UNICEF’s efforts to respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in situations of armed conflict and disasters are central to the agency’s mandate for the protection, health and well-being of children and women. Within its humanitarian programming, UNICEF facilitates access to safe and ethical multisectoral care for GBV survivors and supports gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) prevention and risk mitigation efforts. As part of the support to Regional and Country Offices to deliver GBViE programmes, UNICEF Headquarters is developing a range of resources to design, implement and measure quality GBViE programming.
The purpose of the evaluation was ‘to strengthen UNICEF’s current and future GBViE programming based on real-time learning’. This entailed four objectives: 1. Assess GBViE programming in UNICEF country programmes using standard criteria for evaluating humanitarian action, to generate learning that informs future UNICEF GBViE programming. 2. Contribute evidence- and practice-based learning to the development of the UNICEF GBViE Resource Pack. 3. Develop a real-time GBViE programming evaluation methodology that can be used by UNICEF and other GBViE actors. 4. Develop recommendations to help UNICEF operationalise its organizational commitments to GBViE at headquarters, regional and country levels.
