Enhancing Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action
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Gender
Reference
Group
WHS
Outcomes
20% of all commitments made to the WHS targeted
actions for GEWE or mainstreaming gender
Consensus on the need to draw on the skills,
expertise, and abilities of local women and women’s
groups.
Central to empowering women and positioning
them as central actors, leaders, and agents of
change in humanitarian action.
IASC Gender
Policy Update
The GRG conducted in 2015 a review of the IASC’s 2008
Gender Policy Statement. It found that:
The policy was inconsistently implemented across the IASC
A lack of gender in humanitarian action capacity with the IASC
and HCTs, and the absence of an accountability mechanism
Important institutional changes – such as the TA – failed to
adequately reflect the commitments of the
As the GRG Chair, UN Women will also lead on the revision of
IASC’s 2008 Gender Policy and create an accountability
framework.
Key Items to
Consider
An update of the policy will assist the humanitarian
coordination system to compliment the core WHS
commitments by
:
Update and establish steps and defined roles and responsibilities to
ensure the use of SADD and context-specific gender analysis,
throughout the HPC process.
Ensuring inclusion of local and national women’s groups and gender
expertise in clusters
Ensuring that humanitarian country teams gender focal points are
filled and are at sufficiently senior levels
Establishing targets to ensure that humanitarian country teams
achieve gender parity in staffing at all levels
Creation of an Accountability Framework
Process
•
Conduct an Expert Group Meeting.
•
Establish a Steering Committee made up of key
stakeholders.
•
Conduct a series of consultations with identified key
stakeholders, including:
o
IASC Working Group and Secretariat
o
IASC Member Agency representatives;
o
Global Cluster Coordinators;
•
Identify comparable Accountability Frameworks to
identify best practice and working models for adaptation.
•
Present outline of policy revision content and potential
accountability frameworks to IASC Working Group for
comment and endorsement.
The Gender Reference Group (GRG) conducted a review in 2015 of the IASC's Gender Policy Statement, highlighting inconsistent implementation and lack of gender capacity. As the GRG Chair, UN Women will lead the revision of the 2008 Gender Policy to establish an accountability framework. This update aims to complement WHS commitments by defining roles, ensuring gender analysis in the HPC process, including local women's groups, achieving gender parity in staffing, and creating an Accountability Framework through expert group meetings and stakeholder consultations.
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Gender Reference Group
WHS Outcomes 20% of all commitments made to the WHS targeted actions for GEWE or mainstreaming gender Consensus on the need to draw on the skills, expertise, and abilities of local women and women s groups. Central to empowering women and positioning them as central actors, leaders, and agents of change in humanitarian action.
The GRG conducted in 2015 a review of the IASCs 2008 Gender Policy Statement. It found that: IASC Gender Policy Update The policy was inconsistently implemented across the IASC A lack of gender in humanitarian action capacity with the IASC and HCTs, and the absence of an accountability mechanism Important institutional changes such as the TA failed to adequately reflect the commitments of the As the GRG Chair, UN Women will also lead on the revision of IASC s 2008 Gender Policy and create an accountability framework.
An update of the policy will assist the humanitarian coordination system to compliment the core WHS commitments by: Update and establish steps and defined roles and responsibilities to ensure the use of SADD and context-specific gender analysis, throughout the HPC process. Ensuring inclusion of local and national women s groups and gender expertise in clusters Ensuring that humanitarian country teams gender focal points are filled and are at sufficiently senior levels Establishing targets to ensure that humanitarian country teams achieve gender parity in staffing at all levels Creation of an Accountability Framework Key Items to Consider
Conduct an Expert Group Meeting. Establish a Steering Committee made up of key stakeholders. Process Conduct a series of consultations with identified key stakeholders, including: o IASC Working Group and Secretariat o IASC Member Agency representatives; o Global Cluster Coordinators; Identify comparable Accountability Frameworks to identify best practice and working models for adaptation. Present outline of policy revision content and potential accountability frameworks to IASC Working Group for comment and endorsement.
