Purpose This video is one of five documentaries created to illustrate best practice in building community and Red Cross and Red Crescent capacity in a variety of cultural contexts in Mongolia, Australia, Nepal and Cambodia. Overview The capacity-building process involves…
Purpose This study’s overall objective is to provide information on the collection and use of sex and age disaggregated data (SADD), and gender and generational analyses of SADD. It is intended to inform assessment processes by humanitarian actors responding to…
This guide provides standards and directions on how to carry out rapid needs assessment for Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Violence Prevention (VP) initiatives including child protection and sexual and gender-based violence.
In particular, this rapid assessment tool is designed to help gather data in an efficient and effective way to help inform integration of PSS and VP issues, as minimum standards, into the broader disaster management action plans in response to an emergency.
This advocacy report encourages making the prevention of interpersonal and self-directed violence a priority within the International Federation’s response to disasters. It highlights why and how interpersonal and self-directed violence during and after disasters is a predictable and preventable problem and the actions the International Federation and its partner agencies should take to have a more engaged role in addressing them.
Purpose This briefing paper looks at the importance of gender within Red Cross programmes and services and offers some suggestions about how Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies might better integrate gender into shelter programmes. Overview Studies have shown that…
Purpose This guidance note provides an overview of gender and diversity issues and practicalities to be considered when designing water, sanitation and hygiene promotion programmes. The note contains case studies from Mozambique, Pakistan and Somalia. Overview Women, girls, boys, men,…
Purpose This video illustrates the importance of men/boys assisting in water and sanitation activities. Overview The involvement of men/boys in these activities creates a good relationship between the men, their children and the women. It also creates some free time…
Purpose The purpose of this resource is to provide a comprehensive resource on menstrual hygiene that supports the development of context-specific information for improving practices for women and girls in lower- and middle-income countries. It includes a number of case…
“What a mother truly wants?” is an advocacy video describing the right and ability of women living with HIV to have HIV-uninfected babies. This video looks at the likelihood of a mother passing on HIV to her unborn child.
“What does every human being want?” is an advocacy video describing the experience of children growing up with HIV. This video asks the question: What does every human being want? It shows that people living with HIV want acceptance and understanding just like any other human being.