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Gender-Based Violence

Our role on GBV prevention and response
 

An image of women's hands palm-faced down touching fingertips in a circular position. 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.


GBV Resource Library

 

Our library of resources on GBV prevention and response contains over 300 documents including guidance notes, programming tools, research and practice-based learning from previous and current programmes.
 

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If you would like to hear more about our work on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), please reach out to Tina Musuya, Head of the GBV Portfolio, tina.musuya@sddirect.org.uk.

Further Resources on GBV Prevention and Response

Fiche-Conseils : Des visites d’assistance technique efficaces et encourageantes en matière de lutte conte la VBG

Cette fiche de conseils fournit des indications pratiques et brèves sur la conduite des visites de soutien à l'assistance technique. Elle s'adresse aux conseillers techniques en charge de la lutte contre la violence liée au sexe, qu'ils soient nouveaux ou actuels, qui pourront y trouver un rappel utile des informations essentielles. Ces ressources se concentrent sur les visites de sites en personne et non sur l'assistance à distance. 

ورقة النصائح: زيارات المساعدة التقنية الفعالة والداعمة في مجال العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي

تهدف هذه الورقة الإرشادية إلى تقديم إرشادات عملية ومختصرة حول إجراء زيارات دعم المساعدة الفنية. وهي موجهة إلى المستشارين الفنيين الجدد في مجال العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي وكذلك المستشارين الفنيين الحاليين الذين قد يجدونها تذكيرًا مفيدًا بالمعلومات الأساسية. تركز هذه الموارد على الزيارات الميدانية الشخصية وليس المساعدة عن بُعد. 

التمويل اإلنساني للمنظمات والجمعات النسائية الوطنية / المحلية

يحدد هذا التقرير مجموعة من فرص التمويل للمنظمات الوطنية والمحلية المعنية بحقوق المرأة للمساعدة في منع العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي في حالات الطوارئ والاستجابة له.

Gemma Ferguson

Gemma Ferguson

Gemma Ferguson

Principal Consultant

Gemma Ferguson is a Principal Consultant in the GBV team. She brings two decades of experience working at the intersection of media and social development, with a special focus on gender, social behaviour change and social norms programming.

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.

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