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COVID-19 in Gaza: Community perspectives on the pandemic

March 23, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The University of Bath and IOD PARC captured the responses of Palestinians living in refugee communities to a range of COVID-19 public health measures. They found that participants had a good understanding of the virus and how it was transmitted but perceived the preventative health measures taken to be worse than the virus itself. This […]

Linking the women, peace and security agenda to climate change

January 18, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Elizabeth Smith discusses key findings from the Insights on Peace and Security paper ‘Climate Change in Women, Peace and Security Agenda National Action Plans’, which examines how the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda national action plans (NAPs) frame climate change, and how they could promote women’s participation in addressing related risks… Smith, E. S. (2020, […]

National action plans on women, peace and security: Critical tools in COVID-19 responses in the Arab States region

January 18, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

This analysis of the existing national action plans on women, peace and security of Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen was undertaken to assess and demonstrate the direct relevance of the plans to each country’s COVID-19 response. While national action plans on women, peace and security are relevant in every crisis, the analysis highlights […]

Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls

December 16, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

The Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation on women and girls in emergencies is the first humanitarian system-wide evaluation on women and girls, exploring 10 country case studies, with in-depth analysis in four: Bangladesh, Colombia, Iraq and Nigeria. It has found that there has been notable progress, and that technical gender expertise is a critical success factor in […]

COVID-19 and women, peace and security database

October 29, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

At the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP), we believe that despite the unprecedented challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has created, it is an opportunity to build more just, peaceful and equitable societies. To achieve this, it is necessary to adopt gender- and conflict-sensitive COVID-19 responses and recovery measures, which are based on reliable data and […]

Intersectionality as a lens to the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for sexual and reproductive health in development and humanitarian contexts

July 25, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Millions of people have now been infected with COVID-19, with numbers increasing daily. As countries have implemented social distancing, quarantine and other community containment measures to limit the spread of the virus, data show higher infection rates and deaths among particular minorities. In the United States, African Americans have been disproportionately affected by the virus, […]

Unheard unseen: a COVID-19 briefing

July 25, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Ensuring the inclusion of marginalised women in fragile and conflict-affected states in COVID-19 prevention, response and recovery: The cracks in our systems have been brutally exposed. COVID-19 is amplifying inequalities and power disparities. Poverty, insecurity and gender-based violence are spiralling – and those who are already unheard and unseen will be hit the hardest. 2020 […]

How “de-biasing” humanitarian organizations could lead to more gender-equitable programming during COVID-19 and beyond

July 18, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

While there has been progress towards achieving gender equality globally, a recent study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which included data from 75 countries, reported that 91% of men and 84% of women hold gender biases against women [1]. Using the Gender Norms Index (GNI) [2] to assess social beliefs and attitudes towards […]

Prioritizing vulnerable populations and women on the frontlines: COVID-19 in humanitarian contexts

July 18, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

The COVID-19 outbreak has been declared a global pandemic and cases are being reported among displaced populations that are particularly vulnerable to infection. Humanitarian workers on the frontlines of the response are working in some of the most challenging contexts and also face elevated risk of contracting COVID-19 and potential stigmatization or violence in the […]