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What Works(2023) refugee women-led organisations on the frontline of addressing GBV: key actions for the global refugee forum, social development direct.

This policy brief summarises the pivotal role that refugee WLOs play in preventing and responding to GBV, as well as the systemic barriers they face. It aims to support specific and actionable pledges at the Global Refugee Forum. The insights are based on interviews with refugee WLOs in Kenya, Ukraine, South Sudan, Rwanda, Romania and Jordan, global organisations supporting refugee WLOs, and refugee leaders working with refugee women and youth networks. The brief also draws on a rapid desk review of the evidence.

Caitlin Sturridge, Fran Girling-Morris, Alexandra Spencer, Andhira Kara and Carina Chicet (2023) .

Refugee-led organisations (RLOs) are not being given the funding and, by extension, the recognition and influence, they need and deserve. This is symptomatic of a wider failure to localise humanitarian funding. In 2022, just 1.2% ($485 million) of total international humanitarian funding reached local actors directly (DI, 2023). The proportion of funding allocated to RLOs specifically is even smaller. Though more difficult to track, our research was able to identify just $26.4 million of humanitarian and development funding that reached RLOs in 2022. A similar picture emerged from research tracking funding for the Syrian refugee response in Türkiye, which found that RLOs received just  $4.5 million (equivalent to 0.15% of total international funding in 2019 and 2020) (DI, 2022a).

is an analytical tool used to support the development of responsive and inclusive policies, programs, and other initiatives. GBA Plus is a process for understanding who is impacted by the issue or opportunity being addressed by the initiative; identifying how the initiative could be tailored to meet the diverse needs of the people most impacted, and anticipating and mitigating any barriers to accessing or benefitting from the initiative. GBA Plus is an intersectional analysis that goes beyond biological (sex) and socio-cultural (gender) differences to consider other factors, such as age, disability, education, ethnicity, economic status, geography (including rurality), language, race, religion, and sexual orientation.

Using GBA Plus involves taking a gender- and diversity-sensitive approach to our work. Considering all intersecting identity factors as part of GBA Plus, not only sex and gender, is a Government of Canada commitment.

The IRC’s EMAP approach provides detailed guidance for accountable practice to ensure women’s leadership within primary prevention intervention efforts. The EMAP Guidance Package is intended to introduce practitioners to the model, key concepts, and guiding principles of the EMAP approach which engages men in the prevention of gender-based violence against women and girls.