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Promote a community-based approach to the response, support community self-protection mechanisms and facilitate meaningful access to specialized services for persons at heightened protection risk, including girls, boys, women and men of all ages, who have diverse needs and vulnerabilities, with the aim of mitigating exposure to protection risks, strengthening the resilience of affected communities in order to build skills for return and reintegration, and placing communities at the centre of the response, as well as by ensuring active and meaningful two-way communication between humanitarian actors and communities of concern, in line with Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) principles.