GBV RESPONDERS NETWORK
Resources for addressing gender-based violence against women and girls in humanitarian settings.
GBV RESPONDERS NETWORK
In this report, the International Rescue Committee highlights various challenges that women’s rights organizations (WROs) face in accessing funding and participating in humanitarian decision-making, reflecting missed opportunities for accelerating localization during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report also tracks funding to GBV interventions across three contexts, evidencing the ways in which GBV interventions remain underfunded, and shining a light on the need to prioritize GBV interventions and meaningfully engage WROs in these efforts. Importantly, the findings compel humanitarian actors to ask the question, “Why not local?” The IRC calls for system reform to achieve a more equitable distribution of power, including with feminist organizations and WROs, who are frontline responders providing lifesaving services to crisis-affected women and girls in their contexts. Finally, the report makes specific recommendations calling on humanitarian actors to fulfil their commitments to increasing the prioritization of GBV interventions in humanitarian crises and the meaningful engagement of women’s rights organizations.