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Sahel crisis: listen to women! Humanitarian access and women’s leadership in the Sahel
Sahel Crisis: listen to women! Humanitarian access and women’s leadership in the Sahel CARE International West Africa is very pleased to invite you to its launch event for its Regional Humanitarian Advocacy Strategy for the Sahel: #listentowomen! Please find full details of the event attached to this email (French and English versions). Date: 2021.06.09 / Time: 01pm - 02:30pm GMT / Where: Zoom link to come after registration Registration : https://forms.gle/iQRhdNtqMyWYQ3Ji7 This webinar will present CARE’s vision and advocacy strategy in the Sahel, which aims to put women and girls at the heart of the humanitarian response and post-crisis management. Because they are key actors in mitigating the multidimensional crisis in the Sahel, this webinar will give the floor to women who respond daily on the ground as true leaders.
GBV AoR Helpdesk Learning Brief on Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
20 Sep, 2021
The new GBV AoR Helpdesk learning series addresses the issue of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) affecting women and girls in humanitarian settings. The three-part resource looks at the different forms of online violence, suggests actions for GBV specialists and also policy recommendations for humanitarian organisations, donors and technology companies. The first report, Learning Brief 1: Understanding Technology- Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, builds on basic knowledge of TFGBV. It provides a definition and overview of the forms of TFGBV that are prevalent and how this abuse is manifested in emergency contexts. The second report, Learning Brief 2: Strategies and Actions for Preventing and Responding to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, gives an overview of promising strategies currently being used in different parts of the world to prevent and respond to TFGBV and highlights some key examples and resources. The third report, Lea...
How can you take the lessons learned and improve focus on adolescent girls in your program?
To celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), we are inviting you to join the GBV AoR Community of Practice and special guests the Whole of Syria GBV AoR for a week dedicated to learning and discussing GBV and Adolescent Girls. In 2017, the Syria Humanitarian Needs Overview identified adolescent Syrian girls as particularly vulnerable to child marriage and sexual violence and completely overlooked and ignored in the humanitarian response. Based on these findings and consultations held with GBV and SRH actors and with adolescent girls themselves, the Whole of Syria GBV Area of Responsibility and the Reproductive Health working group agreed to develop a strategy that would address the specific needs of adolescent girls in Syria, focusing on reproductive health and gender based violence. During the week of October 11, t...
16 Days of Activism on GBV
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign coordinated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and used by activists around the world as an organizing strategy to call for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence. The core 16 Days campaign takes place every year between November 25 and December 10 and is run by more than 6,000 organizations in 187 countries.
GBV AoR Retreat 2021 (GBV Coordinators and IMOs)
The GBV AoR is going to hold its annual retreat 2021, from 8th to 15th July. Due to Covid-19 limitations and travel restrictions, this retreat will be held online. The coordinators of GBV coordination teams and information management officers across 41 contexts are invited to this event. The retreat is a time for the GBV AoR global coordination team, the regional GBV teams, and the country coordination teams to reflect on the achievements, challenges and lessons learned during the last year, discuss emerging issues, and identify key actions and plan for the year ahead. In addition, the GBV AoR has developed its Strategy 2021-2025 in the past year, and this retreat will also be an opportunity to establish a shared understanding of the principles and priorities of the GBV AoR for the years ahead. Moreover, the GBV AoR Call to Action Commitments and new workstreams will also be raised and discussed with the field operation teams.
Rapid Gender Analysis: Latin America & Caribbean: Venezuelan Migrants & Refugees in Colombia - CARE 2019
26 Jul, 2019
This Rapid Gender Analysis provides preliminary information and observations on the different needs, capacities and coping strategies of Venezuelan migrant and refugee women, men, boys, and girls in Colombia. It seeks to understand how gender roles and relations have changed as a result of the crisis and share recommendations for how the humanitarian community can more effectively consider these changing dynamics to better meet the different needs of women, men, boys and girls of different ages, abilities and other contextually relevant forms of diversity.
the 1st Southern Africa Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action,
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the 1st Southern Africa Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action, which will take place virtually on the 26th & 27th of May 2021. The Southern Africa Dialogue Platform 2021 will provide a platform for anticipatory action practitioners, of which regional and national disaster management authorities, humanitarian agencies, as well as the forecasting community will actively showcase and collaboratively co-design the regional inter-agency roadmap to strengthen effective implementation of anticipatory action in Southern Africa. By looking at anticipatory action through the Southern Africa regional lens, we aim to build a Southern African community on Anticipatory Action, and have tangible outcomes with a joint roadmap. REGISTRATION LINK https://events.anticipation-hub.org/southernafrica/registration/ Please join the Parallel Session on “Anticipating Action: Using Early Warning indicators...
Empower: Preventing VAWG in Acute Emergencies Interpretaion in Spanish Available
Empower: Preventing VAWG in Acute Emergencies Thoughtful, transformative GBV prevention programming can be designed and implemented from the outset of humanitarian emergencies if we use a feminist lens to inform programming. Join the GBV AoR Community of Practice as they host the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to present: EMPOWER: Preventing violence against women and girls in acute emergencies. EMPOWER names strategies— that fall and are sequenced along a pathway to prevention, providing a framework for GBV prevention programming that is both relevant within the first 12 weeks of an emergency and builds a foundation for longer term prevention strategies. It emphasizes process and approach to programming over outcomes recognizing that accountability to and empowerment of women and girls in the determination, design and implementation of programming is working on the pathway to prevention. The webinar will ...
Empower: Preventing VAWG in Acute Emergencies (هذا الاجتماع باللغة الإنجليزية ومترجم إلى العربية)
Empower: Preventing VAWG in Acute Emergencies (هذا الاجتماع باللغة الإنجليزية ومترجم إلى العربية) Thoughtful, transformative GBV prevention programming can be designed and implemented from the outset of humanitarian emergencies if we use a feminist lens to inform programming. Join the GBV AoR Community of Practice as they host the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to present: EMPOWER: Preventing violence against women and girls in acute emergencies. EMPOWER names strategies— that fall and are sequenced along a pathway to prevention, providing a framework for GBV prevention programming that is both relevant within the first 12 weeks of an emergency and builds a foundation for longer term prevention strategies. It emphasizes process and approach to programming over outcomes recognizing that accountability to and empowerment of women and girls in the determination, design and implementation of programming is working on th...
Building capacity on GBV case management: an unprecedented journey across 8 countries #webinar
16 Days Webinar: MS 6: Building capacity on GBV case management: an unprecedented journey across 8 countries #webinar When: Wednesday, 9 December 2020 2:00pm to 3:30pm (UTC+01:00) Europe/Amsterdam Where: Register here: https://unicef.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zk6ZxAVlTYaDOPdJODRA-Q Organizer: GBV COP and GBV IMS Steering gbvcop@gmail.com Description: The 6th standard in the Inter-agency GBV Minimum Standards regards ensuring that GBV survivors access appropriate, quality case management services including coordinated care and support to navigate available services. Following the development of the Interagency GBV Case Management Guidelines in 2017, the GBVIMS Global Team piloted a strategy and approach for building capacity on GBV case management in Mali, Nigeria and Somalia. Thanks to funding from USAID/BHA and under the leadership of UNICEF, these pilots led to the development of the GBV Case Management Capacity Building Init...