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Why Not Local? Gender-based Violence, Women’s Rights Organisations, and the Missed Opportunity of COVID-19 - IRC 2021
07 Dec, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll on women and girls’ safety in already complex humanitarian emergencies. Risk mitigation measures to prevent the spread of the virus, including lockdowns and restrictions of movement, made specific and serious disruptions in women and girls’ lives. These factors also intensified operational challenges to delivering lifesaving gender-based violence (GBV) response services, which in complex humanitarian settings were already an arduous undertaking.
GBV & Anticipatory Action Webinar East and Southern Africa Regional GBV Working Group
GBV & Anticipatory Action Webinar East and Southern Africa Regional GBV Working Group Purpose of the Event: Facilitate learning and information sharing on Anticipatory Action (AA) and identify opportunities for strengthening GBV interventions/integration in AA approaches. Date/Time: Thursday 16, December 2021, 10:30am-12:30noon (EAT) Speakers Overview of AA generally (background, frameworks, financing, and concepts): Caroline Haar, GBViE Specialist (Anticipatory Action), UNFPA Humanitarian Office. Specific recommendations for GBV coordinators, GBV specialists, and those supporting risk mitigation interventions: Pamela Marie Godoy, GBV AoR Asia-Pacific. Addressing GBV through Anticipatory Action in Malawi and Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities: Almas Araru, UNFPA Malawi and Karen Williams, UNFPA Ethiopia. Learning & Outcomes of PDM for the CERF Anticipatory Action in Somalia: Osman Mohamed, ...
How to implement a survivor-centered approach in GBV programming (CARE-GBV)
15 Dec, 2021
USAID’s Collective Action to Reduce Gender-Based Violence (CARE-GBV) has shared a how-to note and infographic to support USAID staff and implementing partners who have a role in GBV programming to understand how programs can achieve a survivor-centered approach. A survivor-centered approach is the hallmark of quality GBV programming and promotes the dignity, rights, agency, and empowerment of survivors of GBV. This approach is implemented by keeping survivors safe, protecting confidentiality, demonstrating respect for survivor’s dignity and self-determination, and practicing nondiscrimination.
Links Between Food Insecurity and GBV in Conflict-Affected Settings
16 Dec, 2021
The global rise in food insecurity has disproportionately affected women: whereas the prevalence of moderate to severe food insecurity was 6% higher in women than men in 2019, it was 10% higher in women than men in 2020. Food insecurity is not only affecting women disproportionately, but has a range of gendered impacts, including well- established links to gender-based violence (GBV).