Accountability on GBV in Emergencies
Introduction
The Real-Time Accountability Partnership
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a widespread and well-recognised threat to the health, well-being, opportunities and lives of women and girls worldwide. The risks and realities of GBV are greatly exacerbated when a disaster strikes. Recognising the need for broad-based, fast and mutually responsible action to address GBV prevention and response in humanitarian responses, six key global-level humanitarian agencies - the International Rescue Committee (IRC), OCHA, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNHCR, and USAID’s Office of United States Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) - have formed the Real-Time Accountability Partnership (RTAP).
The RTAP aims to ensure that all individuals, particularly women and girls, are free from the threat of GBV. The RTAP's goal is that all actors prioritise and coordinate GBV response services and integrate GBV prevention across sectors from the outset of an emergency. The centrepiece of RTAP is the Action Framework.
To promote system-wide accountability for GBV prevention and response in emergencies, RTAP members have outlined roles, responsibilities and actions related to prioritisation of GBV that should be taken during an emergency, captured in the RTAP Action Framework. These actions fall within the responsibility of donors, humanitarian coordinators, humanitarian country teams, GBV coordination leads, agencies with responsibility to mainstream GBV, and entities with specialised GBV programming and expertise. The Action Framework is predicated upon a baseline assessment of GBV programming in five country-based humanitarian responses as well as existing international guidelines, best practice, and learning from the RTAP baseline assessment carried out in 2016.
Overview
RTAP Action Framework
Click on one phase and one agent to see the related RTAP Framework actions.
To select another one, just click on another phase/actor.
To see the full framework please see the spreadsheet in english and french.
GBV reports
Bangladesh + 1 more
GBV Trends Among Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar: COVID-19 update
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Better Gender Outcomes in Food Assistance through Complementary and Multi-Modal Programing
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Open Letter Calling on the Government of Myanmar and Partners in Development to Meaningfully Include Women’s Rights Organisations in Gender-Equitable Implementation of the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan [EN/MY]
Since the emergence of COVID-19 in Myanmar, women’s rights and women-led civil society organizations have played a leading role in supporting the national response led by the Government. A rapid,...
Guidelines and Lessons Learned
Note d’Orientation pour la protection de l’enfance pendant la pandémie de Coronavirus (COVID-19) en RDC – Sous Cluster Protection de l’Enfance (GTPE) RDC – janvier 2021 (version 2)
Le 11 mars 2020, l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) a déclaré l’épidémie de maladie à Coronavirus (COVID-19) comme pandémie. Le virus touche de nombreux pays et territoires inclus la...
Assessment on home gardening program as a response to COVID-19 in SLM project's pilot townships, January 2021
About the assessment The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is working closely with Department of Planning of Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MoALI) in...
Ethiopia 2020 Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Strategy
PSEA Strategy's Endorsement We the undersigned members of the humanitarian and development community in Ethiopia, hereby commit to implement and monitor in a coordinated and meaningful manner this...
Iraq
Iraq + 1 more
Denmark Supports UNITAD Investigating Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes and Crimes Against Children [EN/AR]
Baghdad, 11 December 2020 – Denmark has signed an agreement to provide financial support to the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL...
Iraq + 5 more
Act now: for Gender Equity
Please refer to the attached Infographic.
COVID-19 exacerbating gender-based violence in Iraq [EN/AR/KU]
This year, the world marks the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), which starts on November 25, in unprecedented circumstances. The COVID-19 pandemic required governments to...
South Sudan
South Sudan: Protection and Gender-Based Violence Quarter 3 Report 2020
Protection The International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Protection team conducted protection needs assessments in Central Equatoria, Jonglei and Northern Bahr el Ghazal states. The...
Radio programming can play crucial role in ending gender-based violence in Northern-Bahr-el-Ghazal
EMMANUEL KELE Communities of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal have been sensitized on how to report incidents of sexual harassment, abuse and violence against women. This happened during a radio discussion...
Closing the Gender Gap in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme Guidance – March 2020
This programme guide is intended to support humanitarian staff primarily working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in South Sudan to actively prepare and encourage more women to...
Resources
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Contacts
Gina Bramucci
Deputy Director for Emergencies
Violence Prevention & Response Unit,
International Rescue Committee
Gina.Bramucci@rescue.org
Emily Krasnor
GBV in Emergencies Specialist,
Humanitarian and Fragile Contexts Branch, UNFPA
krasnor@unfpa.org