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OCHA Policy Brief on Gendered Drivers, Risks and Impacts of Food Insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2023) CC

It is widely understood that the food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s fastest growing and most neglected crises. It lacks sufficient global focus, resources and urgency. As in so many crises, women and girls are disproportionately affected and shoulder t...he consequences of protracted neglect, with unconscionable impacts on their safety, life chances and agency. Gaining a holistic view of the gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is difficult. This is due to a lack of data and prioritization, and the large geographical and socioeconomic terrain covered by both regions. However, what we do know about this crisis is more than enough to urgently address the needs of women and girls. An OCHA discussion paper on this topic (which will be published imminently, and from which this policy brief is drawn) found that there is: A strong risk of profound regression in gender equality gains made to date in the countries of concern, including on education, sexual and reproductive health, and the economic independence of women and girls (with knock-on effects on broader humanitarian and development outcomes). An increasing challenge to reverse what must be recognized as a protracted and growing gender-based violence (GBV) emergency in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. The food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is protracted, multidimensional and highly gendered, with spiralling impacts on gender equality and food security outcomes. It is driven by interwoven and overlapping factors, including climate change, political instability, conflict, socioeconomic conditions, migration and displacement and, more recently, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Interlinked with these factors are gendered structural drivers of food insecurity, including deeply entrenched gender inequalities and harmful social norms. Gendered risks and impacts of food insecurity include alarming limitations on access to education, sexual and reproductive health rights, women’s agency and participation, and dramatic increases in different existing forms of GBV and the emergence of new ones. Recognition of such gendered dimensions of food insecurity and of the need for a multisectoral approach in the response is key to addressing the crisis, along-side sustained commitment and adequate allocation of resources. This policy brief draws out key findings from the OCHA discussion paper on this topic, which includes a desk review of studies, assessments and reports, and interviews with local women’s organizations on the front lines of the food insecurity crisis in communities across both regions. Below are the most pressing gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity (not in order of priority), as well as key gaps in the current humanitarian response to food insecurity, and recommendations to take forward. more

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Responding to Gender Based Violence: A Training Manual for Duty bearers

UNFPA; UKAid; CEDOVIP (2013) C1

Domestic Violence Act Training Module

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Data Collection on Violence against Women and COVID-19: Decision Tree

UN Women (2020) C1

This decision tree guides data collectors through the various considerations, viable options, and alternative data sources for obtaining information without jeopardizing participants’ safety or the data’s integrity. In doing so, it aims to identify data sources and methodologies that are useful ... more

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Ending Violence Against Children: Six Strategies for Action

UNICEF (2014)

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Minimum Standardsfor Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies

UNFPA (2015) C2

Gender-based violence is a life-threatening, global health and human rights issue that violates international human rights law and principles of gender equality. It is also a threat to lasting peace and an affront to our common humanity. United Nations Member States have called for urgent action to ... more

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Handbook for Coordinating Gender-based Violence Interventions in Emergencies 2019
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Protection Cluster (2019) C2

This handbook is a quick-reference tool that provides practical, field-level guidance to establish and maintain a GBV sub-cluster in a humanitarian emergency. It provides the foundations for coordination. More in-depth information can be pursued through resources referenced in this handbook. The GBV... more

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Lessons from Northern Uganda in addressing gender based violence

Sharlene Yang Action Contre la Faim France (2017) C1

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Clinical Management Rape Survivors Developing Protocols

World Health Organization; UNHCR (2004) C_WHO

Developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons

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Clinical Management of Rape Survivors: Developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons (Arabic edition)

UNHCR; WHO; UNFPA (2004) C_WHO

Toolkit on Mapping Legal, Health, and Social Services Responses to Child Maltreatment

World Health Organization; Lucerne University; Children Research Centre (2015)

The toolkit aims to provide researchers with guidance for improving the quality of studies that use administrative data to better ascertain child maltreatment incidence, response and service delivery. However, these are complex studies to conduct, and the toolkit is not meant to be comprehensive. Re... more

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A training guide for building the capacities of duty bearers to prevent gender based violence

S. Nakku Kibuuka UWONET (Uganda women network) (2011) C1

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Gestion clinique des Victimes de Viol

Organisation mondiale de la SantéHautCommissariat aux Réfugiés des Nations Unies (2005) C1

Développement de protocoles à adopter avec les réfugiés et les personnes déplacées dans leur propre pays. Edition révisée

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World Drug Report 2022 Booklet 2 Global Overview of Drug Demand and Supply

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC (2022) C1

Constituting the second part of the World Drug Report 2022, the present booklet contains an overview of the global demand for and supply of drugs. The first chapter of the booklet begins with the latest estimates of the number of people who use drugs, the distribution of those users by type of drug... more

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Status Report on prison health in Europe

World Health Organization (Europe) (2019) C_WHO

Overwhelming evidence shows that a range of health concerns—mental illness, substance dependence, HIV/AIDS, and noncommunicable diseases—affect prisoners disproportionately. But, while incarceration poses risks to health—including inadequate nutrition and exposure to violence—prisons also pr... more

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The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

Oxfam (2021) CC

24 Nov. 2021 Action against gender-based violence being pushed to the outlying margins of the global COVID-19 response A new Oxfam report shows an undeniable increase in gender-based violence (GBV) during the COVID-19 pandemic around the world to which too many governments and donors are not doi... more

Between perpetration and prevention of violent extremism accounting on gender

United Nations Development Programme Iraq (UNDP) (2022) C_UNICEF

This study emphasizes the contribution that women can play in the prevention of violent extremism within the family and society and analyzes the drivers and roles of women taking part in violent extremism and supporting violent and extremist groups. UNDP Iraq is pleased to make this study and its r... more