The overall goal of this project is to strengthen the provision of direct protection assistance, including gender-based violence (GBV) response services to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and IDP returnees in Oromia (East Hararge) and Somalia regions (Fafan). The interventions will be in line with IOM’s Institutional Framework for Addressing GBV in Crises and IOM’s Protection Policy. General Protection The project proposes interventions to identify protection risks within and around IDP sites/collective centres, areas of return/relocations (where applicable) and address and mitigate protection needs/risks of IDPs and/or IDP returnees. This will be through protection risk assessments and individual protection assistance (IPA) to support individuals with time-bound protection needs. The activities will prioritize the needs of persons with disabilities (PWDs). Gender-based Violence (GBV) Under the GBV sub-cluster objectives, the project will respond holistically to meet the needs of affected populations, particularly women and girls in IDP sites/collective centres and/or areas of return through mobile GBV service delivery. The activities will variously include GBV case management, including cash assistance psychosocial support distribution of dignity kits, and awareness raising on GBV and sensitization on service availability. Where possible, the mobile GBV response will be co-located with IOM’s health response in the region to enable safe entry points, where the latter will support with the provision of sexual and reproductive health services and clinical management of rape (CMR). Finally, the project will also aim to build staff and partner protection capacities, including on protection mainstreaming, psychosocial support and psychological first aid (PFA), GBV risk mitigation, responding safely and ethically to GBV disclosures and disability inclusion.