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.
All work with survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) is guided by a set of principles that apply to all interactions of helpers - no matter what their role is - when engaging with survivors.
This note provides information and practical guidance to support GBV practitioners to integrate attention to disability into GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This resource includes a list of tools and resources which offer guidance on how storytelling might be used to explore gender-based violence (GBV) and women's rights with women and communities and support women to become more assertive in a safe way.
This evidence digest highlights selected key research and evidence in relation to livelihoods and GBV programming focusing on two areas where there is an emerging evidence based: economic strengthening interventions to prevent GBV, and cash transfer to rescue GBV risks in emergencies.
This paper explores how specialized gender-based violence in emergency programming can better address the GBV-related experiences, needs and risks facing girls aged 0-11 years.
The aim of this short guidance note is to provide international GBV responders with practical guidance on developing exit strategies and contingency plans. This is to ensure they are prepared should a GBV emergency response program be forced to close permanently and prematurely with little notice. This paper intends to fill a knowledge gap and create a resource that can offer up ways forward which improve sustainability and advance the localization of GBV prevention and response.
This report gives an overview of the situation for people accused of witchcraft, good practice in responding to accusations of witchcraft, and relevant international and regional conventions. It is primarily focussed on Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa but also includes some global evidence to address evidence gaps or provide more examples of good practice.
This learning brief focuses on bystander interventions, with the aim of providing GBV actors with basic information about what constitutes bystander interventions and whether they may be used in humanitarian contexts.
This poster compiles key information on gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) for transit center staff in countries neighboring Ukraine. Readers are provided with a definition of gender-based violence (GBV), are reminded to adhere to the Humanitarian Principles and are provided with strategies that can reduce GBV risks in transit/reception and collective centers. The poster also features a checklist for staff to Look, Listen, Link in order to support survivors of GBV. This version is in Ukrainian.
This poster compiles key information on gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) for transit center staff in countries neighboring Ukraine. Readers are provided with a definition of gender-based violence (GBV), are reminded to adhere to the Humanitarian Principles and are provided with strategies that can reduce GBV risks in transit/reception and collective centers. The poster also features a checklist for staff to Look, Listen, Link in order to support survivors of GBV. This version is in English.
