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The
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) is a unique inter-agency forum for
coordination, policy development and decision-making involving the key UN and
non-UN humanitarian partners.
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OneResponse
is a collaborative inter-agency website designed to enhance humanitarian
coordination within the cluster approach, and support the predictable exchange
of information in emergencies at the country level.
2012 GENDER MARKER REPORT - ANALYSIS
OF RESULTS & LESSONS LEARNED
Direct Link to Full 67-Page Report:
“To ensure women and girls, boys and men have equal access to and benefit from humanitarian assistance – we must “follow the money”. We need to know how we spend money and who benefits. This is why we are instituting a system of tracking funding – called a gender marker. Only in this way can we be sure we target all the population equally and make sure they receive the resources needed to help them to build back better after emergencies.”
Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian
Affairs & Emergency Relief Coordinator
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Women, girls,
boys and men are affected very differently by crises, and need to be assisted
in different ways. But for too long, aid agencies have acted as if everyone is
the same –
providing
one
size fits all interventions,
without a clear sense of how their programmes benefit people differently. The
evidence is clear. For humanitarian action to be effective, the different needs
of women, girls, boys and men must be understood and met.
That is why the
IASC, in 2009, introduced the Gender Marker. A tool aimed at putting gender at
the heart of the humanitarian response. This year, for the first time, the IASC
Gender Marker has been applied to all Consolidated Appeals Processes. This is
an essential step towards ensuring our work meets the needs of everyone
affected by crises.
The results so
far have been encouraging. Since 2009, the number of gender-blind projects
submitted to CAPs have dropped from 45 to 11 per cent. And more than 50 per
cent of CAP submissions today now effectively address gender equality concerns.
This is progress – although there is a long way still to go.