Gender-Based Violence Guidelines

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IASCInter-Agency Standing CommitteeChild ProtectionEducationHealthHousing, Land and PropertyHumanitarian Mine ActionLivelihoodsNutritionProtectionShel ter, Settlement and RecoveryWater, Sanitation and HygieneHumanitarian Operations Support SectorsGuidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action Camp Coordination and Camp ManagementFood Security and AgricultureReducing risk, promoting resilience and aiding recoveryIASCInter-Agency Standing Committee< > < > Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action Reducing risk, promoting resilience and aiding recoveryThe Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) is a global-level forum for coordination on GBV in humanitarian settings. The group brings together NGOs, United Nations agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring more predictable, accountable and effective prevention of and response to GBV in settings affected by emergencies.

gender-based violence—intimate partner violence, child marriage and female genital mutilation—are also being committed with disturbing frequency. Natural disasters and other emergencies exacerbate the violence and diminish means of protection. And gender-based violence not only violates and traumatizes its survivors, it

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