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Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Handbook for Coordinating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Emergencies (2019)

09/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Published: 9/2019. This 324-page handbook, updated from the 2010 edition, is a quick-reference tool that provides practical, field-level guidance to establish and maintain a gender-based violence sub-cluster in a humanitarian emergency. It provides the foundations for coordination. As a second edition, this handbook provides updates to practitioners on humanitarian reforms, lessons learned, promising practices, and resources that have emerged since its first publication in 2010. (PDF)

SGBV (Sexual and Gender-Based Violence) Response, Risk Mitigation and Prevention in Humanitarian Crises: A Synthesis of Findings from Evaluations of UNHCR Operations 2019

09/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Published: 9/2019. This 29-page report is a synthesis of key findings from evaluations of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) approaches to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in humanitarian crises, with a focus on the years 2016-18. The synthesis aims to identify recurrent issues, patterns, trends, promising initiatives. and lessons learned from existing programming, including mainstreaming in how UNHCR prevents, mitigates, and responds to the risks of SGBV; and the extent to which questions on SGBV are part of UNHCR evaluations of emergency responses. (PDF)