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SDDirect at the SVRI Forum 2024 brochure

This is the Social Development Direct (SDDirect) event brochure for the SVRI Forum 2024. This interactive document, featuring clickable buttons, showcases SDDirect’s global programmes and highlights the key sessions and events where our colleagues and partners will be actively participating. At the Forum, we focus on our work in gender-based violence and safeguarding, addressing critical issues such as feminist approaches to humanitarian action and violence against LGBTQI+ populations.

Tip Sheet: The Inclusion and Participation of Older Women in GBViE Programs

This tip sheet highlights the importance of inclusion of older women in GBV in emergencies (GBViE) programming. It reviews key terms and concepts related to addressing the needs of older women; examines global data on aging women, and on GBV affecting older women; presents relevant frameworks and tools for improving response and prevention programming; and summarizes tools and resources for further advocacy and action.

Guidance Note on Applying Feminist Approaches to Humanitarian Action

This paper considers the question of whether feminist theories and principles hold the potential to help the humanitarian system better meet many of its highest priorities. Research across the world provides widespread evidence that feminism can benefit not just women and girls, but entire communities and societies.  Already across the UN system, there are strong normative frameworks and rhetorical commitments to women’s rights and empowerment.  Feminist principles are deeply embedded in UN conventions and guidance that are key to humanitarian response. 

Pre-print edition: Guidance Note on Applying Feminist Approaches to Humanitarian Action

Beyond specific efforts to address GBV, this paper considers the question of whether feminist theories and principles hold the potential to help the humanitarian system better meet many other of its highest priorities. The paper begins with a basic primer on feminist theory—what it means, where it comes from, why it is useful, and what its core principles are.

Exploring the links between flooding and violence against women and girls in the Eastern and Southern African region

This report examines how flooding, induced by climate change, disproportionately affects women and girls and increases their risk of experiencing GBV. The report has a particular focus on the Eastern and Southern Africa region. It identifies effective emergency preparedness and response strategies, particularly in the Eastern and Southern African region.  It provides information that is useful to humanitarians, as well as development actors, working in flood-prone contexts.

Opportunities for disability rights and inclusion advocacy in Latin America and the Caribbean

This report identifies international and regional events in Latin America and the Caribbean over the next two years where the UK FCDO can advocate for increased focus on disability rights in the region. Key details such as the event names, dates, locations, and thematic focuses, are presented. These opportunities are mapped against the key outcomes, intervention areas, and enablers for inclusion that are outlined in the FCDO's Disability Inclusion and Rights Strategy.

Prioritizing Safety and Support in Digital Reporting of Gender-Based Violence

This briefing note explores the complexities of using digital tools to make and collect reports of GBV cases. It is written for anyone engaged in developing, working with, or overseeing digital platforms for GBV, including managers, decision-makers, technology developers, and GBV practitioners. The information included in the note is based on a desk review of GBV guidelines, digital development principles, existing digital reporting tools, and codes of conduct.