Gender-Based Violence

This learning brief introduces climate and disaster risk reduction (DRR) actors to the importance of addressing the connections between GBV and climate change to facilitate more effective and comprehensive climate action in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins with an overview of evidence of how climate change, manifested through both sudden onset disasters (e.g., cyclones, floods) and slow-onset events (e.g. drought) can lead to increased risks of GBV for women and girls, and how, in turn, this creates barriers to climate resilience.

This annotated bibliography provides short summaries of guidance, tools, research and other types of available materials that can support gender-based violence (GBV) actors to design and implement disability inclusive and participatory programs. 

This resource offers practical, experience-based guidance on GEDSI mainstreaming in practice showing how to move from strong analysis to lasting change in policies, systems and programmes.

Women around the world have lived experiences that are different from men, informed
by norms that perpetuate gender inequality. This gender inequality in turn underpins multiple forms of violence that
women and girls are exposed to across their lives. In humanitarian settings, certain types of violence against women
and girls, (VAWG, also referred to as gender-based violence, or GBV) can increase. Women’s rights organizations
(WROs) and women-led organizations (WLOs) with expertise in addressing GBV are often best placed to identify and

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This tipsheet helps health and GBV workers (including volunteers and frontline service providers) to understand the interactions between SRHR and GBV in humanitarian crises. The resource provides information on SRHR and GBV key issues in Niger and the West Africa region, tips on how to approach integration ethically and effectively, and an annotated bibliography of key resources in French and English.

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It is important that both GBV and Protection actors understand when collaboration is appropriate, what should be in place to enable it, and when to advocate for separate programming. This tipsheet provides guidance to actors from both sectors on effective ways of working together that promote evidence-based good practices for survivor support.

This briefing note aims to provide gender-based violence (GBV) practitioners and policymakers with essential information about Mpox, a viral disease. During public health emergencies like Mpox outbreaks, women and children may face increased risk of exposure to disease, greater obstacles to receiving accurate health information and services, and greater likelihood of experiencing GBV.

This resource provides an overview of work undertaken by the Gender-Based Violence Prevention South Sudan (GBVPSS) programme. Launched in 2024 and funded by FCDO, GBVPSS aims to prevent GBV and strengthen access to survivor-centred services for women and girls in South Sudan. To do this, the programme has used UNICEF’s evidence-based social norms change model, Communities Care: Transforming Lives and Preventing Violence.