Institutional Framework for Addressing Gender

TARGET GROUP: FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES

OBJECTIVES

·        To reinforce IOM’s accountability to crisis-affected populations, partners, and donors by articulating and advocating a robust and consistent approach to quality GBV interventions as an essential part of IOM crisis operations.

SUMMARY

Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most widespread human rights abuses in the world, affecting individuals everywhere, with consequences that reach beyond the individual and can affect entire families and communities. Humanitarian crises and situations of fragility more broadly can exacerbate exposure to different forms of GBV. GBV interventions refer to core crisis programming activities that can remedy, mitigate, or avert direct loss of life, physical or psychological harm and threats to a person’s dignity and well-being. Therefore, specific measures and interventions to mitigate, respond to and prevent GBV must be undertaken from the onset of a crisis and continue through transition and recovery efforts in all IOM sectors and programmes. Crisis operations that do not take into account vulnerabilities to GBV cannot adequately adhere to common standards that promote gender equality, conflict-sensitivity and protection principles. As such, these operations can in fact exacerbate the risk of GBV and represent a failure on the part of the Organization to fully promote, respect and protect the rights of affected populations, particularly those of women and girls.

REFERENCE

https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/iom_gbvic_framework.pdf