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Webinar: Utilizing Cash and Voucher Assistance within Gender-based Violence Case Management to Support Crisis-Affected Populations in Ecuador

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With support from Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Women’s Refugee Commission, CARE, Fundacion Quimera and The Latin American Platform of Sex Workers (PLAPERTS) partnered to advance the Call to Action Roadmap in Ecuador by strengthening the capacity of GBV and CVA service providers to leverage CVA within case management services in the prevention of and response to GBV for crisis-affected populations.

Webinar: Comment atténuer les risques de Violence Basée sur le Genre dans les transferts monétaires?

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Le transfert monétaire (TM) est aujourd’hui un outil incontournable pour assurer la survie et promouvoir la résilience des populations vulnérables. Cependant, il est nécessaire que les acteurs humanitaires qui utilisent cet outil mettent en place des mesures d’atténuation et de prévention des risques de Violence Basée sur le Genre (VBG). Le TM permet aux familles vulnérables une couverture de leurs besoins de base. Afin que ces familles puissent faire des choix adaptés à leurs besoins, il est crucial d’intégrer la composante protection dans le TM.

Webinar: CVA and GBV Compendium: making the guidance into practical training

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The Cash & Voucher Assistance and GBV Compendium: Practical Guidance for Humanitarian Practitioners (Compendium) was developed in 2019 through the collaborative effort of 15 organisations who contributed expertise to its inception, design and review. The Compendium assists humanitarian actors and crisis- and conflict-affected communities to: integrate GBV risk mitigation into CVA interventions; integrate GBV prevention into multi-sector programming using CVA when appropriate; and integrate CVA into GBV prevention and response when appropriate.

Webinar: Reducing risks of Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance

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Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) has been shown to contribute to the survival and resilience of vulnerable populations, but in order to maximize its effectiveness, humanitarian actors should establish gender-based violence risk prevention and mitigation measures. Cash is better able to achieve its intended results -- allowing people and households to meet their basic needs, make the most appropriate choices for their family and live with dignity -- when it includes protection and GBV risk mitigation, so that women, children and others can equally benefit.

Localization Task Team: Asia Regional Workshop Final Report, Jan 2020

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From August 27-28 2019, the Localization Task Team of the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) facilitated an Asia regional workshop focused on the engagement of local and women-led organizations in humanitarian GBV prevention, response, and coordination. Held in Bangkok, Thailand, the meeting brought together 30 participants from Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, as well as global and regional actors.

Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) Coordinator

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The Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) Coordinator is an exciting new role in CARE created to help drive forward the shift to locally-driven and women-centred needs assessments in emergencies. Since 2013, CARE has delivered RGAs in more than 60 crises, and is now striving to have CARE’s RGA methodology become standard practice across the humanitarian community, transforming the sector’s understanding of humanitarian needs assessments.

The Sixty-Fourth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

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In 2020, the global community will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). A five-year milestone will be reached towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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