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Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Risk Mitigation

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‘Gender-based violence (GBV) is an umbrella term for any harmful act that is perpetrated against a person’s will and that is based on socially ascribed (i.e. gender) differences between males and females. It includes acts that inflict physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion, and other deprivations of liberty. These acts can occur in public or in private.’

IASC Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Action, 2015

 

GBV can affect people of all genders, however women and girls are disproportionally affected by GBV. Gender inequality, unequal power relations and systemic discrimination are the root causes of GBV and must be addressed in a multi-sectoral and intersectoral way.

 

What is GBV risk mitigation?

GBV risk mitigation (RM) focuses on reducing the risk of exposure to GBV. Shelter actors need to ensure that sector work does not cause or increase the risk of exposure to GBV but rather identify risks and contribute to reducing these, improving safety particularly of more at-risk populations. All shelter actors should also know how to safely handle disclosures of GBV incidents and to make referrals. It is important to note that shelter actors should NOT be proactively identifying or seeking out GBV survivors, but if a survivor does disclose a GBV incident, shelter actors should know how to safely handle this including basic psychological first aid.

 

Prevention, Mitigation and Response

There are three ways in which GBV is addressed:

Prevention: taking action to prevent GBV from happening in the first place

Mitigation: reducing the risk of exposure to GBV

Response: activities undertaken by specialised service providers related to survivor care and assistance

 

Responsibility to mitigate GBV risks

All humanitarian actors have a responsibility to mitigate GBV risks in their work, regardless of the sector, in line with the Centrality of Protection and Do No Harm, amongst other international principles, guidance, laws, standards, and policies. The key guidance outlined below supports shelter actors to integrate GBV risk mitigation into their work.

 

Also see and subscribe to the Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Community of Practice

 

Key Guidance

 

IASC Guidelines for Integrating GBV Intervention in Humanitarian Action: Shelter, Settlement and Recovery Thematic Area Guide

Practical guidance for shelter, settlement and recovery actors and affected communities to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate actions designed to prevent and mitigate gender-based violence. Also available in Arabic, French, and Spanish.
 

 

Good Shelter Programming: Tools to Reduce the Risk of GBV in Shelter Programmes

The tools in this toolkit aim to help shelter practitioners to mainstream GBV risk mitigation into their shelter programming.
 

 

Distribution. Shelter Materials, NFI and Cash: Guidance to Reduce the Risk of GBV (First Edition)

Guidance for shelter and non-food items (NFI) practitioners on essential actions to be undertaken to reduce risks of gender-based violence (GBV) associated with the distribution of shelter and NFIs, including both in-kind and cash-based assistance.
 

 

Site Planning: Guidance to Reduce the Risk of GBV (Third Edition)

Practical guidance for measures which can be taken to reduce risks to affected populations around camps and sites.
 

 

GBV Constant Companion, Shelter Cluster

A portable tool that provides (shelter) practitioners with practical step-by-step advice on how to react if they are faced with a disclosure of GBV (available in Arabic, English, French, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Ukrainian)
 

 

HRP Tip Sheet for GBV Risk Mitigation Mainstreaming in Shelter

Tips for Shelter Cluster coordination teams to integrate GBV risk mitigation in Shelter HRP chapters.
 

Supporting Videos
Responding to a disclosure of a GBV incident: Arabic, English, French, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian Site Planning in Emergencies: English
 
 
Distribution of Non-Food Items (NFI) for Shelter: English, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian  
 

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