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“For me, the justice is the truth”: Strengthening Access to Justice for GBV Survivors
“For me, the justice is the truth”[1]: Strengthening Access to Justice for GBV Survivors Access to justice is a human right and is also key to the realization of other rights, including the right to live free from violence, discrimination and inequality. Upholding women and girls’ rights to access justice after GBV is a one element of multisectoral GBV programming in emergencies. Minimum actions for promoting justice and legal aid for GBV survivors are set in the Interagency Minimum Standards for Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Programming as minimum standard number 10. Survivor-centered justice systems offer a range of potential benefits for GBV survivors. They can provide protection and remedy, and support healing and recovery of GBV survivors and their families. Yet, in most humanitarian contexts, it is challenging to seek justice for GBV through formal or informal mechanisms - let alone survivor-centered justice. Many of the barr...
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...
Training: GBV In Humanitarian Action ADVANCED
21 Feb, 2023
Who is this course for? This training is addressed to all professionals who hold a dedicated GBV function or have GBV in their job description. GBV specialists can be project managers, technical experts, advisors or coordinators, and they generally cover a range of responsibilities, including: • Conducting specialized GBV assessment, planning, budgeting and resource mobilization; • Implementing specialized GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response programming; • Providing support to other sectors to mainstream GBV and lead GBV coordination; and • Contributing to GBV data and information management. Learning outcomes This course aims at enhancing programming and response capacities in GBV in Humanitarian Assistance. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to: • Plan, design and implement context appropriate GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response interventions in humanitarian crisis; • Support quality multi-sectoral response services to G...
Guidance to Gender-Based Violence Coordinators Addressing the Needs of Male Survivors of Sexual Violence in GBV Coordination - GBV AoR 2021
02 Nov, 2021
This guidance note is intended to guide gender-based violence (GBV) coordinators in their work on addressing sexual violence against men and boys in humanitarian coordination. The GBV AoR recognises the importance of ensuring that referral pathways, standard operating procedures and needs assessments include and address the needs of male survivors of sexual violence, and that all relevant humanitarian sectors are engaged in meeting these needs2 . To that end, this guidance note is designed to ensure that male survivors have safe access to support and services that they need, without comprising the safety or reducing access to services for women and girls.
Energy, Gender, and GBV in Emergencies- Mercy Corps & WRC 2019
06 Dec, 2019
The Women's Refugee Commission and Mercy Corps’ Energy in Emergencies: Reducing Risks of Gender-based Violence (EEMRG) project, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, aims to improve safety and opportunities for women and girls through inclusive access to energy in emergencies. The report and accompanying case studies on Energy, Gender and GBV in Emergencies incorporate input from refugees, humanitarian practitioners and market actors and lay the foundation for a forthcoming training program, which will be rolled out in 2020 in close collaboration with Mercy Corps teams in Afghanistan, Jordan, and Uganda.
مذكرة إرشادية: استراتيجيات الخروج في حالة الإغلاق المبكر والدائم لبرامج الاستجابة لحالات طوارئ العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي - GBV AoR Helpdesk 2023
26 Jul, 2023
الهدف من هذه المذكرة الإرشادية الموجزة هو تزويد المستجيبات الدوليات للعنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي بإرشادات عملية حول وضع استراتيجيات الخروج وخطط الطوارئ. وهذا للتأكد من استعدادهن في حالة اضطرار برامج الاستجابة لحالات طوارئ العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي إلى الإغلاق المبكر والدائم دون إشعار يُذكر. وتهدف هذه المذكرة إلى سد فجوة معرفية وإنشاء مورد يمكنه تقديم طرق للمضي قدماً لتحسين الاستدامة وتعزيز الوقاية من العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي والاستجابة له على الصعيد المحلي.
GBV AoR Strategy 2021-2025
23 Jul, 2019
The GBV AoR Strategy 2021-2025 sets out the strategic objectives until 2025.
Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action
23 Apr, 2019
These Guidelines provide practical guidance and effective tools for humanitarians and communities to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence, throughout all stages of humanitarian response—from preparedness to recovery.