Gender Based Violence: Ireland Responding

In 2005, the Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence published a report, Gender Based Violence: a Failure to Orotect, A Challenge to Action. The report committed agencies to recognising gender based violence (GBV) as a human rights abuse and called on them to be accountable in preventing and responding to GBV. Agencies endorsed the six key recommendations in the report:

1. Institutionalise GBV responses at organisational level.
2. Support GBV programming: understand the context.
3. Make prevention and protection central to programming.
4. Improve service delivery: respond to GBV.
5. Engage with civil society.
6. Coordinate and collaborate with partners/other agencies.