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Toolkit for Optimizing Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence: Mainstreaming GBV considerations in CBIs and utilizing cash in GBV response
The Toolkit for Optimizing Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence: Mainstreaming GBV Considerations in CBIs and Utilizing Cash in GBV Response aims to assist GBV and cash practitioners in: collecting situational protection inf
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Disability Inclusion in Psychosocial Support Programs in Lebanon: Guidance for psychosocial support facilitators
Disability Inclusion in Psychosocial Support Programs in Lebanon: Guidance for Psychosocial Support Facilitators is designed to support PSS Facilitators to strengthen inclusion of children and adolescents with disabilities in a range of PSS activities, i
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"It's Happening to our Men as Well": Sexual violence against Rohingya men and boys
The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) conducted an exploratory qualitative study to examine the nature and characteristics of sexual violence perpetrated against Rohingya men and boys in Myanmar and in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh, and to evaluate male
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Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Case management of survivors & at-risk women, children and youth with disabilities
This resource is a product of a partnership project between the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and UNICEF Lebanon entitled “Strengthening child protection and gender-based violence prevention and response for women, children, and youth with disabilities
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Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Outreach, safe identification, and referral of women, children and youth with disabilities
This resource is a product of a partnership project between the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and UNICEF Lebanon entitled “Strengthening child protection and gender-based violence prevention and response for women, children, and youth with disabilities
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Engaging Male Caregivers to End Early Marriage in Lebanon: Training modules to accompany programs with adolescent girls
The Danish Refugee Council Lebanon (DRC Lebanon) and the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) identified a gap in their programming for, and with, adolescent girls. During the initial phase of implementing tailored “safe space” programming for different group
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Vulnerability- and Resilience-based Approaches in Response to the Syrian Crisis: Implications for women, children and youth with disabilities
Vulnerability criteria, particularly in the earlier years of the Syrian-crisis response, received a lot of focus and attention by humanitarian actors as a method of targeting assistance. Persons with disabilities, an estimated 20 percent of the refugee po
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Family Planning Saves Lives and Promotes Resilience in Humanitarian Contexts
Inaccessibility to Family Planning in crisis situations is something that affects over 32.15 million women and girls around the world. It is a preventative measure to address disease, early pregnancies, and other life-threatening conditions. Although glob
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Gender-Based Violence Against Children and Youth with Disabilities: A toolkit for child protection actors
Studies suggest that children with disabilities are at a greater risk of experiencing physical and sexual violence than children without disabilities. They may be hidden in communities due to stigma and discrimination and excluded from school and other ed
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A Girl No More: The changing norms of child marriage in conflict
Led by the Women’s Refugee Council, this publication presents research begun in 2011 to document factors that promote and mitigate child marriage during conflict and displacement. These findings were used to generate recommendations to reduce the vulnerab
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Outcomes for Children from Household Economic Strengthening Interventions: A research synthesis
Traditionally, Economic Strengthening (ES) programmes have focused on the head of the household and were designed on the assumption that any benefits would trickle down to other members of the household including children. Despite this assumption, the imp
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Young and Astray: An assessment of factors driving the movement of unaccompanied children and adolescents from Eritrea into Ethiopia, Sudan and beyond
For more than four decades, the northeast African state of Eritrea has faced complex challenges, including war, internal conflict, political resistance and prolonged economic strife. As a result, a significant number of Eritreans have left the country, ei