A shift in the understanding of the concept of security after the cold war led the UNHCR to shift its actions from international protection to large-scale humanitarian interventions across the globe. The security discourse shifted from a state-focused one towards a more individual-focused one, taking into consideration new threats to the security of states and individuals. In the midst of all these interventions, the idea of protection remained prevalent in the discourse of the UNHCR and within the response plans to humanitarian crisis. Idea of protection that is also at the core of any definition of human security. Through a qualitative interpretative policy analysis of the 2019 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis, this research sought to analyse the discourse of security as understood by the actors involved, and mostly by the UNHCR.