Guidance Note on Applying Feminist Approaches to Humanitarian Action - GBV AoR Helpdesk 2024

16 Jul, 2024

This paper considers the question of whether feminist theories and principles hold the potential to help the humanitarian system better meet many of its highest priorities. Research across the world provides widespread evidence that feminism can benefit not just women and girls, but entire communities and societies. Already across the UN system, there are strong normative frameworks and rhetorical commitments to women’s rights and empowerment. Feminist principles are deeply embedded in UN conventions and guidance that are key to humanitarian response.  However, at the level of humanitarian action, these feminist principles tend to “show up” most regularly and explicitly only in specific areas: GBV prevention and response, gender mainstreaming and gender-transformative programming, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Despite the strong normative frameworks and rhetorical commitments to women’s rights and empowerment, and despite empirical evidence on the value of advancing fe...

Advocacy on Rise of GBV risks for Women and Girls in Relation with Greatest Food Insecurity in WCA - GBV AoR WCA Regional Team 2022

06 Apr, 2022

On the 14th of March 2022, the United Nations Secretary General warned of “a hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” as a consequence of the Ukraine crisis. Inequalities together with distribution and logistics problems linked with the consequence of the crisis in Ukraine, have disrupted global supply chains. In a globalized world already experiencing unprecedented levels of food insecurity, the crisis in Ukraine will impact food security everywhere. Few places will experience this more forcefully than the countries of West and Central Africa; and women and girls of West and Central Africa will once again bear the brunt of conflict and crisis, even one thousands of miles away...

Gender-Based Violence and Child Protection Field Cooperation Framework - GBV AoR & CP AoR 2021

06 Jan, 2022

The primary objective for the GBV and Child Protection FCF is, from a coordination point, to address service provision gaps and promote complementarity for shared priority populations of concern.

Gender Sensitive Reporting_COVID-19

18 Nov, 2021

Reporting, media, communications, interview, journalists, sensitive, Gender, GBV, Covid-19

Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and Gender Based Violence (GBV) Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

03 Jun, 2021

Niger: Les Violences Basees sur le Genre (VBG) Examen des Donnees Secondaires - Jan 2023

13 Feb, 2023

Les taux de violence basée sur le genre (VBG) sont extrêmement élevés dans le pays, et ils sont exacerbés par la crise humanitaire multiforme actuelle ainsi que par des normes sociales bien ancrées qui empêchent la promotion de l'égalité des genres. Les enfants sont affectés par des problèmes de protection spécifiques tels que : la détresse psychosociale, la séparation familiale, l'association avec des groupes armés et le recrutement forcé, l'exposition aux mines et autres engins explosifs, mais aussi par des problèmes de protection structurels qui sont exacerbés par la VBG (y compris le mariage d'enfants et l’exploitation sexuelle), travail des enfants et autres formes d'abus.

Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility Strategy 2021-2025 (SPANISH)

10 Nov, 2021

Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility Strategy 2021-2025 (Spanish)

Webinar Recording: Adapting for the Shadow Pandemic: Guidance on Remote GBV Services for Phone-based Case Management and Hotlines 1 March 2021

03 Mar, 2021

The GBV AoR Community of Practice and GBV AoR Helpdesk hosted the webinar: Adapting for the Shadow Pandemic: Guidance on Remote GBV Services for Phone-based Case Management and Hotlines on 1 March 2021. The event is part of a two webinar series and supports the release of the COVID-19 Guidance on Remote GBV Services Focusing on Phone-based Case Management and Hotlines https://tinyurl.com/wjy7tuum​ . This new resource presents options for adapting GBV case management in the context of COVID-19 so that survivors can continue to access safe and confidential services. It focuses on phone-based case management and also provides recommendations for scaling up hotlines. The first session, 1 March, presents the different sections of the toolkit to introduce the new resource so everyone is familiar with it. The second session, 11 March allows participants to interact with different GBV actors involved in developing the tool.

Humanitarian Financing For Women's Organisations and Groups - GBV AoR Helpdesk 2024

22 Nov, 2021

This report identifies a range of funding opportunities for national and local women’s rights organizations to help prevent and respond to GBV in emergencies.    Women around the world have lived experiences that are different from men, informed by norms that perpetuate gender inequality. This gender inequality in turn underpins multiple forms of violence that women and girls are exposed to across their lives. In humanitarian settings, certain types of violence against women and girls, (VAWG, also referred to as gender-based violence, or GBV) can increase. Women’s organizations with expertise in addressing GBV are often best- placed to identify and meet the needs of women and girls affected by GBV in their communities, as well as to undertake contextually relevant strategies to prevent GBV. This document was developed to identify potential sources of funding for local women’s organizations. This list of donors is not exhaustive but serves as a starting point