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Good Practice Guide

Brief 2: Effective Responses for Gender Based Violence: Gender Based Violence in Schools.

Brief 3: Effective Responses for Gender Based Violence: Engaging Men to end GBV.

Brief 4: Keeping Gender on the Agenda.

Brief 5: Effective Response to Gender Based Violence: MDG 1 (Poverty & Hunger) and GBV.

Brief 6: Addressing Men & Boys to Address Gender Based Violence.

Brief 7: Addressing GBV in Post-Conflict & Fragile States: A Case Study of Sierra Leone.

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Issues Paper: Keeping Gender on the Agenda: Gender Based Violence, Poverty and Development

This report highlights key messages arising from a one-day conference on Women, Peace and Conflict, hosted by the Irish Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence held in Dublin on 17th November, 2008.

The focus of the Conference was to explore how implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 can address the impact of armed conflict on women and ensure that women are central to conflict prevention, peacekeeping, conflict resolution and peace-building.

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Women, Peace and Conflict: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325

This report built on the work of INSTRAW (2005), the experience of other countries, consulted with with Irish domestic organisations and uniquely charts out a consultative process for the development of an Irish National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325.

The report confirms that existing NAPs have made a difference in advancing gender equality persepctives in foreign, security and development cooperation policies and are considered to be key tools in the implementation of such policies.

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Stepping up Ireland’s response to women, peace and security: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325

Gender Based Violence: a Failure to Protect, a Challenge to Action

The purpose of the publication is to provide more detailed guidance to organisations on how to go about institutionalising appropriate responses to GBV. The guidance note makes recommendations in relation to specific aspects of this process such as: the development of internal policies and strategies on GBV prevention and response; the establishment and enforcement of standards of behaviour; the allocation of responsibility within an organisation for GBV and the building of staff capacity on the issue.

In addition, recommendations are made in relation to: the integration of GBV into the programming cycle; the inclusion of GBV in organisational meetings and events; and the application of lessons from HIV/AIDS and gender mainstreaming to institutionalisation of GBV. Finally, the guidance note provides details of additional resources such as: relevant research; training and other manuals; and useful websites.

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Gender Based Violence: Ireland Responding

The group initially commissioned research to examine international practice and to develop a framework that could be applied by all organisations to areas such as policy, operations and allocation of resources (see Gender Based Violence Study). This was followed in 2005 by a publication entitled ‘Gender Based Violence: A Failure to Protect, A Challenge to Action’. In this publication, significant findings of the earlier study are outlined and 6 key interventions that organisations can undertake to address GBV are identified.

The 6 key interventions are:

1. Institutionalise GBV responses at organisational level
2. Support GBV programming – understand the context
3. Make prevention and protection central to programming
4. Improve service delivery: responding to GBV
5. Engage with civil society
6. Co-ordinate and collaborate with partners/other agencies.

Further, the publication highlights particular issues to be considered within each of the interventions and specific actions to be undertaken toward their achievement.

The GBV Consortium continues to use these 6 areas of intervention as a reference point in its own work.

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GBV: A Failure to Protect, A Challenge to Action (.pdf, 3700kb)

The overall purpose of the study was to contribute to the development of the institutional capacity of Irish development, humanitarian and human rights organisations to respond to gender based violence, particularly in conflict environments. The main objective was to propose a framework of best practice that could be used by organisations when they encountered some of the serious human rights violations associated with GBV.

The study: outlines key concepts and definitions; examines GBV both as a weapon of war and in the context of wider structural gender inequality; and highlights the relevance of GBV to human rights law and international conventions such as the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. In addition to presenting a model of good practice, the study outlines the GBV related policies and practices of the members of the Consortium at the time and the policies and practices of some key international agencies such as Oxfam and Save the Children (U.K.).

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Gender Based Violence Study: Final Report and Appendices