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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
Saima: A Youth Ex-combatant and Her Fight Against GBV, Child Marriage
Moldova + 1 more
GBV Sub-Working Group Moldova: 2024 Refugee Response Plan (RRP) GBV Indicators Guidance (January 2024)
Purpose This document serves to provide guidance to humanitarian agencies and organizations implementing projects with GBV prevention and response activities on how to report on the 2024 Refugee...
UNAIDS welcomes governments’ commitment to end AIDS, tackle gender-based violence, discrimination and inequalities
Resolution on 'Women, the Girl Child and HIV and AIDS' updated, strengthened and adopted by consensus at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women GENEVA/NEW YORK, 25 March 2024---On...
Guidelines and Lessons Learned
Violence against women 60 years and older: Data availability, methodological issues, and recommendations for good practice
This briefing note summarizes work undertaken by UN Women and WHO to inform the development of a module on violence against women 60 years and older that can be included in dedicated surveys on...
Measuring violence against women with disability: Data availability, methodological issues, and recommendations for good practice
Developed as part of the UN Women–WHO Global Joint Programme on Violence Against Women Data, this briefing note focuses on the measurement of violence against women with disability and is one in a...
Moldova + 1 more
GBV Sub-Working Group Moldova: 2024 Refugee Response Plan (RRP) GBV Indicators Guidance (January 2024)
Purpose This document serves to provide guidance to humanitarian agencies and organizations implementing projects with GBV prevention and response activities on how to report on the 2024 Refugee...
Iraq
SEED Foundation Reaffirms Commitment to Combating Violence Against Women and Girls By Launching Activities for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence [EN/AR]
UNITE! Invest to Combat Violence Against Women and Girls Erbil, Iraq - November 25-December 10, 2023: Every year, 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence provides an opportunity to raise...
Iraq + 2 more
Dismantling patriarchy and structural oppression in war and conflict: gender-based violence in Iraq, occupied Palestinian territory and Yemen
Author: Ayesha AlRifai, Abu Hwaij Assurance & Consulting Services Executive summary This paper is a summary of the full comparative study report produced by Abu Hwaij Assurance & Consulting Services...
Iraq: A Gender and Inclusive Climate-Migration Study in Hatra - Ninewa Governorate (June 17th, 2023)
A GENDER AND INCLUSIVE CLIMATE-MIGRATION STUDY, IRAQ As highlighted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Iraq ranks as the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change, with factors...
South Sudan
Accelerating Gender Equality in South Sudan #IWD2024
On March 7th, 2024, the Central Equatoria Women Associated launched a pre-International Women's Day celebration in Terekeka, joined by HealthNet TPO South Sudan. With the theme "Invest in Women:...
Perceptions of Gender and conflict sensitivity considerations in South Sudan
In this blog, Lona Elia Morgan and Livia Oliver discuss the concept of gender and conflicting perceptions of the concept among South Sudanese communities. Based on their extensive gender work, they...
Conflict, gender-based violence and mental health in Lakes State: Perspectives from South Sudan, April 2023
Years of instability in Lakes State, South Sudan, have negatively impacted people’s lives, with the ever-present threats of cattle raiding, revenge killings and tribal conflicts. The threats and...
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