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The Myanmar Gender Humanitarian Strategy is anchored on the HCT Commitment on Gender Equality Programming and the 2024 IASC Policy on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls and other IASC instruments especially the IASC Engagement, Participation and Decision-Making by Women-Led Organizations in Humanitarian Action. The strategy will also consider the use of evidence through gender analysis and a gender profile. Included is its alignment to the yearly Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group (GiHA WG) workplan that underlines the key priorities and activities that has been drawn through consultations from identified needs of working groups members that would support and equip them in gender in humanitarian work.
The Myanmar humanitarian crisis affects women, girls, men, and boys differently. Gender and all other aspects of intersectionality are drivers of inequality that determine the capacities of women, girls, men, and boys to cope with the situation and access humanitarian aid, services and their rights. Their vulnerabilities are exacerbated by restricted opportunities including meaningful participation in humanitarian action.
Myanmar’s women and girls have been hit disproportionately by the compounded humanitarian crisis as indicated in the 2024 HNRP: 52 per cent are women, 32 per cent children and 13 per cent with disability.
The participation and leadership of women is critical to the humanitarian response in Myanmar – as it is in crisis-affected countries around the world. Women in emergencies are often the first responders and are key in delivering lifesaving humanitarian aid especially in hard-to-reach areas including on playing important roles on making life-saving contributions and building resilience.