GBV Responders' Network

Response

A displaced girl in Atmeh camp, Syria.

Violence against women and girls takes many forms and is amplified in times of conflict and crisis. From domestic violence and sexual assault to isolation and economic exclusion that leads to survival sex, the threats to women and girls in emergencies demand proactive efforts to reduce violence. Survivors of violence deserve high quality services and support. This is the bedrock of the IRC approach. The opportunity to access immediate life-saving medical care, psychosocial resources, and case management services is absolutely critical to the recovery and healing process.


Content

  • Clinical Care for Sexual Assault Survivors

    Sexual assault is a threat to public health in refugee and conflict-affected settings. It places survivors at risk for unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, psychological trauma, and social stigma. Training health care providers in compassionate and competent care for sexual assault survivors is a cornerstone of the IRC’s approach. We know that […]

  • Core Concepts

    Violence against women and girls is the most extreme manifestation of gender inequality. It is present in the home, in the community, and in political and policy making forums that govern the lives of women and girls. In humanitarian contexts, there is even more of a need for services and transformation whereby women and girls […]

  • Mobile and Remote GBV Service Delivery

    Guidelines for Mobile and Remote GBV Service Delivery Mobile and remote GBV service delivery responds to the changing nature of displacement. Increasingly, displaced persons are living in host communities, urban settings or informal settlements with more than half of the world’s displaced people living in urban areas. The humanitarian community has been challenged to develop […]

  • Caring for Child Survivors

    Meeting the care and treatment needs of child survivors of sexual abuse in humanitarian settings requires technical expertise and coordination across all relevant sectors. Child survivors have a profound need for care and treatment that is appropriate to their age, cultural context, psychological symptoms, and specific type of abuse. The IRC, in partnership with UNICEF, […]

  • Data Collection in Service Delivery

    Establishing a safe and ethical mechanism for primary service providers to share and access compiled GBV data is an essential cornerstone of good GBV response coordination. In the past, the humanitarian community has not had a system that allowed for the effective and safe collection, storage, analysis and sharing of GBV-related data, and humanitarian aid […]

  • Disability Inclusion

    The GBV and Disability Toolkit was developed by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and International Rescue Committee as part of a project piloted in Burundi, Ethiopia, Jordan and the Northern Caucasus in the Russian Federation. The project aimed to identify barriers to access, and to pilot and evaluate strategies for promoting disability inclusion in gender-based […]

  • GBV Case Management

    Because GBV results in harmful physical, emotional and social consequences that often require information and care from multiple service providers, case management has become an integral part of the response to GBV in humanitarian settings. GBV case management is a structured method for providing help to a survivor whereby the survivor is informed of all […]