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Women-led organizations and women's rights organizations have played a central role in responding to the war in Ukraine and refugee hosting countries, providing frontline services, addressing...

Introduction Since 2022, the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group (GiHA WG) in Ukraine has been actively working to integrate gender equality and women’s empowerment into humanitarian response...

Background The Gender Working Group (GWG) in the Syria cross-border humanitarian operation works to facilitate and deliver on agreed Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) commitments to mainstream...

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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...

INTRODUCTION The Gender in Humanitarian Action Funding Taskforce1 was created in 2024 to pool evidence and expertise generated by members and to identify tangible action points towards improved...

This strategy is guided by the work already achieved by the PSEA Network in Ethiopia since its inception in 2018, and the current volatile humanitarian situation. It is designed to prioritise the key...

Background In 2016, the Ethiopian Humanitarian Country Team (EHCT) requested the Protection Cluster to develop a national strategy to support inter-agency efforts to prevent and to respond to sexual...

Background: On 6 February 2023, two devastating earthquakes measuring 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude struck Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye. According to the latest information from the Turkish Disaster and Emergency...

The “Women with disabilities stigma inventory” (WDSI) was developed as part of the project “Addressing stigma and discrimination experienced by women with disabilities” (ASDWD) project, which was...

Background and Introduction UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the...

I. Introduction This note is meant to be used by all UN and non-UN entities working in South Sudan to handle allegation of staff and affiliated personnel participating in “child booking”. By virtue...

Gender bonds emerge as promising instruments for financing initiatives aimed at mitigating gender equality and bolstering women's empowerment. They present both corporate and sovereign issuers the...

I.OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF WORK The aim of the Gender Working Group (GWG) is to facilitate and deliver on agreed IASC commitments on advancing gender equality and gender mainstreaming into humanitarian...

This brochure summarizes UN Women’s strategic note (SN) for Côte d’Ivoire, 2021–2025, which provides a roadmap for improving the lives of women and girls in Côte d’Ivoire. The SN articulates UN...

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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...

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...

Protection actors work closely with line Ministries and local authorities to support the identification and referral of men, women, boys, and girls who may not yet have registered, as well as to...

Quality education provides physical, psychosocial and cognitive protection that can sustain lives and contributes directly to the economic, social and political stability of countries. Effectively...