Guidance Note on CMCoord Support to Protection Outcomes

The Civil-Military Coordination Service (CMCS), with support from OAD/PAPS, developed a Guidance Note on CMCoord Support to Protection Outcomes. The Guidance Note describes actions which OCHA’s CMCoord Officers and Focal Points can take in contributing to protection outcomes at a country level. The Note also describes the role of OCHA’s CMCS at HQ level in supporting protection outcomes. 

The areas of CMCoord Tasks in support of protection outcomes are defined as: 1) Analysis, 2) Dialogue, 3) Advocacy, 4) Capacity Building and 5) Planning and Preparedness. 

Find the Guidance Note here.

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Relevant Documents

InterAction:

• Building the Evidence Base: Addressing the Reverberating Effects of Military Operations on Civilian Life, November 2020.

• Minimizing Civilian Harm in Military Operations: InterAction Submission to the High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, May 2020.

• Civil Society Guidance for a Model Policy: DOD Policy on Civilian Harm, March 2020.

• Displacement and the Protection of Civilians in U.S. Military and Partnered Operations, December 2019.

• U.S. Partnered Operations and the Protection of Civilians, December 2019.

• Protection of Civilian Objects including Critical Infrastructure in U.S. Military Operations, November 2019.

• DoD Engagement with Humanitarian and Human Rights Organizations on Civilian Harm, July 2019.

• Protection of Civilians in Mosul: Identifying Lessons for Contingency Planning, October 2017.

Relevant Documents

OCHA PAPS:

• Access Minimum Package, 2019.

Ethiopia: Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Guidance

(March 2019) [English]

Sudan: Minimum Operating Standards (MOS) for Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination

(May 2018) [English]

North East Nigeria: UN-CMCoord Guidance

(April 2018) [English]

CAR: Country Specific Guidelines for Civil-Military Coordination between Humanitarian Actors and MINUSCA in the Central African Republic

(October 2017) [English] [Arabic]

IRAQ: Country specific humanitarian civil-military coordination guidelines 

(November 2015) [English]

DRC: National Guidelines for the Coordination between Humanitarian Actors and MONUSCO 

(August 2014)  [English]

HAITI: Revised Guidelines for Civil-Military Coordination in Haiti

(July 2013) [English]

• Map Action Civil-Military Guidelines v 1.1 2017

• Hayan UN-CMCoord AAR Report

• UN-CMCoord Hayan AAR

• HPG Policy Brief 58-Civil-Military 2014

• HPN Civil-Military Coordination_56

• HPG "The search for Common Ground Civ-Mil Relations in Afghanistan" 

• HPG "Trends and Challenges in Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination"

• HPG "Resettling the Rules of Engagement"

• SCHR Civil-Military Paper 

• Civil-Military Interaction and the Future of Humanitarian Action_Australian Government

• World Vision "Principled Pragmatism"

• Global Health Cluster, Civil Military Coordination during Humanitarian Health Action

Re-assessing the Civil-Military Coordination Service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The Brown University and the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies published a report on the Strategic Re-assessment of CMCS. These findings and recommendations are based on OCHA and partners’ perspectives, which have been collected through in-presence and online collective meetings, as well as bilateral interviews, and complemented by desk research. 

Please find the report here.