Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action – Reducing risk, promoting resilience and aiding recovery

COVID-19 has detrimental impacts on women and girls in all their diversity around the world. We have collected key resources on addressing gender inequality and gender-based violence in COVID-19 preparedness and emergency response.

COVID-19 Resources

The tipsheet identifies key, sector-specific GBV risks that we believe are likely to occur and/or be exacerbated during the Covid response, along with recommendations on how to mitigate these risks.

It is meant to be a living document and we intend to update it frequently as new information and promising practice emerges from the field. So please stay in touch - reach out to the GBV Guidelines team with any questions or concerns, and please do share information with us about what is or isn't working.

Now available: Identifying & Mitigating Gender-based Violence Risks within the COVID-19 Response
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The GBV Guidelines have been revised from the 2005 version by an inter-agency Task Team led by UNICEF and UNFPA, and endorsed by the IASC in 2015.

The purpose of the Guidelines 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.

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

The GBV Guidelines have been revised from the 2005 version by an inter-agency Task Team led by UNICEF and UNFPA, and endorsed by the IASC in 2015.

The purpose of the Guidelines 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.

How to provide psychological first aid in emergencies

In this episode of the Women's Protection Empower Podcast, we talk with Sonia Rastogi and Jessica Izquierdo of the GBV Guidelines Implementation Support Team about psychological first aid, the need, the practice, related self-care practices, and where to learn more.

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