Gender Hub (Last updated on: 06 Oct 2021)
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Since the height of the crisis in August 2017, almost a million Rohingya people have sought refuge in Cox’s Bazar, creating the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world. From the onset, the nature of this crisis has been a particularly gendered one. Women and girls, who make up more than half of the refugee population, face higher risks of abuse, exploitation and violence. The Senior Executive Group is committed to ensuring gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the humanitarian response. To that end, and to address the particular challenges of this gendered crisis, UN Women, with funds from Global Affairs Canada, has launched the Gender Hub in March 2019. The Gender Hub sits with the Inter-Sector Coordination Group, a strategic place that allows it to better collaborate and influence all sectors.
What is the Gender Hub?
The purpose of the Gender Hub is to strengthen the accountability of humanitarian actors for gender equality and empowerment of women and girls from Rohingya refugees and host communities. To do so, the Gender Hub will support all actors, including local agencies and government, to plan, program and implement the humanitarian response in a gender and diversity sensitive and responsive way.
The Gender Hub ensures robust integration and collaboration with protection, GBV and PSEA sectors and experts to build on the existing evidence, interventions, analysis and guidance from other related sectors. All work and materials will be in line with the IASC Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Humanitarian Action and the Accountability Framework.
What does the Gender Hub do?
The Gender Hub provides three types of services to humanitarian actors:
- Technical Assistance - increase access to gender-related technical guidance and support at a strategic level. This includes providing sound technical advice and hands-on support to different sectors, government and humanitarian agencies on better integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment in their strategies and plans.
- Capacity Development - consolidate and standardize training modules and facilitating a series of context specific gender training courses and different learning initiatives.
- Knowledge Management – collect, synthesize and share knowledge and good practices on gender-responsive humanitarian interventions. The Gender Hub will strengthen the evidence- base for designing gender responsive interventions, and adapt gender related guidance notes or tools to meet any knowledge gaps.
Capacity Building
Analysis and Assessments
- Gender Alert on Fire in Kutupalong and Balikhali Camps
- Intersectional Gender Analysis Cox's Bazar (October 2020)
- Sector Briefs - In the Shadows of the Pandemic: The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 On Rohingya and Host Communities
- Sector Briefs - In the Shadows of the Pandemic: The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 On Rohingya and Host Communities
Advocacy
- International Women’s Day 2021: Empowering women and girls is essential for an equal and sustainable COVID-19 recovery in the Rohingya response in Cox’s Bazar
- Advocacy Brief on Women Peace and Security in Rohingya Response in Cox's Bazar (October 2020)
- Support us in responding to humanitarian crises, female activists in Bangladesh say - 24/09/2020 [EN]
- World Refugee Day - GiHA WG Advocacy Brief
- Rohingya Women Speak Up About COVID-19
- Gender Equality Commitments endorsed by the SEG co-chairs
Contact
Maria Teresa Dico-Young
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
Gender Hub Head
maria.young@unwomen.org
Tahmina Rahman
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
National Gender and Capacity Development Specialist
tahmina.rahman@unwomen.org