The goal of the project was to identify how the humanitarian community was integrating existing gender guidance across all sectors and whether gender was being dealt with centrally as an institutionalized way of working rather than peripherally. It looked at the ways in which humanitarian agencies, including UN agencies and international and local organizations, assessed these needs and planned their programs. It also asked questions about the opportunities and good practices and models for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The report finds that UN agencies and international organizations are working at full capacity and trying harder to integrate gender into planning and programming, but women and girls still face huge anxieties in the camps and urban and rural areas, particularly around personal safety, sexual violence and harassment, hygiene, housing and direct access to food and services.
