This evaluation focuses on Protection from Violence (PfV), the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) newest core competency, which was implemented across 26 countries and reached approximately 700,000 people in 2023. The PfV core competency focuses on helping to ensure displaced people and communities are protected by preventing and responding to violence, coercion, and actions taken by others to deny them their rights. Given the significant programme development and expansion of programmes, NRC believes 2025 is the right time for a global evaluation.

This evaluation is anticipated to support NRC’s continued investment into protection and inform the sector by providing evidence of outcome-oriented approaches to protection. NRC aims to focus on two specific areas of programming: Civilian-Self Protection (CSP) and Individual Protection Assistance (IPA). Each of these is a specific programmatic approach within a broader programmatic area: CSP is the flagship program in the Community Safety and Violence Prevention pillar and IPA is a core mechanism under Individual Protection Services.

This evaluation is intended to support the scaling and prioritisation of PfV across NRC to ensure it capitalises on investments made to date. It will aim to identify success factors for programming with positive impacts and help NRC guide future programming implementation. In addition to specific contributions to PfV technical approaches, it will provide evidence for NRC’s next strategy period, which begins in 2027. It will also be a public good for the wider humanitarian community, adding to the evidence base about what interventions successfully reduce protection risks on a community and individual basis.