Women, girls, men and boys are affected differently by humanitarian crisis and respond in different ways. While men and boys have a higher likelihood of becoming direct victims of armed conflict, women and girls are more likely to die in natural disasters. Women and men’s access to humanitarian aid and their ability to participate in the humanitarian response also differs: women might traditionally be excluded from participation and their mobility be restricted by cultural norms, an unsafe environment, daily chores, care-taking roles or lacking sanitary pads during menstruation.
SDC promotes gender-responsive humanitarian aid as a priority and takes into the account the different needs, capacities and priorities of women, men, girls and boys in all its humanitarian response and interventions. The following topics are at the centre:
SDC Report on Gender and Humanitarian Aid (2008)
SDC Toolkit - Gender, Conflict Transformation and the Psychosocial Approach (2006)
The present working tool is meant to facilitate the integration of psychosocial methods into the existing programme of international cooperation. The toolkit explains the relevance of psychosocial thinking in activities unfolding in a context with structural and armed violence, while demonstrating what this implies in everyday work. Although the focus of this toolkit is on regions of conflict, most of the individual sheets contained within are useful for the work in other contexts as well.
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