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1 SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED . VIOLENCE ( sgbv ) PREVENTION, RISK MITIGATION AND RESPONSE. Promising practices See these publications for additional UNHCR. and partner promising practise related to gender equality: gender EQUALITY. PROMISING PRACTICES. SYRIAN REFUGEES IN THE. MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. gender Equality Promising Practices Syrian Refugees in MENA . LEARNING FROM. EXPERIENCE TO ADVANCE. gender EQUALITY. Promising practices in Asia Learning from Experience to Advance gender Equality Promising Practices in Asia . The development of this guide was made possible with support from the US BPRM.

2 Safe from the Start Initiative on protection from SEXUAL and GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE in emergencies. This document is for general distribution. All rights reserved. Reproductions and translations are authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, December 2019. Cover photo: Schoolgirls traverse the muddy streets in the market in the Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab UNHCR/Sebastian Rich Layout & design: BakOS DESIGN. CONTENTS. 3. 4. Overview and 5. Introduction and 5.

3 Recognizing a promising 5. 6. 6. Reducing the risk of exposure to sgbv affecting refugee women artisans, through increasing livelihoods opportunities and skills while fostering self-reliance and empowerment, in Mtendeli, 8. Reducing VIOLENCE against women and girls using SASA!, an evidence-informed community mobilisation prevention approach, in Adjumani, 18. Kenya and 32. Reducing VIOLENCE against women and girls by engaging men in accountable practices (EMAP), in Dadaab, 36. Reducing VIOLENCE against women and girls by engaging men in accountable practices (EMAP), in Qushtapa, 44.

4 RELEVANT 53. 3. ACRONYMS. AAC Artisan advisory committee IPV Intimate partner VIOLENCE ACORD Agency for Cooperation on and IRC International Rescue Committee Research in Development ISIL The Islamic State of Iraq and the AGD Age, gender and diversity Levant AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency KRCS Kenya Red Cross Society Syndrome LWF Lutheran World Federation ARC American Refugee Committee now OPM Office of the Prime Minister (Uganda). known as Alight PoC Person of concern BCF Barzany Charity Foundation PSN Person/s with specific needs CA Community activist/s RCK Refugee Consortium of Kenya CAG Community Action Group SASA Start, Awareness, Support.

5 Action CEDOVIP Centre for Domestic VIOLENCE Prevention sgbv SEXUAL and GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE DCVAW Department of Combating VIOLENCE TdH Terre des Hommes Against Women ToT Training of trainers DRC Danish Refugee Council TPO Transcultural Psychosocial DRC The Democratic Republic of the Congo Organization EASE Economic and social empowerment to UNDP United Nations Development reduce VIOLENCE against women Programme EMAP Engaging men in accountable practices UNFPA United Nations Population Fund FAQ Frequently asked questions UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees GBV GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund GBVIMS GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE information management system VSLA Village savings and loans associations GNT Good Neighbors Tanzania WCC War Child Canada GoK Government of Kenya WPE Women's protection and empowerment HIV Human immunodeficiency virus 4 PROMISING PRACTICES.

6 OVERVIEW AND METHODOLOGY. Introduction and rationale The summaries collected here are the first instalment in a process that UNHCR plans to SEXUAL and GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ( sgbv ) is undertake regularly to build documentation, a violation of human rights that denies the results and evidence, as well as to recognize and human dignity of the individual and hurts inspire. It also aims to complement the published human development. The United Nations High volumes of gender Equality Promising Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is committed It is important to note that some of the practices to ending all forms of sgbv .

7 Across all operations, contained here are already well established in UNHCR employs a range of programming measures various contexts; this documentation sought to to prevent, mitigate and respond to sgbv . identify the unique aspects of their adaptation and replication in a humanitarian context. Documenting promising practices on sgbv . prevention, risk mitigation and response means creating a record of what works, when it works and how it works, thus contributing to a process Recognizing a promising practice of learning, knowledge development and sharing that is beneficial for the whole organization and For the purpose of this documentation a promising the wider community of practitioners.

8 A promising practice is defined as a practice that is relevant and practice facilitates learning by generating lessons effective and has protective and/or transformative that are relevant for dissemination and by providing potential2 for sgbv survivors and persons at-risk knowledge to inform the broader thinking about of sgbv , as well as for the wider community, as sgbv prevention, risk mitigation and response. demonstrated by quality and reliable results. It is a successful experience and practice that can UNHCR regularly collects practices from the field include a project, a process of one or more steps, for the following reasons: a programme or a tool3 that has been tested and validated and deserves to be to develop and share results across operations, locations, and among practitioners.

9 To account for the diverse ways of adapting and working on prevention, risk mitigation and response;. to enhance learning and accountability;. to continuously work towards increasing quality documentation of practices from the field. 1. UNHCR gender Equality Promising Practices: and 2. Having a transformative effect or the potential to be transformative means focusing on and changing the underlying conditions that led or contributed to sgbv . In other words, those practices considered promising are the ones that aimed to have a transformative effect on the structural inequalities or conditions that made sgbv possible.

10 Protective potential also refers to addressing risks and realization of rights. 3. Examples of tools are training modules, guidelines, programme models, etc.; while examples of promising practices at the process level could include the adoption of an inclusive, participatory approach vis- -vis at-risk sub-groups such as young people, elderly people, persons with disabilities and so on, in line with the 2018 UNHCR Policy on Age, gender and Diversity. 4. It is important to note that there is no globally agreed definition of a promising practice in this field.