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International Day of Rural Women
The crucial role that women and girls play in ensuring the sustainability of rural households and communities, improving rural livelihoods and overall wellbeing, has been increasingly recognized. Women account for a substantial proportion of the agricultural labour force, including informal work, and perform the bulk of unpaid care and domestic work within families and households in rural areas. They make significant contributions to agricultural production, food security and nutrition, land and natural resource management, and building climate resilience. Even so, women and girls in rural areas suffer disproportionately from multi-dimensional poverty. While extreme poverty has declined globally, the world’s 1 billion people who continue to live in unacceptable conditions of poverty are heavily concentrated in rural areas. Poverty rates in rural areas across most regions are higher than those in urban areas. Yet smallholder agriculture produces nearly 80 per cent of food in Asia and...
Symposium on Gender Transformative Approaches to Engaging Men and Boys in GBV Prevention and Response in Humanitarian Settings
The Regional GBV Working Group for East and Southern Africa is pleased to invite you to our upcoming Symposium on Gender Transformative Approaches to Engaging Men and Boys in GBV Prevention and Response in Humanitarian Settings. The Symposium will feature key note speakers/experts from various organizations that work toward transforming harmful norms around masculinity as well as parallel sessions on key thematic areas relevant to the subject matter, including intersectionality. The event will take place 28 June from 9:00am - 5:00pm (EAT). Arabic and French translation will be provided. Le groupe de travail régional sur la VBG pour l'Afrique orientale et australe a le plaisir de vous inviter à son prochain symposium sur les approches transformatrices sur le genre visant particulièrement les hommes et les garçons dans la prévention et la réponse à la VBG dans les contextes humanitaires. Le symposium réunira en séances plén...
Traditions and Opportunities: A Toolkit for GBV Programs to Engage Community Leaders in Humanitarian Settings.
The GBV AOR Community of Practice is pleased to host Micah Williams from the International Medical Corps (IMC) in a webinar to introduce a new resource: Traditions and Opportunities: A Toolkit for GBV Programs to Engage Community Leaders in Humanitarian Settings. GBV programs have long recognized the importance of engaging community leaders as gatekeepers, service providers, and agents of change. Yet, GBV programs have often lacked tailored guidance and support to explore potential areas of community leader engagement and navigate challenges related to this work, including risks of inadvertently reinforcing leadership structures that do not center women and girls. IMC developed this toolkit, with support from the United States Office Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs, to provide GBV practitioners with new ideas, guidance, tools, and resources to meet these challenges, and to safely and effectively engage community leaders to advance GBV prevention and response in humanitarian settings...
STRENGHTENING PARTICIPATION, REPRESENTATION AND LEADERSHIP OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL ACTORS IN IASC HUMANITARIAN COORDINATION MECHANISMS
22 Oct, 2021
This guidance note has been developed to support efforts to strengthen the meaningful participation, representation, and leadership of local and national humanitarian actors (L/NAs)1 within IASC humanitarian coordination structures2. It draws on over 100 pieces of research and good practice to provide recommendations on how L/NAs can be an integral part of humanitarian coordination structures. It provides guidance for Humanitarian Coordinators, Humanitarian Country Teams, Cluster and Inter-Cluster Coordination Groups, and other related Task Forces and Working Groups.
Réunion sur le cartographie du financement des bailleurs de fonds pour les activités de VBG en RDC: mercredi 12 mai
Réunion sur le cartographie du financement des bailleurs de fonds pour les activités de VBG en RDC: mercredi 12 mai Le Groupe de travail régional sur la VBG pour l'Afrique orientale et australe est heureux de vous inviter à la série de webinaires "Pratiques émergentes" qui se tient ce mois-ci en anglais (mardi 11 mai) et en français (mercredi 12 mai) à 15h00 (heure d’Afrique de l'Est). La coordinatrice du sous-cluster VBG en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) présentera les résultats d'une récente «Cartographie» du financement des bailleurs de fonds pour les activités VBG réalisées par les membres du sous-cluster. Elle discutera la méthodologie utilisée et explorera comment ces résultats ont été utilisés dans le plaidoyer auprès des donateurs et des décideurs de haut niveau. C'est une excellente occasion pour d'autres organisations (en particulier les membres du sous-cluster) d'en savoir plus sur cette fonction de la coordination. Pour vous inscrire au webinaire ...
The Gender-Based Violence Tracker: Shining a light on the gender-based violence response in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tue May 18, 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM CDT / Wed May 19, 12:30 AM - 1:00 AM Your local time (30 Min) The Gender-Based Violence Tracker: Shining a light on the gender-based violence response in the Democratic Republic of Congo The global response to sexual violence in conflict settings is limited by the justifiable reluctance of survivors to come forward. When survivors do come forward, health systems in conflict settings are unable to capture actionable data to guide a multi-sector response. The result is that even the most basic questions about demand for post-rape care in conflict settings are unanswered: How many survivors are there? Where are people seeking care? Where are mass violence events occurring? Is sexual violence increasing or decreasing? The inability to answer these questions results in an insufficient acute emergency response and an inability to tailor, and then measure, the impact of interventions d...
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.
Ending Trafficking and Violence against Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration”
We are pleased to invite you to join us on June 10, 2021 at the webinar “Ending trafficking and violence against women and girls in the context of global migration” which is organised by NGO Atina and European Feminist Network WIDE+. The main intention of this event is to gather civil rights defenders and CSOs representatives active in the thematic areas of migration, women’s, child and human rights, prevention of violence and trafficking, with the goal to understand CEDAW documents and utilise them for advocacy actions, and a specific focus on the General Recommendation No.38 and experiences of the Balkan route countries. Furthermore, the intention is to indicate particular obligations of the states parties, individual institutions and organizations to this recommendation. This knowledge should help organizations to better exert pressure and improve advocacy aimed at state authorities to intensify efforts in prevention and suppression of trafficking in migrant women a...
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.
The pandemic is gendered: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on women in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria
The Gender and COVID-19 Working Group is delighted to be able to invite you to our upcoming webinar “The pandemic is gendered: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on women in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria” on 29 June 2021. During the webinar we will be presenting findings from our multi-country project exploring the social, economic, and health gendered impacts of COVID-19. Please find the details below. Time: 9:00-10:30am (EST) 14:00-15:30 (BST; West Africa Standard Time) 16:00-17:30 (East Africa Time) 19:00-20:30 (Bangladesh Standard Time) Link to register Description: There is mounting evidence that COVID-19 has gendered impacts. Women are bearing the brunt of the secondary effects of the pandemic, changes that are wrought by societal or political responses to the disease. It has impacted on a constellation of human rights – security and bodily integrity, freedom of movement, labour and education, and health and wellbeing. This webinar is an ...