Making Progress Visible

What is the humanitarian need being addressed?

An estimated one-in-three women and girls experience GBV, and the risk often increases in a humanitarian setting. There are inter-agency standards in place to establish a common understanding of what constitutes ‘minimum’ GBV prevention and response programming in emergencies. These standards also support good practice in GBV programming, but there are barriers preventing humanitarian agencies from measuring their progress towards achieving the GBV minimum standards.

What is the innovative solution?

The Making Progress Visible project improves the usability of the minimum standards indicators. It enables humanitarian agencies to easily see gaps in their service provision, skills shortages and other problems that hinder their ability to prevent and respond to GBV effectively. The innovation comprises M&;E tools developed through a human-centred design process. Also, a global M&;E framework for the GBV minimum standards to guide the global humanitarian community. The innovation enables organisations to collect data on GBV to help them understand the effects of their programming.

By making a standard framework of existing guidance and M&;E tools available to the GBV humanitarian community, the innovation team is facilitating more cross-organisation information-sharing, standardised data analysis, and a comprehensive understanding of progress across the GBV sector. Better understanding of the effectiveness of the programming equips the GBV community to improve the lives of people impacted by crisis.

What progress has been made?

During its pilot phase in South Sudan the innovation produced valuable insights that are helping improve programming. The tools tracked psychosocial coping capacity and attendance in both psychosocial support and life skills sessions, as well as GBV case workers’ knowledge, skills and attitudes. Humanitarian staff became equipped to plan appropriately for persons of diverse groups within their programming. And space was opened up for interaction with women and girls so that progress towards GBV minimum standards could be monitored and gaps identified for future improvement.

The innovation was presented at the 2022 SVRI Forum. In Myanmar, sections of the M&;E Framework have been translated into Burmese to promote uptake and dissemination.

Innovation potential

The innovation team is looking to expand the use of the M&;E Framework and tools through its relevant GBV subclusters, identifying further dissemination opportunities along the way. There is great potential to capture the attention of the wider GBV community and to embed the innovation in programming for the benefit of women and girls who experience, or are at risk of, GBV. The team is also building its partnership network to continue the development of new tools by and for local, frontline service providers.

[.slimline-cta-box][.slimline-cta_heading]Links to more information[.slimline-cta_heading][.slimline-cta_paragraph]The Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender-based Violence in Emergencies Programming: Monitoring and Evaluation Framework 2023

Estándares Mínimos interagenciales para la Programación sobre Violencia Basada en Género en Emergencias: Marco de Monitoreo Y Evaluacion

Normes minimales pour les interorganisations pour la programmation d’actions de lutte contre la violence basée sur le genre dans les situations d’urgence: Cadre de Suivi et d’Évaluation[.slimline-cta_paragraph][.slimline-cta-box]

Feature Photo Caption: Data collectors working with data collection tools. Credit: The Global Women's Institute.