Our global Gender-Based Violence (GBV) team provides strategic technical support to actors across the GBV ecosystem from donors to community-level women-led organisations. We are a multi-disciplinary team delivering programme design and implementation support, advocacy, research reports, MEL and helpdesk services.
Our team aspires to apply our feminist principles in all our work and to support sustained and transformative change. We partner with diverse stakeholders and we take an intersectional approach to our work on GBV prevention and response across development and humanitarian contexts.
Our work includes primary prevention programming, community-level response to GBV and SEAH, school-related GBV, GBV in Emergencies, Technology-Facilitated GBV, Violence against LGBTQI+ communities, and GBV in Climate and Economic programming.
Read more about our current work or search our extensive GBV Resource Library below.
This paper explores how specialized gender-based violence in emergency programming can better address the GBV-related experiences, needs and risks facing girls aged 0-11 years.
The aim of this short guidance note is to provide international GBV responders with practical guidance on developing exit strategies and contingency plans. This is to ensure they are prepared should a GBV emergency response program be forced to close permanently and prematurely with little notice. This paper intends to fill a knowledge gap and create a resource that can offer up ways forward which improve sustainability and advance the localization of GBV prevention and response.
This report gives an overview of the situation for people accused of witchcraft, good practice in responding to accusations of witchcraft, and relevant international and regional conventions. It is primarily focussed on Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa but also includes some global evidence to address evidence gaps or provide more examples of good practice.
This learning brief focuses on bystander interventions, with the aim of providing GBV actors with basic information about what constitutes bystander interventions and whether they may be used in humanitarian contexts.
This poster compiles key information on gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) for transit center staff in countries neighboring Ukraine. Readers are provided with a definition of gender-based violence (GBV), are reminded to adhere to the Humanitarian Principles and are provided with strategies that can reduce GBV risks in transit/reception and collective centers. The poster also features a checklist for staff to Look, Listen, Link in order to support survivors of GBV. This version is in Ukrainian.
This poster compiles key information on gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) for transit center staff in countries neighboring Ukraine. Readers are provided with a definition of gender-based violence (GBV), are reminded to adhere to the Humanitarian Principles and are provided with strategies that can reduce GBV risks in transit/reception and collective centers. The poster also features a checklist for staff to Look, Listen, Link in order to support survivors of GBV. This version is in English.
This resource features annotations of guidance related to participation and inclusion in response programming both for GBV response and more generally in GBV risk mitigation in other sectors. Specifically, this includes guidance on: ensuring safe participation and inclusion in assessments; setting response priorities; how age, gender and disability affect women and girls' priorities in emergencies; and how humanitarians can ensure this is taken into account throughout the program cycle.
У цій статті представлено кабінетний огляд ресурсів і матеріалів щодо гендерно зумовленого насильства (ГЗН), які можуть підтримати гуманітарне реагування під час війни в Україні (2022 р.).
This paper presents a desk review of GBV resources and materials that can support GBV humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine (2022). It features technical resources useful for GBV responders, as well as GBV services in Ukraine and neighboring countries. This document has been updated periodically since the onset of the crisis, with the latest version produced on July 18, 2022. The updates are now closed.
This paper offers practical guidance to gender-based violence (GBV) practitioners on how to support survivors who find themselves pregnant as a result of rape.
