Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action

Reducing risk, promoting resilience and aiding recovery

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Welcome to the website for the 2015 Inter-Agency Standing Committee Gender-based Violence (GBV) Guidelines.

The GBV Guidelines are the key inter-agency resource for integrating GBV risk mitigation across humanitarian action.

The purpose of the GBV Guidelines, endorsed by the IASC in 2015, is to assist humanitarian actors and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of GBV across all sectors of humanitarian response.

The overall goal of the Guidelines is to support humanitarian stakeholders in fulfilling their responsibility to protect all those affected by crises, by:

Reducing risk of GBV by implementing GBV prevention and mitigation strategies from pre-emergency to recovery stages of humanitarian action.

Promoting resilience by strengthening national and community-based systems that prevent and mitigate GBV, and by enabling survivors and those at risk of GBV to access specialized care and support.

Aiding recovery of communities and societies by supporting local and national capacity to create lasting solutions to the problem of GBV.

This site is always being updated, so please check back often for new additions, tools, and resources!