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Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence: What Are the Links? - GBV AoR Helpdesk 2021
30 Mar, 2021
This learning brief is part of a series of knowledge products produced by the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) Helpdesk. UNFPA colleagues have partnered in the development and finalization of the content. To supplement the desk review that informs this learning brief, the Helpdesk also undertook interviews with ten colleagues working in humanitarian settings around the world with expertise in climate change and/or addressing GBV in climate-affected settings.
GBV AoR Regional Teams Support - Annual Report 2021
23 Dec, 2022
The Regional Emergency GBV Advisor (REGA) project was established in 2014, to strengthen system-wide capacities and promote collective accountability to GBV prevention, response and risk mitigation. The project is field-focused, and strengthens country-level gender-based violence (GBV) sub-clusters coordination in emergencies. The REGA project\mechanism was established through a strategic partnership between UNFPA, NORCAP and the GBV AoR. The GBV AoR, with UNFPA as its lead agency, is a functional component of the Global Protection Cluster.
Finding Ways and Means to Deliver Gender-based Violence Programming in Hostile Environments - GBV AoR Helpdesk 2023
16 Oct, 2023
This learning brief discusses a range of strategies and methods humanitarian actors can use to support and sustain GBV response and prevention programming in hostile contexts. It outlines what ‘hostile contexts’ refers to in this paper, and why it is important for GBV program managers and service providers to be able to identify and adapt to rapid or incremental increases in hostility in humanitarian environments, which are likely to adversely impact the implementation of GBV prevention and response programming. The paper discusses some of the risks women and girls face in these high-risk environments and concludes with several key considerations for GBV specialists.
COVID-19 vaccine rollout – What do we know from past public health emergencies about gender-based violence risks and gender related barriers to vaccine access
29 Apr, 2021
As initiatives for large-scale global distribution of COVID-19 vaccine get underway, this report looks at what is known from past public health emergencies and vaccination campaigns to understand gender-related barriers that women and girls may face in accessing the vaccine, as well as risks of gender-based violence (GBV) related to vaccine distribution for women and girls at the community level and female health workers.
Gender-Based Violence Secondary Data Review: Ukraine - GBV AoR 2022
18 May, 2022
Multiple forms of GBV are being reported, with particularly high insecurity and risk for women and girls on the move, at border crossing points and transit/collective centres, and in bomb shelters. This includes reports of intimate partner violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, sexual violence (including conflict-related sexual violence), and economic abuse. There is a high risk of trafficking for sexual exploitation at borders where registration is patchy, little control of documents, and young women are often not accompanied by other family member.