GBV in Humanitarian Action Advanced Training (2)

HUMCAP delivers high-level training with innovative teaching techniques to humanitarian actors, ensuring quality interventions in crisis situations.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At completion of the training participants are able to:

• Plan, design and implement context appropriate GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response interventions in humanitarian crisis.

• Support quality multi-sectoral response services to GBV that are accessible to all survivors based on needs.

• Discuss good practices, standards and approaches for transformative GBV programming, effective prevention and risk mitigation and to sucessfully integrate GBV and child protection.

• Identify and apply tools for GBV assessment, GBV information management, monitoring and evaluation of GBV programming.

CONTENTS ACQUIRED DURING THE COURSE

MODULE 1. GBV Basic Concepts and Key Tools

This module has reviewed the GBV guiding principles, approaches and minimum standards to work in humanitarian contexts, with an emphasis on the GBV key guidance and tools. Participants have learnt to apply the GBV guiding principles and the GBV frameworks for action, discussing how they are different in conflict and disaster affected situation and in development.

MODULE 2. Multi-sectoral response to GBV: an Overview

This module has reviewed the concept of holistic, multi-dimensional response to GBV and discussed how to ensure that GBV survivors receive appropriate quality multi-sectoral services, through coordinated actions among several sectors, including as a minimum health, psychosocial support, safety/security and justice. Participants have explored how to effectively engage other sectors in GBV response, establishing referral systems and utilizing key tools for coordination, such as the GBV service mapping, the GBV referral pathways and the GBV Standard Operation Procedures.

MODULE 3: Multi-sectoral response to GBV: focus on psychosocial support (PSS)

Psychosocial support is a key component of the multi-sectoral response to GBV. Survivors should be provided with survivor-centred psychosocial support focused on healing, empowerment and recovery (GBViE Minimum Standard n. 5). Through this module, participants have expanded on specific PSS interventions, such as psychological first aid, individual counseling, group PSS for women and girls and referral to specialized mental health services.

MODULE 4: Multi-sectoral Response to GBV: focus on Justice and Legal Aid

Within a GBV multi-sectoral response, legal and justice sectors must support GBV survivors to access safe and survivor-centred legal services that protect their rights and promote their access to justice (GBViE Minimum Standard n. 10). This module has discussed why access to justice is important to protect survivors of GBV, what the main barriers are to the provision of legal aid services and how to best approach informal justice mechanisms.

MODULE 5: Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods

This module has expanded on economic support for GBV survivors as part of the multi-sectoral response. Participants have learnt about effective ways to foster economic empowerment and livelihood for women and girls, understanding the do’s and don’ts for programme design and implementation and discussing safe, market-based opportunities for survivors of GBV.

MODULE 6: Multi-sectoral Response to GBV: Health Care for GBV survivors

GBV survivors must access quality, survivor-centred health care, including health services for sexual and intimate partner violence and other forms of GBV, and referrals to prevent and/or reduce the effects of violence (GBViE Minimum Standard n. 4). This module has described practical ways in which GBV actors promote access to healthcare services, providing a foundational knowledge on aspects such as the Minimum Initial Service Package and other specialized services.

MODULE 7: Integration between GBV and CP: focus on working with Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Integrating child protection and gender-based violence interventions is fundamental to respond to the specific needs of child survivors of sexual abuse. This module has deepened participants’ ability to work interdisciplinary and strengthen their understanding of specific techniques to assist child survivors of sexual abuse.

MODULE 8: GBV Prevention

It is well known that designing and conducting effective GBV prevention programming, that has an impact on transforming harmful gender and social norms and reduce the likelihood of GBV is very challenging. This module has looked at different approaches and activities that can be considered to be part of prevention strategies, to enable participants to plan, implement and monitor GBV prevention initiatives.

MODULE 9: GBV Risk Mitigation

This module has introduced participants to the specific role GBV specialists have to support and guide other sectors to mainstream GBV risk mitigation, in line with the IASC GBV Guidelines. Practical examples and tools to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the mitigation of GBV risk across targeted sectors have been discussed. Good practices to consult women and girls about GBV risk in their community will be as well presented.

MODULE 10: GBV Assessments

This module has presented the different types of assessments for GBV work, to allow participants to understand and practice existing methodologies for analysis, monitoring and data collections. The module has described how to adapt assessment tools to local contexts and what other considerations should be taken to ensure safety, inclusion and do no harm approaches.

MODULE 11: GBV information management

GBV data is very sensitive and should be managed according to ethical and safety considerations. This module has strengthen participants’ understanding of how to manage GBV information, with a special emphasis on how to safely and ethically collect, store, analysis and share GBV service data with full informed consent for the purpose of improving service delivery.

MODULE 12: Planning GBV interventions: Proposal Writing

Oftentimes GBV practitioners manage GBV projects and programmes and assume responsibility for all the cycle of the project/programme management. This module has helped participants to understand how to engage in planning process and how to prioritize GBV as a life-saving service. Participants have practiced how to draft a logical framework, how to draft gender-sensitive indicators and how to draft specific objectives for GBV programming.

MODULE 13: Planning GBV interventions: Partnership

This module has described effective strategies to establish, expanded and diversified the range of partners considered to implement GBV programming. A great focus has been dedicated to working with women-led organizations and women-rights organizations as well as other community-based and civil society organizations and to mechanisms to ensure accountability to women and girls.

MODULE 14: GBV Monitoring and Evaluation

Programme monitoring and evaluation refers to activities designed to understand how a programme is implemented and what is achieved. Through this module, participants have learnt how M&E can help them to conceptualize their programme goals and strategies and identify the right indicators that are able to track how a project/programme is contributing to achieving the expected results.