Women’s and girls’ rights and agency in humanitarian action

WIDE supports the advocacy-initiative of several organizations to strengthen a more systematic approach for ensuring that humanitarian action responds to women’s and girls’ rights and needs. Drawing on emerging initiatives, best-practice, research and the perspectives of affected communities themselves, the following recommendations provide a blueprint for governments, donors, United Nations agencies, civil society organizations, and national and local actors to work in tandem to drive system-level changes and put women’s and girls’ rights and agency at the centre of every humanitarian response.

The recommendations talk to:

• Women’s and girls‘ voices and leadership
• Equitable access to sexual and reproductive health services
• Prevention and response to gender-based violence
• Prevention sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse and
• Supporting women’s economic empowerment

Read more: Women and girls rights_in_humanitarian_action_AdvocacyBrief_2019