Africa/Global: New evaluation calls for better United Nations protection

To examine how the UN has been providing protection to internally displaced persons and how to make that response more effective, the Brookings Institution-Johns Hopkins Project on Internal Displacement and the Internal Displacement Unit of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs dispatched a team into the field. The study finds that the UN's approach to protecting vulnerable populations "is still largely ad hoc and driven more by the personalities and convictions of individuals on the ground than by an institutional, system-wide agenda."