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Sub-Working Group on Gender and Humanitarian Action
In December 2006, the IASC Principals converted the IASC Gender Task Force into a Sub-Working Group and agreed to support the strategy for integration of gender as a crosscutting issue into the Cluster Approach and into other elements of the humanitarian reform.
The Gender SWG meets every four to six weeks. Its work is structured around an annual work plan.
List of members: CARE, FAO, INEE, ICRC, IFRC, IMC, IOM, IRC, NRC, OCHA, OHCHR, Office RSG/IDPs, OSAGI, OXFAM, UNDAW, UNDESA, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNMAS, WFP, WHO, and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. Attempts will be made to broaden partnerships and expand membership.
» The IASC SWG has the following objectives for its work in 2009:
- Continuation of roll out of key SWG Documents: Gender Handbook and GBV Guidelines in a coordinated manner and in several languages.
- Build capacity of humanitarian actors on gender issues including GBV.
- Support collection and use of sex and age disaggregated data (SADD) for decision-making
- Build partnerships with NGOs for increased and more consistent gender equality programming in crises.
- Strengthen accountability systems on gender and GBV in humanitarian action
- Strengthen mechanisms for integrating gender and GBV into the work of relevant clusters and other coordination mechanisms including at the regional level
The SWG is co-chaired by UNFPA
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