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Gender Assessment and Needs Analysis in the Context of the South Sudan Humanitarian Crisis

Authored by: Inter-Agency Standing Committee

Categories: Humanitarian Emergencies, Violent Conflict
Sub-Categories: Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Country: South Sudan
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2014
Citation: Gender Assessment and Needs Analysis in the Context of the South Sudan Humanitarian Crisis. Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2014.

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Executive Summary

This gender assessment is informed by the fact that women, men, girls and boys experience conflict-related crises differently. As a result their respective responsibilities and priorities are often different. Understanding how gender roles, power relations between women and men, and the positioning of women and girls determine women and men’s experiences of conflict, their coping methods, and needs. Appreciation of this reality is key to the design and implementation of gender responsive and rights-based humanitarian action. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), a forum for coordination and policy making for UN and non-UN humanitarian actors explains that in crisis situations, mainstreaming a gender focus from the outset.