This toolkit is a practical guide for mainstreaming gender in the work of community organisations.
The Gender Audit Handbook: A tool for organisational self-assessment and transformation (2010)
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…
Framework on integration of priority cross-cutting themes: Violence prevention, gender equality and beneficiary accountability
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…
Women, Gender and Disaster: Abilities and Disabilities
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…
Gender Manual: A Practical Guide for Development Policy Makers and Practitioners
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…
Minimum standard commitments to gender and diversity in emergency programming by sector
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…
Gender Policy
This policy aims to define the main approach of the IFRC towards addressing gender issues in Red Cross and Red Crescent actions.
Presentation: Linking Framework with Strategy 2020 and Community Resilience
This powerpoint presentation highlights the importance of gender and diversity in Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, as reflected in the Strategy 2020
Explanatory note to the IFRC Strategic Framework on Gender and Diversity Issues
Purpose This document looks at why gender and diversity is important to the IFRC framework and to the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Strategy 2020. Overview Gender and diversity are important to the…
IFRC Strategic Framework on Gender and Diversity Issues 2013-2020
The document provides specific, strategic direction to the IFRC to ensure that its actions are non-discriminatory towards people of all ages, and to promote gender equality and respect for diversity throughout all of its work.