Tackles the consequences of gender inequality and violence against women and girls (VAWG) in humanitarian contexts.

The Humanitarian Working Group ensures INGOs and the UK Government prioritise women’s and girls’ needs in humanitarian settings through specific policy, funding and programming that enables their empowerment and recognises their role and value within their communities.

The Humanitarian Working Group:

  • Shares knowledge and best practices on women and girls’ protection needs.

  • Supports collective advocacy towards the UK Government.

  • Collaborates with Gender Action for Peace and Security.

Co-chairs

Megan Daigle, ODI

Niki Ignatiou, ActionAid UK

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Working Groups are open to all members. You can join as many groups as you wish.

To join the Humanitarian Working Group, or find out more, email coordinator@gadnetwork.org (specify Humanitarian Working Group).

About the issue

Learn about women and girls in humanitarian settings and see resources from GADN members and others.


Humanitarian Working Group resources

Featured
Gender in Humanitarian Action: Recommendations for UK FCDO

December 2024

Briefing: Targeting the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), this briefing explores recommendations for more gender-responsive humanitarian engagement, covering suggestions around leadership and approaches, funding modalities as well as civil society partnerships and engagement.

Where next for feminist foreign policy on humanitarian response?

June 2024

Briefing: This briefing examines how states that have feminist foreign policies (FFPs) or whose foreign policies are inspired by feminist ambitions can meaningfully apply feminist approaches to humanitarian action, which is a sub-sector of foreign policy that has received comparatively little attention in FFP debates thus far.

Humanitarians and the Women, Peace and Security agenda during Covid 19

December 2021

Briefing: The Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda’s call to transform crisis response is more important than ever – for peacebuilding and for humanitarian response. As we set the agenda beyond 2021, the UK should make WPS a foundational part of gender-responsive humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery in the wake of Covid-19.

This briefing was produced by the GADN Humanitarian Working Group in collaboration with the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS UK), Fe-Male, the Gender Equality Network and the Gender Violence Recovery Centre.

VAWG and Humanitarian working groups provide evidence to Lords Sexual Violence in Conflict Committee

March 2016

The VAWG and Humanitarian Working Groups submitted written evidence for a House of Lords’ Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict Inquiry. The submission addresses the causes of sexual violence in conflict (SVC), prevention of SVC, the needs of survivors of SVC, women’s participation and accountability for SVC.

Supporting Syria and the Region 2016 Conference

February 2016

GADN recommendations: As the UK co-hosted the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference 2016, GADN called on the Government to ensure that the rights and needs of women and girls are prioritised in line Women, Peace and Security commitments and international humanitarian law. Written in partnership with Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS).

UNGA Review Event on the Call to Action on Violence against Women and Girls in Emergencies

September 2014

This briefing discusses how all donors and humanitarian actors participating in the Call to Action can take further steps to translate high level commitments to change on the ground, with the ultimate goal of improving the life, safety, dignity and resilience of women, girls and GBV survivors in current emergencies, including survivors of harmful practices like such as early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).

📷 GADN members question DFID staff at a Members Meeting (November 2018)