Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG): Disaster Risk Management brief second edition

This brief, updating the previous disaster risk managemen (DRM) brief published in 2015, contains guidance on ethics and safety; resources for conducting a rapid situation analysis; specific ideas for implementation of policies and programs at the institutional, sectoral, and community levels at three stages (before, during and after the emergency); detailed examples of promising practices with a menu of indicators for use in monitoring and evaluation; and several active links to more-detailed resources and toolkits for working at the intersection of DRM and Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG).

Disaster risk management projects can include VAWG prevention and response interventions and actions at different levels of engagement while leveraging cross-sectoral collaboration and building strategic partnerships with specialized international organizations and civil society organizations to achieve the desired results:

• At the policy level, projects can comprehensively address prevention of and response to VAWG in DRM policies and plans and establish multi-sectoral coordination systems between disaster management, law enforcement, health authorities, and other relevant entities.
• At the institutional level, before a disaster occurs, projects could strengthen existing protocols, guidelines, and training to include actions to respond to VAWG during the emergency and the recovery phase.
• At the community level, projects can systematically include VAWG in disaster training, and conduct outreach activities focusing on women and girls in camps and settlements to raise awareness of the risk of violence.