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Women and Girls Safe Spaces: A Toolkit for Advancing Women's and Girls’ Empowerment in Humanitarian Settings - IRC & IMC 2019
21 Feb, 2020
Historically, because men’s power over women denied them the right to participate in the public space, the cultivation of safe, women-only spaces has been a vital counterspace created for women to network and for feminist movements to organize. These spaces and the activists working within them facilitated women to recognize their own agency and power for change (power within), their power to organize themselves to articulate the changes they wanted to make (power to), and collectively transform the systems that oppressed them (power with).
GBV AoR Capacity Strengthening Strategy 2023 — 2028
30 Oct, 2023
This Strategy focuses on strengthening the capacity of Country AoR Members, including local actors, and Country AoR Coordination Teams, to enhance their respective programming and coordination capacities for GBV prevention and response. It has been developed in consultation with the IASC GBV Guidelines Reference Group, the global interagency coordination group leading capacity building efforts on GBV risk mitigation with humanitarian actors working in non-GBV sectors and clusters. This ensures dedicated capacity strengthening on all three core components of GBV Programming: mitigation, prevention and response, while simultaneously reinforcing that GBV is a shared responsibility across the entire humanitarian system. Whilst this Strategy focuses on GBV prevention and response, the accompanying Annex outlines the general approach for capacity strengthening on GBV mitigation, as developed by the IASC GBV Guidelines Reference Group, and reaffirms the AoR’s commitment to ongoing collaborati...
Inter-Agency Standing Committee Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap) & Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) Note on Collaboration: Approaches to Gender Equality
03 Nov, 2022
While gender equality intersects with various system-wide priorities and actors, as seen above, this guidance note focuses on the complementarities specifically between the IASC GenCap Senior Gender Advisers and the GBV Area of Responsibility (AoR) Regional Advisers and Field GBV Coordinators with a view to guide these actors towards collaborative approaches that will foster common accountability to gender equality and GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response at the operational level. The guidance note has been developed through collaboration between GenCap management, UNFPA Headquarters and the GBV AoR.
EA$E Program Implementation Guide - IRC 2012
17 Jul, 2019