Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action

The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist humanitarian actors and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence (GBV) across all sectors of humanitarian response.

Part One introduces these Guidelines, presents an overview of GBV, provides an explanation for why GBV is a protection concern for all humanitarian actors and outlines recommendations for ensuring implementation of the Guidelines.

Part Two provides a background to the ‘thematic areas’ in Part Three and summarizes the structure of each thematic area. It also introduces the guiding principles and approaches that are the foundation for all planning and implementation of GBV-related programming.

Part Three constitutes the bulk of these Guidelines. It provides specific guidance, organized into thirteen thematic area sections. Each section focuses on a different sector of humanitarian response.2