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Africa Regional Webinar on Women Humanitarians around World Humanitarian Day
Africa Regional Webinar is being co-hosted by UN OCHA and the Charter For Change coalition around World Humanitarian Day, which this year focuses on the theme of women humanitarians. Date and Time: Thursday 15 August 2019 at 15.00 – 16.30 East Africa Time / 13.00-14.30 West Africa Time Speakers will include: April Pham, Senior Gender Advisor, UN OCHA Nasra Ismail, Director, Somali NGO Forum, Somalia Thérèse Mema Mapenzi, Director, Centre Olame Bukavu, DRC
The Asia/Pacific Regional Webinar on Women Humanitarians around World Humanitarian Day
The Asia/Pacific webinar is co-hosted by Charter For Change and OCHA with GiHA (the inter-agency Gender in Humanitarian Action platform in Asia/Pacific co-chaired by IPPF, OCHA and UNW) and HAG (the Humanitarian Advisory Group). Date and Time: Tuesday 20th August 2019 at 8am Afghanistan, 9.15am in Nepal, 10am Myanmar, 10.30am Indonesia, 15.30 Fiji Speakers will include: Aye Thiri, Gender Focal Point, UN OCHA, Myanmar Kate Sutton, Director, Humanitarian Advisory Group, Asia/Pacific Women working in humanitarian action from across Asia; including Nepal, Myanmar, the Philippines and Fiji
GBV AoR Webinar on HNO/HRP
We will hold another webinar on 21August. Times: 11.00 - 13.00 London; 12.00 - 14.00 Geneva; 17.00-19.00 BKK time. The webinar is a follow-up from the 31 July webinar on the HNO. In the upcoming webinar we will discuss: Where and how to integrate GBV risk mitigation in the HNO/HRP process Roles and responsibilities of GBV specialists versus non-GBV specialists Data for action: linking identified risks in needs analysis to concrete and realistic objectives and goals in response planning We are especially thankful to our colleagues from the GBV Guidelines who are organizing this webinar.
Unlocking Refugee Women’s Potential - GWI, IRC 2019
09 Aug, 2019
This report, jointly published by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC), analyzes and estimates potential gains from the inclusion of refugees, particularly women, in the labour market. It focuses on five countries with large refugee populations that also offer recent information on refugee employment and earnings disaggregated by gender—Turkey, Uganda, Lebanon, Jordan, and Germany—as well as the United States, which hosts a relatively small population of refugees.