Community of Practice - Gender

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Gender

The Friends of Gender Group, relaunched as the Grand Bargain Community of Practice on Gender. The group, which includes members of all constituencies, donors, UN agencies, representatives of INGOs and national and local CSOs, especially women-led organisations, will continue to work together to ensure that the Grand Bargain contributes to achieving gender equality and the empowerment and protection of women, girls and gender-diverse people experiencing humanitarian crisis, through systematically inclusive humanitarian action. 

In June 2023, representatives of local women’s rights organisations were appointed as co-Chairs of the group, ensuring that work is led by frontline, local women leaders, championing Grand Bargain commitments to localisation and meaningful participation in practice. Since then, the group has taken time to re-organise but is now ready to accelerate its work. Amongst other achievements, the group’s collective contributions to the revision of the annual self-reporting indicators, has helped to secure the inclusion of funding to WLOs as a mandatory (as opposed to voluntary up to now) data point in the new Grand Bargain annual self-reporting format, significantly strengthening accountability on gender. The COP welcomes new members to the Grand Bargain Community of Practice on Gender. Please contact the Co-Chairs by emailing contact@feministhumanitariannetwork.org