GENDER AND PROTECTION
SESSION ON CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES SESSION
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Understand that addressing crosscutting issues such as gender and
protection systematically will make
results more effective and efficient.
2. Share experience from the field, in
addressing gender and protection
issues in Humanitarian contexts.
3. What gender and protection
analysis might look like in a food
security context
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CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES SESSION
RELEVANCE
Why is this subject covered?
As cluster staff we need to understand what cross-cutting issues are
(gender; protection; HIV and AIDS; psychosocial health; age;
environment; etc.) and how they relate to our work. The emphasis is
being placed on the importance to mainstream gender and protection
in food security interventions.
How does this relate to my day to day tasks?
Food security assessment, analysis and options, programme design,
and monitoring, evaluation and reporting need to take into account
gender and related protection aspects
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KEY CONCEPTS
• Humanitarian interventions that contribute to women, girls, men
and boys’:
 Safety
 Dignity
 Integrity
• Humanitarian principles (some)
 Neutrality
 Impartiality
 Independence
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KEY ACTIONS
• Analyse differences related to sex, age, ethnicity, religion
etc
• Address gender based violence
• Remember differences in needs of host communities,
IDPs, refugees, minority groups, etc
• Analyse land and other assets ownership patterns, HIV
and AIDS, socio-cultural contexts, conflict situations
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KEY ACTIONS
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Design services that meet the needs of all
Ensure access for all
Ensure equal Participation
Collect, analyse, use and report programming monitoring
data
• Target actions based on the analysis
• Collectively coordinate actions
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CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES SESSION
GROUP EXERCISE
• Objectives:
 Identify how to address specific gender and protection
issues when assessing food security.
 Identify how each risk affects individuals /groups
/communities, in terms of food security.
• Organisation:
 4 groups (context analysis, food availability, access and
utilization)
 1 rapporteur /group
 30 minute for group work
 5 minutes feedback / group (bullet points on paper)
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CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES SESSION
PROTECTION AND GENDER
• Gender and protection analysis highlights who is
affected, why, and how the “who” is affected
differently
• Gender: Emergencies have different impacts on
women, girls, boys and men and often change
households’ dynamics
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CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES SESSION
PROTECTION AND GENDER
• Protection: Host communities, IDPs, refugees,
minority groups, etc. have different needs,
capabilities and constraints
• Protection: Land and assets ownership patterns,
HIV and AIDS, socio-cultural contexts, conflict
situations require specific responses
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CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES SESSION
PROTECTION AND GENDER
• Your role as CCs and IMO is to build strong networks
that allow us to systematically assess, implement,
monitor, evaluate and report on activities also from a
gender and protection perspective
• You are not alone
• As humanitarian actors we need to take a more holistic
and mainstreaming approach to gender and protection
issues so that we weave equality of access, results,
accountability and impact into all of our interventions
systematically.
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THANK YOU