Laura Martineau-Searle, GBV AoR Helpdesk Manager, introduces a Helpdesk Guidance Note authored by Jeanne Ward on preventing and responding to GBV in natural disaster settings, with lessons learned from Asia and Pacific.
While preventing, mitigating and responding to sexual violence in conflict is of great importance, this narrow focus has the effect of shifting attention away from the many other forms of GBV experienced by women and girls in emergencies, which include intimate partner violence.
