Purpose This capacity-building tool is designed to enable National Societies become better placed to mainstream gender into policy and programming responses. The tool contains an assessment checklist and accompanying action plans. Overview The assessment checklist is a quick and effective…
This assessment tool aims to: facilitate reflection; identify programme strengths and opportunities for improvement; and identify priorities for capacity-building in programmes designed to address violence against women.
The tool includes assessment items related to three “core” programmatic strategies (community mobilization; health and social support services; and legal aid) and four “cross-cutting” strategies (advocacy; media and communications; capacity-building; and partnerships) for addressing violence against women.
This toolkit is a practical guide for mainstreaming gender in the work of community organisations.
Purpose The Gender Audit is a self-assessment tool for identifying staff perceptions regarding how gender issues are addressed in programming and in internal organisational systems and activities. It is also a process for creating continuing gender-action planning, and to identify…
Purpose This document brings together three cross-cutting themes (violence prevention, beneficiary accountability and gender equality) that have emerged as consistent priorities within international operations into one cohesive approach that will assist programme teams to meet minimum standards, while also determining…
Purpose This note looks at the challenges women with disabilities face in disasters and highlights the importance of knowing these challenges. Overview More women than men live with physical and/or mental conditions which, in a disability-hostile environment, limit their everyday…
Purpose This gender manual is designed to help project workers, who are not gender specialists, recognise and address gender issues in their work. The intention is to demystify gender, make the concept and practice of gender mainstreaming accessible to a…
Purpose This checklist provides a quick tool for assessing compliance with the Minimum Standard Commitments in Emergency Programming for Red Cross / Red Crescent staff and volunteers in: emergency health; food security; water, sanitation and hygiene; emergency shelter; livelihoods; non-food…
Purpose This policy document addresses the strong recommitment of the IFRC to scaling up prevention and destigmatization of HIV/AIDS, and its advocacy and provision of health care and other services related to HIV/AIDS, particularly to vulnerable populations. IFRC HIV AIDS…
This policy aims to define the main approach of the IFRC towards addressing gender issues in Red Cross and Red Crescent actions.