This document aims to address the increasing demand for clear guidance on how to practically and ethically monitor and mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) within non-emergency, international development programming, in which GBV is not a specific programmatic component. Specifically, it draws on existing GBV-related guidance, as well as input from a group of experts, to provide recommendations for preventing and/or responding to unintentional risk, threat, or violence against individuals related to programmatic interventions. These recommendations describe ways to take stock of the programmatic environment with regard to GBV in general, as well as targeted suggestions on how to track GBV-related incidents and issues throughout the program cycle.
Household Dialogues for Financial Empowerment of Women (HH Dialogue manual) is a training course and manual designed for implementing the “Digital Sub Wallet for Increased Financial Empowerment of Women” Project. The Project’s main goal is: For women to have equitable influence over household financial decisions and to use mobile financial technology to improve their own and their family’s opportunities and lives. The interventions include dialogues that provide a platform for women to engage in household decision-making. Read More
In 2021, CARE Ecuador with the support of the Civil Society Alliance against Child Malnutrition hosted a dialogue based on the urgent need to combat child malnutrition. Conversations also focused on the expressed work of CARE Ecuador and the provincial governments of Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, and Bolivar, and how these networks can improve the production and living conditions of rural women in these provinces. This policy brief offers an overview of the topics covered and desired policy outcomes from dialogue participants. Read More
Gender relations in South Sudan are shaped by the social and economic realities of being one of the world's poorest countries and by decades of conflict. Traditional gender norms which guide everyday life for most South Sudanese put responsibility of household chores, as well as collecting firewood, fetching water, care work for children, elderly and the sick on women, while girls help them. Read More