Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Gender and Crisis

Click here for a full version of the slideshow	UNDP recognizes gender equality as a core goal of human development, and promotes it through gender mainstreaming. In 2005, the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) commissioned an in-depth gender review of its operations that highlighted gaps and opportunities for UNDP’s work in crisis prevention and recovery. In 2006, BCPR convened a Gender Experts Meeting and Strategy Session that brought together academics, development practitioners, representatives from non-governmental organizations and other UNDP partners to agree on an approach for BCPR to make a significant contribution to gender equality. The meeting resulted in UNDP's Eight Point Agenda for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Crisis Prevention and Recovery. In 2008, BCPR called for 10 million USD to help women and girls in crisis for the next two years. The funding is vital to scale up the groundbreaking new strategy that addresses the needs of women affected by conflict and natural disasters.

Listen to Kathleen Cravero, Director of the Crisis Bureau, on Women and Girls in Crisis	Key statistics on Women in Crisis Learn about the Eight Point Agenda for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality Read 'A Letter to the Members of the UN Security Council' by Kathleen Cravero on women and security, published in the International Herald Tribune Donor proposal on Women and Girls in Crisis (pdf)

Country Focus: Côte d’Ivoire Country Focus: Kenya Other country examples of the Eight Point Agenda in action Gender in the DRC, 2007 Conflict Prevention and Gender, 2007 Ensuring the Inclusion of Women in Conflict Prevention, 2007 Gender and Mine Action, 2007 Recent initiatives on gender and crisis In partnership with UNIFEM, UNDP is working to produce a guidance note on gender-sensitive conflict analysis. UNDP is working with UNIFEM, UNFPA, and UNICEF to start a joint initiative on prevention and response to sexual violence in crisis situations. For more information on this initiative please go to United Nations Inter-Agency website Stop Rape Now. In partnership with the UN Steering Committee on Gender and Mine Action, UNDP works to promote the implementation of the UN Mine Action Guidelines. In collaboration with UNIFEM and the UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations , UNDP is reviewing experiences of gender-sensitive policing to produce UN system-wide guidance. Building on the UN Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Standards and its module on gender, UNDP plans to develop a strategy to further integrate a gender perspective into programmes on disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of ex-combatants. Other relevant documents Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War, Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 7 October 2007 Women Left for Dead and the Man Who’s Saving Them, Eve Ensler, Glamour magazine, August 2007 The Shame of War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls, OCHA/IRIN, 2007 Can Conflict Analysis Processes Support Gendered Visions of Peacebuilding? Reflections from the Peace and Stability Development Analysis in Fiji, 2006 (pdf)