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This document is a poster used to communicate the S2S services within communities.

This document is a poster used to communicate the S2S services within communities.

This document is a poster used to communicate the S2S services within communities. 

This document is a learning product produced by the programme.

This is the Social Development Direct (SDDirect) event brochure for the SVRI Forum 2024. This interactive document, featuring clickable buttons, showcases SDDirect’s global programmes and highlights the key sessions and events where our colleagues and partners will be actively participating. At the Forum, we focus on our work in gender-based violence and safeguarding, addressing critical issues such as feminist approaches to humanitarian action and violence against LGBTQI+ populations.

This tip sheet highlights the importance of inclusion of older women in GBV in emergencies (GBViE) programming. It reviews key terms and concepts related to addressing the needs of older women; examines global data on aging women, and on GBV affecting older women; presents relevant frameworks and tools for improving response and prevention programming; and summarizes tools and resources for further advocacy and action.

This paper considers the question of whether feminist theories and principles hold the potential to help the humanitarian system better meet many of its highest priorities. Research across the world provides widespread evidence that feminism can benefit not just women and girls, but entire communities and societies.  Already across the UN system, there are strong normative frameworks and rhetorical commitments to women’s rights and empowerment.  Feminist principles are deeply embedded in UN conventions and guidance that are key to humanitarian response. 

Beyond specific efforts to address GBV, this paper considers the question of whether feminist theories and principles hold the potential to help the humanitarian system better meet many other of its highest priorities. The paper begins with a basic primer on feminist theory—what it means, where it comes from, why it is useful, and what its core principles are.

This report examines how flooding, induced by climate change, disproportionately affects women and girls and increases their risk of experiencing GBV. The report has a particular focus on the Eastern and Southern Africa region. It identifies effective emergency preparedness and response strategies, particularly in the Eastern and Southern African region.  It provides information that is useful to humanitarians, as well as development actors, working in flood-prone contexts.