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Promouvoir la localisation à travers les mécanismes de coordination humanitaire
Ces dernières années, les appels lancés aux agences humanitaires et aux donateurs pour qu'ils soient "aussi locaux que possible et aussi internationaux que nécessaire" ont dominé le dialogue au sein de l'espace humanitaire, avec des discours sur la manière dont cet objectif peut être atteint. Malgré les efforts déployés dans ce sens, l'accès des acteurs locaux et nationaux (ALN) au système de coordination humanitaire et leur participation, leur représentation et leur leadership restent variés et limités. On ne saurait trop insister sur les avantages et les bénéfices d'une coordination des clusters qui intègre de manière significative les acteurs locaux et nationaux, et il est donc important que les mécanismes de coordination des clusters soutiennent des efforts significatifs en matière de localisation. C'est sur cette base que le groupe mondial de coordination des clusters cherche à organiser une série de sessions d'apprentissage et d'échange pour les membres des cl...
Gaza Crisis: Gender Based Violence Concerns and Priorities Information & Advocacy Note: 20 October 2023
21 Oct, 2023
Since 7 October, heavy bombardments and displacement throughout Gaza have left civilians in dire humanitarian need, with the situation turning into a catastrophe – especially for the estimated 1.1 million women and girls. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gaza is currently estimated at around one million (half the population), with a large part of that population living in overcrowded and under-supplied shelters with food, water, and fuel running out – and basic and life-sustaining services becoming more inaccessible. The UN Secretary-General has called for a “humanitarian ceasefire” and that “Gaza needs aid at scale and on a sustained basis”. Civilians, healthcare infrastructure, and schools are not a target - all parties to the conflict must respect international humanitarian law.
Priority Life-Saving Actions: For Gender-Based Violence Prevention, Risk Mitigation and Response in Gaza
23 Oct, 2023
Follow your organization’s safety and security measures/instructions at all times before helping others. While the current conditions are severely constraining the provision of GBV response on the ground, preparations can be undertaken for a quick and coordinated gender-based violence (GBV) response once communication lines re-open and services can be resumed. The following life-saving interventions should be prioritized as soon as possible by GBV service providers operational in Gaza to ensure GBV survivors and those at risk of violence have access to essential services and goods such as medical care, psychosocial support, safety, protection and feminine hygiene products.
Briefing note about the crisis in Haiti - GBV Subcluster - Women & Girl's 16 Days of Activism campaign 2023
07 Dec, 2023
Crisis Context : Over the past year, gang violence dramatically increased and armed gangs’ violence has expanded. There is an increase in reports of elders, women and girls being brutally raped, tortured and kidnapped by gangs. The GBV sub-cluster estimates that 1,171,183 people will need assistance in 2024, 97% of them are girls and women, 51% in the west and 23% in Artibonite. The main risk factors for GBV are the incursion of armed gangs in communities, forced population displacement and food insecurity.
Localization Task Team: Africa Regional Workshop Final Report - Dec 2019
20 Dec, 2019
On 3-5 September 2019, the Localisation Task Team of the Gender- Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) held an Africa regional workshop focused on the engagement of local actors – particularly women-led organisations-- in humanitarian GBV prevention, response, and coordination activities. Held in Nairobi, Kenya, it brought together 33 participants from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia, as well as global and regional actors. Eighteen women from Local and National Women Led organisations participated in the workshop. GBV sub-cluster coordinators, regional emergency GBV advisor (REGA) and global representatives from GBV AoR and Call to Action also took part in the discussions. One government official from Somaliland was also present. The diagram below shows the representation of participants by country and by national and international organisations.
The Crisis in Tigray: Women and Girls Under Violent Assault
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security The Crisis in Tigray: Women and Girls Under Violent Assault 10:00AM-11:15AM EDT RSVP here for the virtual event Civil war rages on in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and women and girls are under attack. Amidst a media blackout, the world is just learning of the scope of the brutality. Coordinated rapes in Tigray are being deliberately used as a weapon of war and only one medical facility in the region is equipped to respond to rape survivors. The violence in Tigray has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. The UN Security Council has yet to act. Join leading policymakers and voices from Tigray and the greater region for an important discussion on what is happening, and what can be done to counter the human rights violations and atrocities committed against women and girls. Featuring: The Honorable Pramila Patten UN Special R...
Virtual Event: Access for Protection Through Participation: Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Communities
We are excited to invite to you our thematic virtual event on Wednesday 26th October at 10:00AM – 11:30AM CEST : ‘ACCESS FOR PROTECTION THROUGH PARTICIPATION: WORKING WITH CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES’ Overview: This interactive session will provide space to share learnings and promote exchange from projects and research being undertaken by the Global GBV and CP AoR, the Alliance for Children Protection in Humanitarian Action, and Save the Children, in partnership with communities and child / adolescent organisations. It will also be a chance to present research findings and recommendations for humanitarian involvement in community negotiations since the 2021 Global Protection Forum and to gather insights from an expert audience. A set of recommendations will be developed from the panel presentations and discussion based upon practical examples and the lived experience of young people in humanitarian settings on how to enhance acce...
GBV Considerations for Women and Girls- Cash in Ukraine and the Regional Refugee Response- UNFPA 2022
05 Apr, 2022
Cash assistance is a modality that will be used extensively inside conflict-affected Ukraine and in the regional refugee response, where feasible and appropriate (1). Given that the large majority of Ukrainian refugees are women and children, it is critical to ensure that cash programming does not put this particularly vulnerable population at further risk. This summary is a joint effort by the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Sub-Cluster/Working Groups and Cash Working Groups in Ukraine and the regional refugee response and it will revised periodically*. It aims to provide preliminary GBV considerations for humanitarian actors providing cash assistance to conflict-affected residents, IDPs, refugees and host communities. It also outlines key messages and hotline contacts to support cash actors in their coordination with protection counterparts. The following points are meant to orient cash actors in the way that they mainstream GBV risk mitigation into their progra...
قسائم شرائية لتغطية المواد األساسية وللوقاية من العنف القائم على النوع االجتماعي: فلسـطيـن
04 Oct, 2021
مع تفشي وباء كوفيد-19 ،تفاقمت مخاطر التعرض للعنف القائم على النوع االجتماعي بالنسبة للنساء والفتيات يف فلسطين. وقد ورد إلى صندوق األمم المتحدة للسكان من قبل الفئة المعنية من النساء أن ًا يف تفاقم هذه المخاطر تضاؤل الفرص االقتصادية فضالً عن الضغوط واألزمات المالية قد أسهموا جميع ً لالحتياجات ً لذلك، قدم صندوق األمم المتحدة للسكان قسائم شرائية تلبية إلى حدٍ بعيد. واستجابة الملحة لألسر ذات األوضاع االقتصادية الهشة وللنساء المعرضات لخطر العنف القائم على النوع ٍ من غزة والقدس الشرقية. وقد جاءت معدالت رضا المستفيدون عن هذه المساعدات االجتماعي يف كل مرتفعة إبان مراقبات ما بعد التوزيع. ففي قطاع غزة، أبلغ %97 من المستفيدين أن هذا البرنامج كان له تأثير إيجابي على صحتهم النفسية.
VOICE PRESENTS A LIVE WEBINAR: A 24-HOUR TRUCE
VOICE PRESENTS A LIVE WEBINAR: A 24-HOUR TRUCE Tuesday, June 29th at 10:30am Eastern / 7:30am Pacific VOICE is bringing together women and girls from around the world to discuss what it would be like if we had one day, just 24 hours, without sexual assault. "I want one day of respite, one day off, one day in which no new bodies are piled up, one day in which no new agony is added to the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask for less -- it is so little. And how could you offer me less: it is so little. Even in wars, there are days of truce. Go and organizing a truce. Stop your side for one day." - Andrea Dworkin In 1983, Andrea Dworkin gave a speech she called “TAKE BACK THE DAY: I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape”, which was published in 1984. Her speech is famous for its uncompromising naming of sexual violence – and rape in particular – as the embodiment of a sex-bas...