Identifying & mitigating gender-based violence risks within the COVID-19 response
Identifying & mitigating gender-based violence risks within the COVID-19 response
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2020
- electronic document (16 pages); PDF file
Last updated: 6 April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present an array of challenges, forcing nearly all types of basic service delivery – including, but not limited to, humanitarian response – to
drastically adapt. Given how quickly the outbreak continues to evolve; the variation across contexts in the impact of the disease and the measures being implemented to control its
spread; and the lack of documented good practice for delivering aid and services under such conditions, to a large extent the entire international system is learning as we go.
As such, this document presents an initial summary of potential GBV risk mitigation actions, based on established good practice, that are starting points to address GBV risks in this unprecedented situation. The GBV risk mitigation actions summarized below are presented in the spirit of collective and iterative problem-solving.
This document is intended to support non-GBV specialist humanitarian actors to identify COVID-19, GBV-specific risks in their sectors, and take actions to mitigate those risks. (From the document).
See also the Guidelines for integrating gender-based violence interventions into humanitarian action, 2015 (#5234). Record #6577
PREVENTION
HOUSING
HUMANITARIAN AID
CHILD PROTECTION
COVID-19
EMPLOYMENT
FOOD INSECURITY
HEALTH
INTERVENTION
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PANDEMICS
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
INTERNATIONAL
Last updated: 6 April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present an array of challenges, forcing nearly all types of basic service delivery – including, but not limited to, humanitarian response – to
drastically adapt. Given how quickly the outbreak continues to evolve; the variation across contexts in the impact of the disease and the measures being implemented to control its
spread; and the lack of documented good practice for delivering aid and services under such conditions, to a large extent the entire international system is learning as we go.
As such, this document presents an initial summary of potential GBV risk mitigation actions, based on established good practice, that are starting points to address GBV risks in this unprecedented situation. The GBV risk mitigation actions summarized below are presented in the spirit of collective and iterative problem-solving.
This document is intended to support non-GBV specialist humanitarian actors to identify COVID-19, GBV-specific risks in their sectors, and take actions to mitigate those risks. (From the document).
See also the Guidelines for integrating gender-based violence interventions into humanitarian action, 2015 (#5234). Record #6577
PREVENTION
HOUSING
HUMANITARIAN AID
CHILD PROTECTION
COVID-19
EMPLOYMENT
FOOD INSECURITY
HEALTH
INTERVENTION
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PANDEMICS
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
INTERNATIONAL