Standard Operating Procedures for Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response

TARGET GROUP: WOMEN

OBJECTIVES

·        To develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in an emergency setting to promote coordination in service delivery and to boost coordination and enhance the quality of GBV programming for both response and prevention.

·        To ensure quality, coordination and coherence among organizations and actors.

·        To facilitate joint action by all actors to respond to, prevent and mitigate GBV within the Syrian humanitarian response.

·        To improve services offered to GBV survivors and all individuals exposed to GBV.

SUMMARY

The SOPs were developed by the Whole of Syria (WoS) Turkey hub GBV Sub-Cluster (GBV SC) for areas reachable through cross-border operations in Syria from Turkey or other locations still under the mandate of the Turkey hub coordination mechanism. The GBV SC is the coordinating body established in 2015 with the objective to strengthen GBV prevention, response and coordination in areas of Syria reachable though cross-border intervention from Turkey. It works to facilitate multi-sectoral, inter-agency actions aimed to prevent GBV, and to ensure the provision of accessible, timely and survivor-centered GBV response services. The GBV SC develops and implements the operational GBV strategy for cross-border Turkey within the broader GBV WoS strategy as outlined in the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). A steering committee was established (comprising two national NGO representatives, one international INGO representative and GBV SC Coordinators) to develop the SOPs, supported by an international consultant. The Steering Committee was comprised of individuals with in-depth knowledge of the existing GBV SC Turkey hub SOPs and practical experience in supporting GBV survivors (including through case management) or supervising a team of people delivering GBV services. They all represented GBV SC members and are signatories to the existing GBV SC SOPs.

REFERENCE

https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/gbv_sc_sops_2018_english_final.pdf