Our global Gender-Based Violence (GBV) team provides strategic technical support to actors across the GBV ecosystem from donors to community-level women-led organisations. We are a multi-disciplinary team delivering programme design and implementation support, advocacy, research reports, MEL and helpdesk services.
Our team aspires to apply our feminist principles in all our work and to support sustained and transformative change. We partner with diverse stakeholders and we take an intersectional approach to our work on GBV prevention and response across development and humanitarian contexts.
Our work includes primary prevention programming, community-level response to GBV and SEAH, school-related GBV, GBV in Emergencies, Technology-Facilitated GBV, Violence against LGBTQI+ communities, and GBV in Climate and Economic programming.
Read more about our current work or search our extensive GBV Resource Library below.
This report discusses risks for women frontline healthcare workers in the COVID-19 response and proposes actions for mitigating these risks. Data suggests that the majority of frontline healthcare workers in the COVID-19 response are women.
This document provides guidance to frontline child protection workers to help them effectively and safely support displaced girls who have experienced GBV and boys who have experienced sexual violence crossing international borders.
Despite the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) commitment to achieve universal legal identity, over 110 low and middle-income countries lack fully functioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems.
The withdrawal of Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) services will directly affect the lives of women and girls. Failing to engage local women and girls in discussions about sustainability of services goes against WGSS goals and principles and can jeopardize women and girls' safety.
This report is based on an online desk review of programming approaches and evidence relevant for preventing sexual harassment - specifically sexual harassment in public space, sometimes referred to as 'street harassment' - in humanitarian settings.
This report details the impact of COVID-19 on female migrant domestic workers in the Middle East, paying particular attention to their vulnerability to GBV and the challenges they face in accessing services. This version has been translated into Arabic.
This report provides an overview of the evidence on GBV screening in antenatal healthcare settings and the conditions that must be present before instituting a routing screening intervention.
Updated May 2023
This paper provides insights into the experiences of refugee and migrant women and girls during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia, paying attention to their vulnerability to GBV.
Evidence on how the Covid-19 pandemic might impact on violence against women and girls.
This evidence digest will explore emerging research on the nature and effectiveness of efforts to work with men and boys to promote gender equality and prevent gender-based violence (GBV).
