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Webinar Series: Intersections of Disability and GBV - Webinar 3: Moving Things Forward
Building on previous initiatives relating to disability inclusion in GBV programming, the GBV AoR Community of Practice and the Women's Refugee Commission, with support from the Australian Government, present a webinar series about the IASC Disability Guidelines and its intersection with Gender-based Violence. An estimated 15 percent of people globally have a disability, with higher proportions among populations affected by crisis and conflict. Persons with disabilities may face added discrimination due to the intersection of age, gender, disability and other factors, which increases their risk to violence, abuse and exploitation. A range of attitudinal, physical and communication barriers impede their participation and inclusion in humanitarian programs, including GBV prevention and response and gender equality initiatives. The IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action requires that all phases of humanitarian action are disabil...
Happy 3rd Birthday GBV AoR Community of Practice
Happy Third Birthday to the GBV AoR Community of Practice This week the GBV AoR Community of Practice celebrates it’s third birthday (2nd- 9th April!!! With over 896 members, this is the place for GBV professionals working in humanitarian situations to swap information, discuss key issues and celebrate success. Here are some fun facts relating to the CoP.... The first message posted: April 2, 2018 by Beth Vann welcoming everyone to the Community of Practice First non-moderator member: Micah Williams of International Medical Corps (and also a key support for the COP since IMC provides this service to the AOR, Thanks Micah!) Latest member added: Abdulrahman Alfituri of UNFPA Libya (who joined on March 30, 2021 - Welcome Abdulrahman!) Number of Members on April 2, 2018: 40 Number of Members on April 2, 2021: 897 Region with most members deployed: Africa (293) Region with least members deployed: North America (10) Region producing most members: Tie betwee...
Webinar: Integrated GBV and SRH Response to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) during Covid-19
The objective of this webinar is to provide an overview and practical guidance for GBV and SRH programme managers/officers on quality IPV response, with a particular focus on Covid-19 programming adaptation Topics covered will include: Overview of the consequences of IPV Identification of IPV survivors and provision of first-line support Guidance on IPV programme adaptation during Covid-19 Participants question and answer session Date and time: 7th July 11am to 12.15pm (Cairo time) Who is it for: Everybody is welcome. The focus is on UNFPA SRH and GBV colleagues (programme and coordination) working on CMR and IPV response in the Arab States Country offices (both development and humanitarian settings). Meeting ID: 973 8660 8130 Password: 1A#98#
Webinar: Making nutrition programmes safer and more accessible for women and children: sharing learning from an innovative study measuring the effectiveness of GBV risk mitigation interventions in South Sudan
On behalf of the Regional GBV Working Group for East and Southern Africa (ESA) and the Regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG), we are pleased to invite you to a joint webinar facilitated by Action Against Hunger and UNICEF. Please join us for an interactive and engaging session on: ‘Making nutrition programmes safer and more accessible for women and children: sharing learning from an innovative study measuring the effectiveness of GBV risk mitigation interventions in South Sudan.’ This webinar will: Provide an overview of the GBV/Nutrition collaboration underway in South Sudan with key Nutrition and GBV stakeholders from across the region Share highlights from baseline findings from the ongoing study on the effectiveness of GBV risk mitigation in nutrition programming; and Present the GBV risk mitigation programmatic package that will be implemented and measured in the next phase of the study. Please pass this invitation on t...
An overview of gender-based violence risks in the 2023 Syria earthquake response - UNFPA 2023
20 Mar, 2023
In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Syria on February 6, 2023, thousands of people have moved to collective shelters to seek temporary refuge. To date, according to local and government sources, about 6,000 people have been killed and more than 12,000 injured across Syria. Based on the available data and initial assessments and observations, most crisis-affected people in collective shelters are women and children. These shelters lack basic facilities, including gender-segregated latrines and women and men are often sheltered in the same room, without partitions. These living conditions significantly increase the risk of gender-based violence (GBV) incidents. This document provides an overview of the initial GBV risk mitigation issues that are being identified through assessments, monitoring, and direct observation of the earthquake response. It also serves as a basis for some of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) system-wide scale-up operational be...
IN THE AFTERMATH Gender Considerations in Assessments of Syrian Regions Affected by the 2023 Earthquake - UNFPA 2023
20 Mar, 2023
On 6 February 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and multiple severe aftershocks struck Syria and Turkey, affecting multiple governorates including Idlib, Aleppo, Lattakia, and Hama. Prior to the earthquake, 15.3 million people were estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance throughout Syria. For most Syrians, this earthquake only compounds existing suffering; 15 March marks 12 years since the start of the conflict which has caused massive displacement, economic collapse, and widespread violence. With approximately 1.9 million people living in around 1,430 camps or self-settled sites in the north-west of Syria (NWS), with 80 percent (1.5 million) being women and children. Syria remains the world's largest internal displacement crisis. The earthquakes have caused new internal displacement movements and at least 86,000 people were reportedly newly displaced since the earthquake happened. ‘Women and girls are disproportionately affected by crises in comparison to their male counter...
BLOGPOST: Cash actors have the power to mitigate GBV – here are six ways to do it
06 Dec, 2022
Cash actors play an important role in providing assistance that helps to save lives and increases resilience. But it’s also our responsibility to carefully consider any possible Gender-Based Violence (GBV) risks that cash and voucher assistance (CVA) could create for women* who receive it. While there has been great progress in recent years to improve women’s safety when accessing CVA, it’s time to go the extra mile. This year to mark the ‘16 days of activism on Gender Based Violence’ we’re recommending some easy ways to implement GBV risk mitigation measures throughout the CVA program cycle.
Webinar: Transcending Gender Norms: Using gender transformative approaches in Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
Background: In humanitarian settings, gender inequality, one of the root causes of Gender-based Violence, remains the greatest structural barrier to women’s and girls’ participation. GBV practitioners seek to transform these gender hierarchies which legitimize and perpetuate violence against women and girls entangled in conflicts, disasters and displacement through their programming. Women’s and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSS) are used commonly to deliver GBV programming in humanitarian emergencies worldwide and represent a place where women and girls can find safety, community, and healing and work together toward common and personal objectives and empowerment. These spaces offer women and girls unique opportunities to rebuild the social and safety structures lost due to emergencies, cultivate valuable life skills, and link GBV survivors to specialized support. The 2019 Women and Girls Safe Space Toolkit outlined five spec...
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...