case specific figures and HRP specific target requirements and number of partners or projects and then on the topic we were just mentioning before this we are hoping to work with Ocha to send a joint message to all Ocha offices and also to you as clusters and AORs so everyone is clear on the standardized approach that was agreed for last year and that will still be the recommended approach for this year when it comes to the RPM we are going to have one field cluster or coordination entity that will be called protection where we will have the associated framework of objectives and indicators but then that will be associated to what in the system and this is just language that the system need to use what is called global sectors which in this case should be the exact language as it is included here that we saw that some operations did follow that for last year but in some others we understand that we are receiving different replies from Ocha colleagues in the field so this is the setup for RPM and that will allow that in projects module the owners of the projects can submit to that single field cluster but then can divide the percentages of the financial requirements across these subsectors that will be activated according to each context and that will allow that later about in the system but also more importantly in FTS we can have a disaggregated reporting but also aggregated for the whole cluster both options to be reporting tracking the specific and overall requirements and the message also is that this should be allowed both for a project and activity based costing and colleagues and Ocha are working on a technical solution to ensure this so just to finish before opening for questions the expected interagency guidance so by mid-July so end of next week is expected that the HPC step by step guidance will be shared with the field this will be accompanied by a specific or annex guidance one and the one that has been discussed the longest and will touch upon the second session the joint intersectional analysis guidance but also guidance on risk analysis and projections on prioritization response analysis and targeting and on monitoring the monitoring might be delayed a bit and at the interagency level also expected to have additional guidance on costing methodologies and HPC tools management and then also develop tailored trainings all this obviously has been delayed because of the discussion on the main guidance but also the situation due to COVID and from the GPC side as was also mentioned from William will be also sharing at the parallel a few days after the sectoral guidance for HNOS that is aligned to the new approach or to the enhanced approach for this year and then will be working to develop also another specific sectoral guidance on HRP with specific recommendations on key issues that we I mean this key messages that we will be reiterating but also some key specific guidance on targeting prioritization costing and response frameworks and projects management that we also have heard from you that is that is something expected and that will be useful and be organized in also additional webinars there is as you know within the Global Protection for a session of thematic technical webinars mostly in September but we will be also discussing the need and usefulness of having additional specific webinars for these different elements and obviously started dedicated as soon as possible or as at the moment remote and field support so I'll stop here and open up for questions I know I'll very see one in the chat box so sometimes Marie Millie but yeah please feel free to raise your hand and we can coordinate the the discussion like that but yes Marie Millie if you want to just make the question for or at least so everyone can hear you and we can start this this part hope you can hear us well. Yes, thanks Ivan can you hear me? Yes, thank you Thank you very much for all of this it's very useful we had a meeting yesterday with the Intel cluster and we started the discussion on the sorry the next HRP and they did mention a recommendation not to use anymore the protection consequence and I was wondering what was the GPC position on that and how we should what position we should have and then what does it mean concretely if we don't have anymore the protection consequence of ensuring the centrality of protection in the strategic objectives thank you Thanks Marie Millie we're going to discuss that about in the second session but just in advance at the moment the the discussions Stan has that for this year and in the sense also to simplify the approach for this year but also to avoid the confliction and complexities of last year around the discussion about the humanitarian consequences that some countries use only two, others three others four which were including as you know physical mental well-being, living standards protection and resilience but there was mixed messages mixed guidance from OSHA and also an emphasis that only living standards and a physical mental well-being will count upon intersectoral pins so the decision for now an agreement from across all the partners and global clusters only to have one intersectoral pin for this year once one figure the pillars and so pillars would only be to help to classify information but there will be only one intersectoral pin and then complemented by the sector with specific pins so this is one thing solved as we will go a bit more in detail in the second part where we consider also that protection the center of protection will be better reflected because what happened last year is that we had this protection pin and protection consequence that mostly we took the lead and ensured that it was the same as the protection pin so it was not so much being central to all the other sectors is that protection will be best ensure the center of protection through the context shocks and impacts analysis with a specific focus on protection risk violations that will inform the identification of priority areas and groups for all the analysis and response so that's where we see and there will be a specific section on that so more on the the intersectoral implication of that but also on the narrative section of the channel HRPs that's for the channel HRPs for the strategic objectives that will be something that we can also discuss but yeah what we saw is that both also address the underlying factors main drivers of the crisis which in many cases obviously is associated to protection pins so that has not been considered only discussions for now or for the HNO analysis so I hope that answers your question but maybe after in the second session we can dig down a bit more on that good any other questions and I'm here and also here one suggestion that we will make sure to to do that we have to have these webinars also in French for the next opportunity so we'll follow up on that for sure Jax please go ahead thank you I try my English can you hear me can I check that you're answering me yes we hear you if you could get closer to the mic that will be also great okay thank you my point was related to maybe the string or the financial tracking I think one of the issues we have is about what is called on the FTS as what design has built cluster multi-cluster project we choose to have and but the thing is I felt there is more money on protection within multi-cluster project so I think it will be better to see what sensitize maybe agencies or partners I don't know from Ocha or which channel but to make sure we sensitize them so there is a way to split those project multi-sectorial it will help us to better collect or to better monitor the instant our request is responded within the HRP and it will be better to see whether they could desegregate or split this taking into account also the part which is channeled to the AORs I think it will help us on the monitoring many thanks Jacques so let me start answering that question but also colleagues the other colleagues from the Ops AORs feel free to complement this indeed has also been very brought to our attention also from other clusters or AORs where also this in the spirit of integrated programming also specific requirements and in a growing trend are being included as multi-cluster or multi-sector projects and that will be important also that the system allows to also track and report and monitor those requests so in our discussion that we are having with OSHA because of the modification of the system that allows to have this tracking by also specific requirements for AOR there will be technically possibility also to start doing that but obviously it's not only for us it will be a discussion that will need to happen with all the other clusters that probably will be also interested in that so we are definitely going to follow up on that with OSHA because we're hearing that a growing trend and an interest to also start tracking these funds that fall in multi-sector projects but yeah I don't know colleagues from the Ops AORs if anyone wants to complement on this no okay then Jax I don't know if that answered your question or yeah like or something from Wasmys or you will like clarification Jax perfect yeah thanks great any other questions or contributions or experiences or challenges you would like to share or also on the as many Emily was also sharing with us on some of the initial communication you have received about the HPC and whether something that we need to be aware or follow up over to you colleagues Jax I see also your hand raised please go ahead if it's a second intervention go ahead yes thank you just on the challenge side I think it's a bit challenging when you are discussing within the within the HCT on the request I'm just thinking about the point to mention about when when assessing the budget need and not underpassing you know I think when we are discussing within the HCT we are actually coming to support and to defend our sexual chapters they used to have a reference they used to refer to to the past years in terms of how many the cluster requested and how many we got they used to to refer to this you know as to say are we over asking or are we asking what we could we will be able to spend during the year and to see also you know the capabilities of our members so it's a kind of of course we are also within the HCT but the point is always well taken we need to be needs based and needs oriented but yeah it's just a challenge when we are discussing within the humanitarian competition I don't know if it's the same for other operations but I think it will be again a challenge but we will do the best we can and refer to you to guide us on this thank you and yes that's a usual challenge that we know happens often the visual cycle about yeah because we're not being funded at the level that we shoot and even compare with other sectors then there is a tendency to either HCTs to have a decision to to keep reducing or limiting the for the next cycle which yeah will be a visual cycle because then you start getting funding again for a limited portion every time so we do yeah that's something that definitely from the global level we're happy to provide support and advocacy as needed so yeah I think this is one of the key points also as William was highlighted so William I don't know if you want to compliment or thank you yes thank you I think also Michael alluded into that I think what's dangerous is that the transition from year to year in terms of the budget size is influenced by the previous year so the moment you have designed your ask last year if the context hasn't changed a lot in this margin for the following year so even if your partner's capacity has been built and is able to take more you're still stuck in some kind of a ceiling that is fake is not real is not needs based so there is a technical component to that which we encourage you to go through in case you feel it's more of partner agencies that are not able to scale up programmatically we encourage you to reach out to us immediately so we can contact the headquarters of the different organizations and create internal pressure for this organization to scale up their capacities in case it's international organizations in the case of national organizations you will need a strategy to build the capacity and make that known and build it up from year to year so Jack I agree with you it's a problem almost everywhere there is a technical as part of the planning component to it go through that and push the figures to get as close as possible to the needs and contact us if for a specific or a specific dimension of protection we know the needs is there but you also know that there is no partner capacity then it's our job globally to really push and support you to have the right organizations scale up their problems over William and Michael here if I could come in on that absolutely go ahead just as an example we've seen that previously for example in DRC where we've had locations where we did not have partners and we've been able to advocate with donors putting donors and partners together on a global call and to put the issue on the table and say we need a presence and also where we need international partners to take a different approach and that is to support local partners to deliver services where there may not be the usual kind of set up funds for an international partner so it's something yes we can support you with around that advocacy and also bringing attention to a particular location over. Thank you very much it's well not sure we will link to you according to me when process Thank you. Excellent thanks a lot for that so last round for questions feedbacks comments okay so well we are on track with the agenda so as suggested let's all take 5 or so minutes break just to stretch our legs have a cup of coffee and we'll restart at 4.25 so in 7 or 8 minutes Geneva time. See you soon colleagues. And in the meantime if any of you have questions or please feel free to start and in the chat box. Thanks. Hello again colleagues confirming that you can hear me well. Loud and clear. Thanks William. Okay so yeah on the second session as mentioned we want to focus on let me just on the guidance which would be the first step and we know for some operations even already discussion have at least started or are starting so we wanted to bring you up to date to what are the key elements and approach that has been suggested for the 2021 cycle some of the key changes and the guidance that we are finalizing both within the sectoral level and we're contributing but also the sectoral part and particularly also hear from you to clarify any questions but also have some feedback that we should reflect in both the global and the sectoral guidance. So for this year I mean last year just as an introduction I think you well most of you or several of you were engaged also in the HPC 2020 process within the enhanced approach one of the key elements that was strengthened or was saying to be strengthened was the joint sectoral analysis of needs the joint sectoral also response planning prioritization with a focus also to understand where integrated or multi-cluster, multi-sector responses were more needed and priority and for this the idea was to have as a framework what is called the JAF analysis framework or joint sectoral analysis framework sometimes referred to which has been an initiative that started more than three years ago a discussion at the global level within the different global clusters, lead agencies and other key partners and was then integrated into the grand bargain commitments on improved needs assessment and harmonize and joint needs assessment but by the time that the HPC 2020 was being developed the guidance the JAF was not yet agreed or validated so only a few elements were integrated into the enhanced approach but there was a bit of divergence between the framework that was being discussed but in addition there was a bit of lack of guidance so for this year the idea is that the HNO particularly template is more aligned to the discussions and to the developments that have happened in recent months since the last cycle on the joint sectoral framework and on that obviously there has been key question or a key from our side on how to ensure that centrality of protection is a core and protection analysis is a central element in the joint sectoral analysis last year there was that discussion was not finished and we consider the framework still was not reflected the centrality of protection and and it's concretely the framework that you see here and that you probably have seen also in other guidance or documentations the framework as it is divided in four main pillars the context, the shock and the impact pillars which as you can see there have should be the ones that establish and to establish both the contextual analysis of the humanitarian crisis we are all responding but also the identification of the ideas affected by the specific shocks or drivers of the crisis and the people affected the impact these drivers or shocks are having on population such as displacement or impacts directly on other enjoyment of rights the humanitarian access impact and the impact concerns systems and services, disruption services and then those three pillars are also linked to what is called humanitarian conditions in the framework what was reflected in the HPC last year as humanitarian consequences which were the concrete outcomes that the impact of the crisis was having on population that was the basis for the severity analysis of needs and the calculation of intersectoral people in need the framework from the beginning has had these three pillars that you see here living in physical mental wellbeing living in standard scoping mechanisms in last year HPC because the framework was not finalized the HPC includes some elements but also some differences as you might recall the coping mechanism pillar was called resilience and there was also a protection pillar that was included as temporary transitional solution to ensure that protection since it was not yet properly reflected throughout the framework as a central element to be sure that it was visibilized in a specific manner and that was the pillar that in our guidance that was developed last year was the role of protection clusters and AORs at the field level to contribute to the analysis and to the calculation because that pillar in consultation with other clusters and reflect the same sectoral severity and people in need in that pillar and included in the intersectoral sections of the approach. Now what we have seen and also evidence and discuss with you obviously that created quite a lot of challenges one because from one side the guidance was still giving higher emphasis to the living standard and physical mental will be in pillars to calculate people in need so that's why also why our guidance also has to divide the indicators and analysis of the protection pillar into this other two or three pillars as per the context. So while protection was quite visible in the cases that this pillar was used it was also not necessarily central to the analysis and the intersectoral severity and pin calculations it was as many other sectoral indicators protection was also contributing to pillars and was just let's say the same weight as any other of the sectors but more on that is the center of the protection was also being left out and the whole kind of JAAF guidance at the moment was not very clear on how the context shocks impacts analysis could be more link and more use within the framework and within the HNO so this year this is we have even discussing both to address the challenges about confusion simplify but also to ensure a more proper integration of center of the protection within the framework what we have been discussing and have recommended and is now part of the draft guidance that will be out soon as mentioned before after mid-July is that the analysis of protection risk violations harms should be also central or should particularly be central to the analysis of the three first pillars of the framework usually most the drivers of the crisis are related particularly to protection violations but also understand protection as the center of the protection define it both in an integrated approach and in that approach and this will be particularly not only to influence the analysis the narrative of what is the context we are analyzing what are the main impacts but concretely also to ensure that that analysis helps to jointly identify and agree as one of the first steps of the GF and HNO in this case a general identification of what are the priority affected areas related to the humanitarian crisis and what are the affected population groups and particularly not only the standard ones in the humanitarian profile but also the specific vulnerable groups that are having a particularly impacts of the crisis so this will mean that more several of our indicators that we are also having a problem fitting in the humanitarian conditions pillar that will be looking at the needs of the population concretely will fit in the context shock impact indicator and will inform and lead that analysis in also together with other key sectoral indicators that we have been discussing and clusters have also recommended obviously to ensure that other key drivers key shocks and impacts of the crisis for instance in terms of health very relevant for this year are also part of that joint process then other sectors will contribute and protection and AORs and other key areas of protection will also contribute with specific needs and proxy indicators for the humanitarian conditions analysis but as mentioned also before one of the key recommendations and it's now reflected in the guidance is that for this year there shouldn't be calculations by sub pillar of people in need of severity there should be only one sub pillar combining all those different indicators to produce one intersectoral pin and one intersectoral severity score within this also there has been quite a lot of discussions on the challenges for this year and the on data collection given that the framework as it was developed initially rely significantly on household level data the framework and the model to aggregate all those indicators to produce an average severity score per geographical area or population group fits better if most of the indicators or even all come from a joint intersectoral needs assessment now while joint intersectoral needs assessment and household level data is quite important and should be also something that we all continue to improve and contribute and ensure that protection is well reflected in this it was also the view from many of the clusters including us that the analysis of the whole framework but particular conditions should also be using other sources other assessment not only household but also area based indicators so this has also been now integrated better in the guidance and for this last pillar both area and household level indicators can be integrated so concretely what we have um uh I think someone is on mute if you can mute thanks what we have work together based on the lesson learned and also consultation and looking at the analysis you all conducted also last year is that there will be a first step in the JAF which concretely we're talking about guidance for the JAF for the use of in the HPC for 2021 we'll have a first step which is consolidating and jointly analyzing across all actors cluster sectors agencies experts the context and impacts of the crisis with a strong focus on protection risks and protection violations and protection threats um that will help to establish the scope of the analysis um as you might remember in the HNO template this is one of the the first sections in the intersectional narrative are precisely the analysis of the context the shocks and impacts and then there is such a small section which is set in the scope of the analysis which will concretely is identifying what are the humanitarian profile that we are prioritizing what is the affected areas and what are the affected vulnerable groups so this is the where we think that and we consider that protection will have a more central role and will have a concrete impact in terms of ensuring that areas mostly are highly exposed to protection risk to professional evaluations and a specific affected vulnerable groups are identified firstly as priority for the analysis and more importantly obviously that analysis should also be linked to the priorities for the response um is also having an additional value added as we have been discussing with other colleagues and reflected also in the guidance it provides also a sequence linkage between the non-humanitarian conditions pillars the first three pillars of the analysis and the humanitarian conditions and not maybe what happened or was reflected even in the guidance from last year that kind of the analysis of context of impact was separate from the analysis of humanitarian conditions of humanitarian needs or there was not a clear link it will provide the baseline also for the calculation of people in need particularly because the severity and analysis will give you percentages of where needs particularly multiple needs of the population are more severe than others that should be applied to the baseline figures of affected groups and to the affected areas so this is something that this analysis will also establish the baseline it also ensures and this was another key point that was lacking in our view but also among other clusters the lack of joint analysis on your interpretation on the lack of focus on this through the whole Jafrain where the Jafrain was being more mostly approached from a technical complex model that will allow to combine multiple indicators and produce an average score and average spin through different mathematical formulas but the joint analysis and your interpretation of the results was a bit lacking emphasis so with this from the beginning all actors or clusters AOR sectors are jointly together interpreting first the context shocks and impacts to jointly decide the scope of the analysis and the priority areas and groups and it also builds upon the protection analysis that is normally part also of HCT strategies so it should be linked but also it should be informed by that analysis but it also provides a baseline for better linkages between humanitarian and development analysis you will probably have seen that recently there was a new guidance from ISSC on collective outcomes between humanitarian development actors and in that guidance one of the key first steps is to have a joint analysis of risk, vulnerabilities and context of the situation between humanitarian development actors that can help to identify what areas, what groups, what needs are more related to humanitarian, what could be addressed through the NEXUS so this will help to set up that baseline and not only purely to start with the severity and intersectional pink calculations so concretely what are the steps is a very simple approach we have also make sure that the approach is clear but simplified for all the operations the first step will be to identify and consolidate available information on the indicators that are specific for each context and aggregated or disaggregated to the different geographical unit of analysis that is decided for each context then to define context based threshold or context based options to analyze all these different indicators in consultation with the JAF they are in working groups but also clear involvement from the clusters and AORs that are owners or contributing with these different indicators this particularly will help to address one of the also challenges with the initial approach with the JAF which is all the indicators we're hoping to have a universal threshold that was applied universally across all operations which makes sense when we are talking about the humanitarian needs indicators but it didn't make sense on the context indicators which by definition will need to be adapted to the different scenarios and situations and particular situations then there will be a joint session joint sessions to join interpret these indicators and the main outcome will be the consensus among other actors of what are the most affected geographical areas by the crisis and the final step will be to identify and profile the affected specific groups population groups in those areas so for this there will be to refer to the humanitarian profile categories as established in the global guidance displays, non-displays affected population non-host but affected non-host not affected but also dig down about the specific vulnerable groups more affected by the drivers or the chocks that we are responding so this will be a profile of those groups and establishing those baseline figures that will then be the reference for the calculation of pin figures finally the severity analysis and pin calculations the different sectors, clusters and others will contribute with specific indicators related to humanitarian conditions to humanitarian needs of the population which again not only mostly or in a large portion will come from household level assessment, household level data collection but also equally important from area-based or secondary data sources but the important is that they have an associated threshold of severity that will be aggregated the aggregation part is very one of the key areas of discussion within the JAF for many years even not only months for this year there has been two different options that are being discussed and will be reflecting the guidance to have a simpler approach for this this will be mostly the role of the JAF team that will be set up in every operation but there is also again a quite important component of when the results of combining those indicators are produced in terms of what are the severity scales of each area and what are the calculation of people in need the role of experts and joint analysis interpretation will be again quite important and finally those estimation of people in need and severity will need also to be forecasted for the next year here the framework and the guidance will recognize that this is an element that needs further development in the future but the guidance includes some options and alternatives particularly the use of a specific risk-based analysis to inform this projection so concretely from the role of different clusters and AORs colleagues in the field will be as the same approach as last year start by assessing what are the information the landscape what is available collect all the different indicators in this case one step will be that the context shocks impact indicator will contribute to the first part of the analysis what the specific humanitarian conditions indicators will contribute to the humanitarian conditions part there will be recommended and revised leads of indicators for both the context analysis and for humanitarian conditions that will be shared with all operations but obviously they will need to be revised and probably adapted to each context and for that the global team both from the GPC and the AORs will be providing continued support to guide you on that process and then finally this course validate with all the actors and experts in the country on the indicator selected and the information that will be contributed both to the context and the humanitarian conditions intersectoral analysis lastly just to finish soon and open for questions and comments the sectoral analysis will not change much from what we have recommended last year for us the sectoral analysis will continue to feature with the specific sectoral chapters there is some considerations to ensure that both the intersectoral and the sectoral analysis are aligned or there is also a discussion to avoid discrepancies but concretely in our case in the case of the protection sector and areas of responsibilities the approach will be to again select the indicators and information that is available some or all of them should have been fed into both the context and the humanitarian conditions part of the sectoral approach but others others could be added to this analysis if we are caught or for some reasons didn't make it into the intersectoral analysis and as last year we will produce a joint severity analysis both using overarching and specific indicators so in our case we will use all indicators to come out with this overarching severity analysis of Bayerian population groups and then the PIN calculations will be linked to these scores and apply according to the categories of affected and vulnerable groups we will be providing and have been revising the different methodologies you used last year and will be providing some recommended benchmarks to do this simpler link between the severity and the PIN calculations and will be also supporting you in this implementation for HPC 2021 to last points here is one key message and we saw that happen last year particularly because of the confusions in the global intersectoral guidance there shouldn't be too much time invested necessarily in mathematical calculations in discussions back and forth so I think we have tried and all the closures have also recommended to simplify the guidance and the approach for this year focus more on the qualitative analysis the qualitative narrative of the key sections at the intersectoral and sectoral level on the joint analysis and discussions with all the cluster constituencies and experts and particularly to highlight in the narrative what are the groups with specific needs what are the priority areas that are more affected by protection risk violations and other key sectoral shocks that's one of the key messages we want to submit but more or less the severity analysis will be very similar to what we established last year so yeah just to finish I think we we are focusing again on making sure that first there is as much use as secondary data available as possible if considering the limitations for data collection all the different indicators should be considered of the different information should inform the analysis and there is a possibility to integrate now that into the framework and second the most important is to focus on the narrative especially making sure that the protection clusters AORs in the field have a lead role an active role in the whole intersectoral analysis particular in the context-based one that will be led by the by the different configuration that that takes forms in the different countries so I will finish here just not to go over time surprisingly today I seem to be on time which I never am so I will finish here and open for discussion questions and clarifications but let me also take the opportunity if other colleagues from the OBSELO of the AORs want to add or complement anything I may have missed if no in other interventions from colleagues open to questions clarifications feedback considerations you think are important for us to bring into the finalization of the intersectoral and sectoral guidance for this year please go ahead and unmute yourself or raise your hand and I can monitor here ok David welcome also David and thanks for the message is it all totally clear very clear as David says too much information need to process it will benefit much from hearing from you or hearing also some questions or suggestions you may have thanks Ivan that was clear even for me so thank you thanks William that was very clear for me too from the AOR I guess it's very clear I think questions can come later when we get really into the work thanks a lot Astrid I believe it was right thanks you've seen here yeah, Jax thanks for the comment about the importance that last year had the dedicated support particularly during the HNO and HPC process of possibilities of continuing this year so for sure that's also part of one of the key messages also that we wanted to give at the NNO as closing remarks today but indeed we are planning to support collectively as global protection cluster and areas of responsibilities and all the focal points both for field support, HPC and IEM to support all of you as required but also support you not only remotely probably but ideally also at field level if COVID allows, COVID situation allows but also with support with advocacy or clarifications with other clusters with other checks around the implementation of this analysis there's also just to mention Jax to compliment this because the JAAF the idea is that it was first finalized back even last year at the beginning of this year it was then piloted in a few operations and then going on to a process of review, validation before actually making it into the HPC but that has not happened due to different circumstances, the delays in the discussion but also the COVID situation so the JAAF is being finalized now the guidance, the indicators but it's kind of been will be piloted now during the whole HPC process so it has been also agreed across all the key actors behind the JAAF the global clusters, agencies and also donors are supporting this to have a dedicated cell at the global level across experts from the clusters and agencies to support the implementation in the field this year so that will be also something not only the support you will get those dedicated fry from the cluster in the URs but also this global level let's call it cell or cell desk that will be dedicated to this just looking here at the comments please colleagues feel free to jump in or unmute while I read this if you have any specific question Sylvia there seems to be a privatization of the other conditions well-being and standards of living at least from our side miscoping mechanism indicators Thanks Sylvia, yes this was one of the confusions from last year because there was this guidance that was shared to the field on PIN calculation interceptor PIN calculations and because the framework was not finalized the option that was put forward for operations was that each sub pillar should have its own calculation of PIN and then the well-being physical material should have priority because it's considered to have the indicators more related to acute needs or gen needs certainly in standards then copying and protection but usually in most cases were only the first two which created a lot of confusions and it was not the whole the purpose of the framework from the start so that's why this year there has been an agreement and it would be like that in the framework that there shouldn't be a calculation by Sophia first of all all indicators contribute to the analysis and to the severity of needs and PIN calculation there is some discussions and we will follow up and provide specific guidance that are required some suggestions that are yet that's depending part of the guidance to be finalized over the next couple of weeks on having some critical indicators in the framework that will be decided in each context in each operation because in some cases combining so much in so many indicators will be might invisibilize or depraterize some critical needs or critical concerns so that is something that is being concerned but only at that level so I hope that clarifies your question Silvia but please feel free to to mention it or to complement in the chat or orally have you got to one question about the step two the step one is identifying consolidated information so can explain the step two more let me go back so this is the steps for I mean it's pretty much similar steps these will be those indicators that go into context shocks and impacts we'll need to have some analysis options some thresholds or ranking which could depend on the indicators some indicators will be about areas with humanitarian access issues or constraints usually this will be a yes or no type of indicators others will be conflict incidents at the geographical level or the community level so this could have some type of thresholds or some kind of analysis from most to least affected areas so for each of these the different indicators because they combine so many different type of indicators they will be contextualized for the joint analysis and then to compare across all the available indicators and see what are the most affected areas and affected groups so this is something also that from the global level we are going to answer your question okay any other questions, comments I wanted to go back before Marie I don't know if you're still with us yes I see you on the question you were having in the first session about the protection consequence I don't know if now it's also more clear or you still have questions about it thank you I guess it's much clearer and we've been using the protection consequence last year in Mali in addition to number one and number two on living standards and well-being but we will see how how we make the shift to follow the guidance that you just explained it does make sense I just just need to see how we can include the changes from the methodology that we were using last year great we don't expect but obviously we'll need to to see how the implementation goes and support you on that for sure that this will create a change, considerable change in the type of information to collect and to analyze pretty much for the sectoral part we're still taking as baseline the key context or overarching indicators that we were using last year terminology to contribute to the analysis and then the specific available indicators at the humanitarian needs or conditions level for our analysis they will all contribute to the overarching severity scale and then be the basis for pin calculations for the sectoral framework will contribute to the different components of it now when it comes to the I think also your question was related also how this translate into the HRP so again this for this year one of the simplifications because we also understand there was a lot of challenges on that last year that once you have the pin per pillar and then there was an expectation to have also targets associated to each of the pins but then because living standards and physical mental well-being prioritized if we had our protection separate pin which will be attached to specific targets and funding then that will be creating either overlaps or either prioritization or protection against the other two pillars so this time the idea is that the analysis produces identify the priority areas groups and the main severity and pin calculations that should inform the prioritization of the HRP but in the HRP again there will be no need to link targets or funding to now specific pin for sub pillars that being said for the strategic objective this should continue to be both ensuring again also the centrality of protection so addressing also the key drivers protection, violations and risk the population as well as the key humanitarian needs of the population so yeah hopefully shouldn't have on the contrary hopefully should simplify the overall approach this year but we'll be following up on that and providing support any other questions comments, colleagues Ivan, this is Boris how are you? Do you hear me well? Boris, yes sorry and hello to everyone from somewhere between Serbia and Croatia I want to cross the border but I stop just to make a couple of remarks and this is for protection cluster coordinators and IEMOs but also to all the EOR coordinators and IEMOs because just a couple of key points not to add about the process that we have been developing since the beginning of this year very hardly sometimes but in an incredible team spirit. The first point it will be that never before and thanks to the efforts of all the global EORs and global protection cluster colleagues protection has been better positioned for having a more evidence-based analysis into dates and all and at the same time this has been possible because in my personal opinion never before the protection cluster the global protection cluster and the global EORs they have been able to work as together and synchronize as it has happened this year so more than anything else this message is for encouraging the colleagues in the field to feel confident and calm because there is not only an evidence based methodology and approach that is going to enhance the centrality of protection and thus the protection analysis but also there is a full team from all the different EORs behind that sometimes informally they call it the support cell that together with the operation cells from the global protection cluster will be supporting and accompanying the colleagues over this process. We all know that the Canyon's Mons they are going to be intense in HNOs but let me finish with this very quick comment which is that this morning you answered with me the presentation for making some comments on the last review I only made two and one of them it was to highlight in black not to get worried about the mathematics of the PIN calculations but to focus on the joint analysis and now we have the opportunity and I'm pretty sure that a very good perspective and ambition but also a very good perspective for the results of this year. Over to you and thank you to you party in particular Ivan and the rest of colleagues that they have been contributing in this process it has been a fantastic experience. Over to you. Thank you, thank you very much Boris and yes I think also the opportunity to thanks all the colleagues from the Opsels and EORs that have been contributing but also to colleagues in the field based on the experiences you have shared with us, the methodologies, the challenges from last year have been able to take a more strategic and effective approach within the job for this year. So last round of options for comments, questions, suggestions complaints otherwise yeah, turn back to the global coordinators again for Rafa. Thank you very much Ivan for this clear messaging. I believe now Jim will make a first round of wrap up followed by Astrid to close the session. Jim over to you. Thank you William, thank you Ivan, thank you colleagues and firstly just wanted to introduce myself I might not have met all of you yet. I'm Jim Robinson I started with the HLP AOR as coordinator in June so yes it's very good to meet you, very good to be here I just wanted to offer just a couple of wrap up comments on some of the discussion we had just so that we don't lose those things that we talked about earlier so Ivan's revisited some of the discussion around using the consequences and how we calculate the PIN so I won't revisit that just now but just to say that the comment was made and heard to have the webinars in French and it was agreed that the GPC would follow up on that so that's something just to note. Also we discussed the monitoring and financial tracking particularly when we're thinking about integrated programming this growing trend that we want to see more of that it's really important to be able to then track, report and monitor what's happening with that and as Ivan and colleagues responded there's an ongoing discussion with Ochre on that to allow the tracking by AOR and the Global Protection cluster will keep following up on with that and bring you news as that develops Also talked just about some of the challenges around budget and funding and financing having to support and defend the sectoral chapters and we'd have to refer back to past years and just acknowledging that the potential vicious cycle of that that when we look back to the previous funding it can then be a fake ceiling, a limit on what's gone before so something we were talking about was really ways to advocate for putting partners and to capacity and seeing those things increase and Michael gave the example of DRC where they were able to put donors and partners together on a global call and then think about how to increase the capacity so that was something that was just shared and hopefully a useful thing. Just on the second round of discussion most of which you've just heard but just to make the point again about the IM support on the H&O and HPC process and just the hope that there'll be enough available for you that the cluster is going to be providing that through the AOR, through the GPC team through the OPCEL. We're going to be there to support the work that you're all doing. And I just wanted to finish to just have give a first round just recapping some of the key messages from today just as we leave the session. So we started off talking about the greater focus on integrated protection analysis and enhanced response planning. Focusing on ensuring the centrality of protection and inclusivity ensuring that protection risks inform the overall collective analysis. So not just through the protection indicators but also through the expert inputs into the collective analysis exercises and as well as ensuring the AOR specific sections in the H&Os and HRPs we need to enhance further visibility to other key protection areas so protection of civilians anti-trafficking mental health and psychosocial support to protection of older persons and we heard in more detail about the importance of considering and advocating for the inclusion of those with disabilities in H&O and HRPs we heard about that being a shared factor of identity across groups requiring protection, for example women, children and older people and also some statistics of there being higher incidence of disability in conflict affected situations. So that's just something to bear in mind. Another key message that we heard about was the integrated programming so that needs to spearhead our engagement with other sectors towards this collective protection outcomes and as we promote integrating and joint programming with protection actors to engage in early discussions with other clusters look for opportunities to work together and to program jointly and the third thing I just wanted to sort of leave us with just to reinforce is just this you know to focus on this comprehensive response planning with the targets and requirements on our operational footprint and that there will be further guidance to be developed and disseminated by the GPC so talked about an additional webinar and dedicated regional events and of course we've got the Global Protection Forum Annual Retreat coming up in September so there will be other other events on there that we hope to see you at. Yeah and that's by way of my comments and sort of remind us on the messages and just hand over now to Astrid for any further comments on what we've discussed today and some further closing remarks. Thank you Thank you I guess first of all I'd like to echo what Boris was saying as well just to from our point of view from the GBVAR I haven't looked in detail from all perspectives but what we've seen in our analysis is a great leap forward in terms of quality and attention to the quality of the needs assessments and how we in a way integrate GBV not just in our own sections finally having our own sections but across so I think it's true in terms of the new templates and all the energy that has gone into really improving and making a real use of these strategic planning processes it's a real I guess I just want to congratulate everyone who's here today because I think there's a lot going on there's a lot of discussions and a lot to learn for many of us and I think it is important to also realize that already last year a lot of energy went in and it did make a big difference I think that's also important because sometimes we might feel that that's how I feel at least sitting in Geneva that HNO and HRP sees and seems to sort of start and end and start and end and it's it's a big big part of what we do in the end so a big thank you there and just wanted to share that sort of uplifting message then in terms of the other closing remarks yes we we do need to still work on enhancing and harmonizing our results frameworks and how we work on response monitoring systems as well to demonstrate the quality and protection outcomes of our field protection responses I think overall the response monitoring is maybe one of the areas at least from our colleagues in the GPAR I do recognize there's a lot to be done still so we will be working on guidance for harmonizing the response monitoring and look forward to sharing more of that in the next months we will also be developing guidance to enhance targeting and estimation and financial requirements the costing which of course is also a big issue between where we have the activity costing and where we have the more traditional projects based costing and we will be providing support to together as a team I think that's also a key message and a key change maybe of the last year is that we have in the GPC with the AORs we have dedicated field support and we've been better at working together so that when when we've had field missions we're able to cover more ground and talk not just to our own colleagues but more broadly within the protection and I think we will continue doing that as much with the remote support maybe realistically realizing there will be more technical remote support than in country this season the positive of course with remote support is that we can also provide in real time technical advice so we have a dedicated team to provide the support from the GBV AOR we're also engaged because while we're still hiring at the global level we have more or less candidates ready to start working in regional IEM positions supporting the subclusters at the regional level and hopefully engaging with all of you not just with the GBV of course so those colleagues are starting in August so together we should have quite a lot of capacity to support you guys to push us as well so that we learn and we become better at supporting you and providing the guidance you need I think it's a two way collaboration and we also stand ready and I think that's important for that you remember when things are a bit difficult when you get into discussions that are more political when yeah when things when you hit your head against the wall and it's not because of the technical parts but more political that we are also ready in the GPC with AORs to provide global advocacy with OTSHA other clusters, lead agencies and donors we've done that recently on the FDS and I think yeah I think it's important that you all feel confident to either reach out together or separately and that you know that in Geneva there's a team where we collaborate well and we know each other quite well so if there are issues either between protection colleagues or with others where guidance is not implemented solutions are not found we are also here to try to help within our means of course but that's also a role we're happy to play so with that I think this is almost historic if we can finish before time I thank you all for your attention I think it's been a very good session at least for me I hope for you too and with all the webinars coming up through the replacing our annual face-to-face meetings this is only one out of many learning opportunities and I think it's good that together as a community we start the back on the HPC together so with that I would like to say thank you so much thank you a million times to Ivan as well for guiding us through all of this and yes have a good evening or morning wherever you are thank you so much over to you William nothing to add thank you all have a great morning afternoon and evening bye bye thanks everyone goodbye thanks bye thank you bye bye goodbye everybody