The role of community centres in offering protection: UNHCR and Al Ghaith Association in Yemen

Abstract

Community centres play an important role in offering protection for displaced communities, particularly for members of those communities who have specific needs. Somali refugees in Yemen formed the Al Ghaith Association and are now running their own community centres to support fellow refugees. Below, UNHCR and Al Ghaith discuss their approaches.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• local communities
• protection
• community
• community-based protection
• Somali