2015 Annual Narrative Report of IASC Gender Standby Capacity Project
Project Overview and Management
Overview of the GenCap Project
The GenCap Project is as an inter-agency resource, which was established in 2007 under the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Sub-Working Group on Gender and Humanitarian Action (now the Gender Reference Group and Humanitarian Action). The Project aims to support humanitarian actors mainstream gender through three pillars:
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Deployment of senior gender experts;
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Gender training delivery and capacity building; and
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Building ownership and awareness of Gender Equality Programming (GEP).
The Project objectives and activities are guided by the 2014 to 2016 GenCap strategy. In 2015, slight modifications were made to the strategy, but with the following overarching objectives: -
Maintaining a core team of GenCap Advisors to strengthen the ability to deploy high calibre senior experts at country, regional, global level in support of a collaborative approach with relevant humanitarian actors
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Strengthening the synergies in the filed between GenCap, GBV and ProCap advisors.