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What is this Learning Brief?
This Learning Brief highlights 20 good practices on Gender and Gender-Based Violence Risk Mitigation (GBV RM) integration by Education Clusters throughout the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC). It features country examples with initiatives led by Education Clusters or conducted through intersectoral collaboration with the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) and the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working group (GiHA WG1 ). The Learning Brief and its three associated country case studies (Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria) contribute to operationalising the Global Education Cluster’s (GEC) commitment to generating evidence and supporting the scale-up of Gender and GBV RM integration by Education Cluster coordination teams and members. This Brief provides tips on how to capitalise on enabling factors, bridge gaps, overcome challenges and adapt good practices to other contexts in collaboration with Gender and GBV experts.
This Brief refers to gender integration2 as actions that ensure that the particular needs, capacities and priorities of women, girls, men and boys — related to pre-existing gender roles and inequalities, along with the specific impacts of the crisis — are recognised and addressed in coordinated Education in Emergencies (EiE) response. It contributes to realising the right to meaningful and relevant participation (including of girls and boys), affords protection, increases access to assistance and self-reliance and promotes transformative change.
It refers to Gender-Based Violence3 Risk Mitigation as a range of activities that aim to identify GBV risks and take specific actions to reduce those risks. GBV RM is the process of ensuring that humanitarian interventions across all Clusters
1 do not cause or increase the likelihood of GBV
2 proactively facilitate and monitor marginalised groups’ access to services
3 seek to identify and take action to mitigate GBV risks, and
4 link to available GBV services4.