1. Organized by UNICEF with support from USAID
UPDATE ON REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTIONS IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION TRIBE HOTEL – GIGIRI, NAIROBI, KENYA 16TH TO 20TH APRIL 2018
Organized by UNICEF with support from USAID
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2. Introduction
Nutrition, gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV) are often interrelated. Evidence shows that higher levels of both acute and chronic malnutrition for women and girls is directly related to gender-inequitable access to nutrition services, quality health care and WASH services. Gender-inequitable access to food and services is a form of GBV that can, in turn, contribute to other forms of GBV.
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3. Women, girls, and other at-risk group face a heightened risk of GBV in humanitarian crisis settings. The links between nutrition, gender inequality and the risks of GBV may also become particularly pronounced in these settings, where food and other basic needs are in short supply.
Nutrition surveillance or information systems (the terms are used interchangeably here) collect, analyse, interpret and report on information about the nutritional status of populations and most importantly are used to inform appropriate response strategies.
Furthermore nutrition surveillance can, and should, incorporate many sources of information (anthropometric, food security, nutritional, health) in order to maximize its usefulness and integration.
The biggest challenge of all for nutrition surveillance systems is to ensure the link with information and action. Collecting, analysing and reporting on nutrition information without the appropriate response is meaningless and wastes resources.
Nutrition surveillance is a component of early warning systems (EWS)
Anthropometric (nutritional status) data are generally seen as a component of an EWS.
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4. OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP
To advocate for the mainstreaming of Gender Based Violence (GBV) Risk Prevention and Mitigation in all humanitarian response across all sectors and throughout the project life cycle.
To build the capacity of the sector’s focal person to support sector partners in mainstreaming GBV in their various responses.
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5. The Participants The participants were drawn from four countries:
Nigeria: 9 Participants (2 from Nutrition sector, 3 from WASH, 2 each from FSL and CCCM)
South Sudan: Participants
Ethiopia: Participants
Somalia: Participants
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The 5-day workshop was facilitated by six International facilitators on GBV drawn from UNICEF, UNFPA and UN Women
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6. FORTEEN (14) KEY MESSAGES & FEEDBACK FOR THE NUTRITION SECTOR & PARTNERS
What are the surveillance data collection methods you are familiar with?
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7. 1. That all partners mainstream “Gender Based Violence” mitigation strategies into our existing Nutrition response. 2. That GBV specialists/focal persons should be involved in all our future assessment studies and proposal development in order to support this risk mitigation 3. That GBV Risks Prevention & Mitigation Strategies be embedded into our CMAM national guideline 4. That GBV case workers are employed as part of NUTRITION Team, and that this is spelt out in all future proposals and budgets to the donors 5. That we (as a sector) ensure and promote gender balancing in our nutrition teams with efforts towards equitable gender distribution among our staff and the retention of female staff.
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8. 6. That GBV risks exist in any setting, even moreso in the humanitarian crisis setting 7. That our Nutrition response should mitigate GBV risks throughout the project life cycle: from questionnaire design, to needs assessments, resource mobilization, planning, implementation, monitoring and review. 8. That all partners plan and conduct in-house GBV training for NUTRITION team, partners and government workers within three months in consultation with the Nutrition – GBV – Focal – Person and report it to the sector 9. That we promote inter-sectoral assessment studies with inclusion of GBV focal persons/specialists 10. That Safety Audits of all our Nutrition sites be conducted with involvement of GBV focal person/specialists and other sector like WASH, Health, Protection, Food security, CCCM, etc
Such as Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS).
Not timely
Quality of anthropometric measurements – too much indicators included
Cost of DHS/MICS - >5 M dollar
Coverage – focus in large areas such as state in Nigerian context that doesn’t give you details
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9. 11. That partners incorporate GBV Messages into the nutrition related community outreach and awareness raising activities,
12. That partners involve women, children and others group at risks in our nutrition planning, response and monitoring,
13. That the Nutrition sector develop mechanisms or templates for capturing “number of nutrition team and government workers trained” on mainstreaming GBV Risk prevention and mitigation in nutrition response quarterly and annually and also reflect it in our HNO and HRP.
14. That all Nutrition teams understand the referral pathway, their roles in providing referrals to GBV services, and how to safely and appropriately refer a survivor to services if s/he requests access to services.
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10. LEARNING AND TRAINING RESOURCES
We brought some hard copies of “Thematic Area Guide” (TAG) for integrating GBV risks prevention and mitigation into Nutrition response for Partners,
Copies of “how to support survivors of gender-based violence when a GBV actor is not available in your implementation site” (the GBV pocket guide)
Softcopy manuals, GBV Pocket Guide App (Android and iOS)
Website and links for further reading.
Not representative, particularly during emergencies.
Captures younger children - While the information can provide a snapshot of the level of underweight children in a given community, there tends to be a bias towards younger children (below one year of age) who visit the MCH clinic for immunization purposes. When older children visit, they are generally sick, which can also compromise the data.
A further potential bias is toward populations who can actually access the health centre
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11. ACKNOWLEGEMENT
We thank the nutrition sector management and partners for giving us the rare opportunity to represent them in the REGIONAL WORKSHOP.
We also extend our gratitude to the organizers (UNICEF) of the workshop and International facilitators for their sacrifice and commitment to promoting a humanitarian system which is more equitable across all the sectors.
Similarly, we appreciate our organizations (Plan International & INTERSOS) for creating the enabling environment for our candidature.
We Remain Grateful To You All.
Signed
Kamal (Plan) and Ikenna (INTERSOS).
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