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Webinar Recording: Transcending Gender Norms: Using gender transformative approaches in WGSS

Jun 21, 2022

 

In humanitarian settings, gender inequality, one of the root causes of Gender-based Violence, remains the greatest structural barrier to women’s and girls’ participation. GBV practitioners seek to transform these gender hierarchies which legitimize and perpetuate violence against women and girls entangled in conflicts, disasters and displacement through their programming. Women’s and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSS) are used commonly to deliver GBV programming in humanitarian emergencies worldwide and represent a place where women and girls can find safety, community, and healing and work together toward common and personal objectives and empowerment. These spaces offer women and girls unique opportunities to rebuild the social and safety structures lost due to emergency, cultivate valuable life skills and link GBV survivors to specialized support.